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Drivers Cooperative-Colorado: Building a Social Co-op for Rideshare Drivers

NonProfit Quarterly

To advance this work, DCC has provided a series of training sessions for members, teaching skills for how to reach out to various governmental and nonprofit organizations. Despite this, de facto social cooperatives in the United States are proliferating.

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How Nonprofits Can Navigate Political Engagement and Maintain Public Trust

NonProfit Quarterly

Establish and affiliate with a 501c4 organization that, under federal tax law, is not subject to a public charity’s lobbying limits and can engage in political campaign intervention so long as it is not its primary activity. See Regan v.

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Understanding Unrelated Business Income in Nonprofits

The Charity CFO

If you know only one thing about 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations , you probably know that they don’t pay federal taxes on their income. . However, as detailed in Publication 598 of the Internal Revenue Service, income not directly related to their declared charitable purpose is subject to federal taxation.

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2023 Montana Legislature: Week Two

MNA Association

MNA watches bills related to the nonprofit sector generally including Appropriations, Taxation, Charitable Giving, Workforce, Voting/Elections/Ballot Initiatives, Campaign Finance, and Lobbying. Thank you to the 137 organizations that participated in that survey, allowing us to come before legislators confidently on your behalf.

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2023 Montana Legislature: Week One

MNA Association

MNA’s primary focus is on bills related to the nonprofit sector generally including Appropriations, Taxation, Ballot initiatives, Voting/Elections, Campaign Finance, and Lobbying. Nonprofit Day at the Capitol. We are still sorting through the more than 4400 bill draft requests, of which just 336 have been introduced.

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Will Their Flag Decals Get Them Into Heaven? *

The Agitator

The last thing America needs is to pollute our churches and other nonprofit organizations with tax-deductible, partisan politics. Under current law political donors to ‘independent’ political action committees can give unlimited amounts of campaign money, but they cannot take a charitable tax deduction. Sincerely, Roger.

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5 Actionable Ways to Prevent Profit Leaks

NonProfit Hub

It can be difficult for nonprofits to promote growth if their leaders are constantly bogged down by workforce management issues like compensation for paid workers versus volunteers or maintaining tax-exempt status with the IRS. A few methods can help managers evaluate current HR processes to see where profit leaks are occurring.