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Congress Is Considering a Tax Bill That Doesn’t Restore the Expired Charitable Deduction. Let’s Change That.

Momentum Nonprofit Partners

ACTION ALERT On January 16, the chairs of the House and Senate tax committees announced a bill that includes series of tax breaks for families, businesses, and individuals, but that does not yet include restoration of the non-itemizer (universal) charitable deduction. billion over ten years, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.

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2023 Legislative Session: A Recap

MNA Association

We successfully testified against six attempts to tax nonprofits, including property taxation of all healthcare organizations, unique taxes on nonprofit agricultural land, and the most perplexing of all, a bill that would charge unrelated business income tax on certain litigation expenses. Sadly, we saw more of this in 2023.

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Of Myths and Markets: Moving Beyond the Capitalist God That Failed Us

NonProfit Quarterly

One, by Kevin Musgrave , a Southeast Missouri State University communications professor cited above, focuses on attempts to fuse economic and religious thought. But NAM and its allies had considerable influence—and reach—within institutions (universities, churches, and corporations, among them) and the public.

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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. University of Montana student intern Jorgia Hawthorne. MNA’s 2023 Policy Team: Executive Director Liz Moore. Membership Manager Tylyn Newcomb.

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How to Lower the ‘Cost’ of Philanthropy So Your Supporters Donate Major Gifts of Assets

iMarketSmart

Laura Hansen Dean is Senior Director – Gift Design and Documentation at the University of Texas at Austin. [2] 2] Adapted from conversations with Byron Kennedy, Vice President for University Advancement at Texas Tech University. [3] University of Zurich. 3] James, R. Version 5.1. Createspace Independent Publishing.

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How to Restore Community Economies: Reestablishing the Right to Associate

NonProfit Quarterly

These restrictions are the result of policy shifts that have quietly undermined the right to associate In principle, people in the United States have this right—Article 20 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that all people should be able to freely form associations to meet their collective needs.

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Finally, the questions you should ask that have been proven to lead to gifts from wealth

iMarketSmart

Visual planned giving: An introduction to the law and taxation of charitable gift planning. in red font and included a cartoon devil logo”) worked better than a neutral header (“Survey of Student Behaviors”) which worked better than a formal header (“Carnegie Mellon University Executive Council Survey on Ethical Behaviors”). [13]