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What a difference a week makes. Last week, the news media focused on the minutiae of the primary-election horse race. This week, Americans have been…
If you’re confused by the seemingly endless stream of budget battles in Congress, including the most recent spending act, you’re not alone. The Congr…
Now that we’re in full-swing presidential-election season, the absolute ban in section 501(c)(3) on political campaign activities moves to center stag…
Last year, in Food, Faith, and Fair Labor Standards, we reported on a wage-and-hour lawsuit involving a church’s battle with the U.S. Department of La…
Giving generously to favorite charitable causes is a long tradition in American culture. Each year, donors in the United States contribute hundreds of…
Even well-meaning legislators and regulators can get it wrong. They see a fly hovering over the apple pie on the Memorial Day picnic table and try to…
An intriguing story bubbled up in the third week of January 2018 to grab some space in the New York Times and other important news outlets. “Trouble […
A recent federal court ruling in Texas is an important reminder that nonprofits must pay careful attention not only to the laws directly affecting the…
California charities and trustees know that there are multiple government agencies poking around in their affairs. We explained in “Say What? We’re Mo…
There are several recent developments of interest for tax-exempt churches and religious institutions. Johnson Amendment In December’s whirlwind att…
“The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the finances of a broad swath of the nonprofit sector,” we wrote last summer in Diverting Restricted Funds…
It was late last year at the 2023 White House Tribal Summit. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) happily announced the long-awaited…
“If you’re in the nonprofit world, chances are you’ve been affected by founder’s syndrome, even if you didn’t know the name for it.” See Ten Steps to…
Part of the New Year’s recommended checkup for each nonprofit is a review of existing governance policies and a plan to adopt ones that are missing. A…
Prestigious universities around the nation are facing a new legal challenge related to how they administer employee retirement plans. In August 2016,…
There have been cyber attacks for as long as there’s been an internet. Experts have long run around with their hair on fire to warn all of us about th…
Over two years ago, as Governor Gavin Newsom approved AB 488, the nation’s first-of-its-kind charitable-crowdfunding law, the head of the California A…
“The COVID-19 crisis has created a moment of hyper-uncertainty for social sector organizations. No one knows how the future will unfold…” write the le…
In the hundred years or so since the modern federal income tax was first established in 1913, there have been several comprehensive overhauls. Congres…
Behest: (12th century England) 1. An authoritative order, command 2. An urgent prompting One imagines Sir Guy of Gisborne galloping through the Not…
The donor-advised fund (DAF), a charitable-giving format which has been around for many decades, has been surging in popularity for several years. But…
“There’s no denying 2017 was the year for cryptocurrencies,” writes a company that trades in one such product called “Stellar”: So many of these inn…
Violence is the second highest category of workplace injury. While nonprofits “… are working to help society, they are not immune to the danger of vio…
Starting fresh each January 1st, most of us adopt the same New Year’s resolutions that we had abandoned – unfulfilled – the year before. As we’ve post…
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last two or three years, you know there’s an entirely new way to raise money: online crowdfunding. It’s…
Toiling in relative obscurity over decades, waves of diligent IRS Exempt Organizations (EO) specialists churned out an impressive library of “research…
Late last week, in the third post of our four-part series on Charity Fraud Awareness Week 2023 (November 27 – December 1), we reviewed the just-relea…
California’s legislative schedule is set up in a way that each summer there is a rush of activity to get bills passed by the end-of-summer deadline. F…
Two weeks ago, in Urgent Action Needed on PSLF Program (August 9, 2022), we posted an interim update on the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. A…
Our colleague and friend, Professor Brian Mittendorf, Ph.D, CPA, has important thoughts and cautionary advice on the widespread use by nonprofits of t…
In Rage Giving: What’s the Formula For Success?, we described an example of this phenomenon following the tumultuous 2016 presidential election that r…
“Our readership isn’t easily pigeonholed into one or another narrow audience category,” we wrote just after New Year’s Eve as we named our favorite p…
Back in early March 2018, we posted The EU Data-Privacy Law That May Affect U.S. Nonprofits (GDPR) to alert readers of a set of rules in the European…
There’s more news on the hotdogs-and-beer fraud perpetrated by a charity imposter at Petco Park. See Some Charity Fraud With With Your Hotdog, Sir? (S…
Headquartered in suburban Baltimore, the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is one of the nation’s largest private charitable foundations with ann…
In early May 2021, the San Diego nonprofit community was rocked by disturbing allegations about one of the region’s prominent social-services agencies…
“When a storm subsides,” visionary commentator Rebecca Solnit reminded us three years ago in the earliest days of the pandemic tempest, “the air is wa…
For many nonprofit organizations that operate on a calendar fiscal year, the due date for the annual Form 990, Return of Organization Exempt From Inco…
The “… troubled student debt relief program for teachers, police officers and other public service [and nonprofit-organization] workers will soon get…
The recent federal government closure was the longest in U.S. history, causing incalculable pain, financial and otherwise, most directly to the worker…
At long last, the philanthropy community in the United States has its own comprehensive compendium of law. Upon the culmination of a multi-year projec…
Major scandals at two prominent nonprofit medical institutions erupted in the fall of 2018, capping an already tough year that had seen “an endless st…
There’s so much governmental action – (or inaction, when action is necessary) directly or indirectly affecting the nonprofit sector and charitable ben…
Sadly, you don’t have to look very hard to find examples of illegal, improper, and unethical behavior in the nonprofit sector. There’s no need to crea…
For the nonprofit community, an important hashtag to keep an eye on is “FixTheForm.” It’s a self-described “scrappy grassroots international movement…
There’s no such thing as a quick and easy merger. That was a key takeaway from our recent post: A Look At Two Pandemic-Era Nonprofit Mergers (August 2…
[7/2/19 Update: Multiple sources including the New York Times confirming that the government has sent the Census forms to the printer without the citi…
In recent years, the social enterprise model of business “with conscience” has been springing up all around the world. In “Social Enterprises: A Revo…
“The biblical story of David and Goliath is probably the most well-known underdog story in the world. * * * For 3000 years, [it] has seeped into our c…
Several months ago, we posted a four-part series on options available to nonprofits searching for ways to ride out the COVID-19 crisis. Titled Nonprof…