It’s been a week since the bombshell admission by IRS Exempt Organizations (EO) Director Lois Lerner that the IRS had targeted for special scrutiny conservative groups seeking tax-exempt recognition under Section 501(c)4 of the Internal Revenue Code. NPQ has been reporting on this all week, and the story has moved so fast that the Treasury Department investigation report that precipitated the furor has almost been lost in the rush.

Nonprofit Quarterly offers a roundup of the latest changes and news regarding the IRS targeting scandal.

Buy the building and keep the name? The YMCA begs to disagree.

By its own admission, between 2010 and 2012, the IRS subjected groups to extra scrutiny based on buzzwords like “tea party” and “patriot” in their names. We would love to hear from you on this turn of events. What should be the nonprofit sector’s response?

Can there be greater strength in fewer numbers for Jewish communities that are no longer able to support separate houses of worship for each of their sharply divided denominations?

An unusual Alabama law threatens the operation of nonprofit spay/neuter clinics…and a new bill in the state senate could make things worse.

The ability for same-sex couples to sponsor foreign-born partners for green cards may be the sticking point for the immigration bill.

Caught between the sequester and President Obama’s FY2014 budget proposals, USAID faces calls for reform and restructuring.

In Part II of the Cohen Report’s review of President Obama’s proposed Fiscal Year 2014 budget, Rick Cohen examines elements of the budget with specific meaning for nonprofit sector capacity and productivity. Together with Part I here, examine the picture that the budget paints for nonprofits—challenges that go to the fundamental role of nonprofits in society and to the willingness and ability of the federal government to protect and sustain nonprofit capacity. 

While attention is given to the impact of sequestration on furloughed air-traffic controllers, some cuts leave a more visceral wound on the body politic—and specifically the nonprofit sector.

Few things are more loathed by the public than taxes, and our cultural models encourage us to view government as something to be resisted and our tax system as a faulty or rigged vending machine. So how do we change these entrenched ways of thinking? The FrameWorks Institute has some ideas.

In a stand against homophobic activity elsewhere, Palo Alto Human Relations Commissioner Ezran asks to deny CDBG funds to Catholic Charities.

The President’s FY2014 budget proposal is out!  What does it say to the nonprofit sector?  Rick Cohen does a deep dive into the budget to find implications for nonprofits—much more than the charitable deduction.  Read Part I here, Part II next week.  

NPQ spotlights a small tortilla business that’s working both with nonprofits and retailers to establish themselves.

The Cy Twombly Foundation promotes the reputation and art of the post-abstract-expressionist painter, but its own reputation has been challenged by a new lawsuit.

Missouri and Kansas are weighing “paycheck protection” legislation that restricts unions’ dues collection capacity. This trend could easily expand to include paycheck deductions for charities.

After a successful legal challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, Colorado Springs opts to abandon its controversial “no solicitation zone” policy for the city’s downtown area.

After founding a nonprofit to advance “common sense” gun control, Mark Kelly, the husband of mass shooting victim Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, demonstrates how easy it is to buy an assault weapon.

Donald Trump and Newt Gingrich have provided a useful service in explaining—unwittingly—the limitations of philanthropy in replacing governmental funding.

Now that Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus will no longer be running the Grameen Bank, can Grameen survive?

James O’Keefe, who you may remember for the undercover video work that triggered ACORN’s demise, settles a lawsuit that indicates O’Keefe left out an important part of the ACORN story.

Did you know that a volunteer town committee member in Massachusetts is considered a local government “employee” under state ethics rules? Neither did Pine DuBois.

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledges that the Justice Department views some banks and bankers as too big to jail.

In Colorado and Washington, voters have outright legalized marijuana for recreational use, enabling what could be a lucrative market—if the federal government doesn’t nix it.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has revised its state-by-state analysis of sequestration cuts. After a while, it’s just so many numbers, right? But there are real people in trouble behind these numbers.

Explaining his support for military-style assault weapons, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) mentions his fear that society is one cyber attack or natural disaster away from total chaos.

As hundreds of business sign brief asking the Supreme Court to find the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, have we arrived at a tipping point of cultural change?

U.S. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) has taken heat for comparing the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision to its Dred Scott decision, but it seems clear what he did—and didn’t—mean.

Is there a regime of corporate social responsibility for law firms?

According to the National Association of Community Health Centers, budget sequestration could result in some 900,000 patients without access to regular healthcare.