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rick cohen | March 14 2013
Reflections on a Nonprofit Approach to Comprehensive Tax Reform
The next really big battle for the nation’s policymakers is tax reform. NPQ will soon release a special issue of its print journal on this topic, but here are some preliminary thoughts. -
rick cohen | March 7 2013
Hoodwinked? As Nonprofits Focus on Charitable Deduction, Sequestration Cuts Inflict Pain
The nonprofit sector reacted with parochial panic about proposed changes to the charitable deduction, but shouldn’t it have paid more mind to the devastating blow dealt by sequestration budget cuts? Were we tricked?
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The Case against Rainy-Day Framing of Budgets and Taxes
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 ...
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As the U.S. moves from debating and legislating healthcare insurance reform to making it work for tens of millions of Americans, what role should nonprofits and their foundation backers play?
Most nonprofit leaders aren’t investment whizzes, but most realize that they should carefully consider their investment options. There are many ways to do so that are in harmony with one’s mission.
Mandated by the Affordable Care Act, community health needs assessments could be as little as a new piece of paperwork or as much as a potent tool to completely transform healthcare in America.
With over 100 million views, Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 was a viral video sensation last year but the related movement fizzled out. What motivates those who have stuck with it? 
Disaster relief is a field in which nonprofits have much to teach legislators about what works and what isn’t all that helpful. 
“The future ain’t what it used to be,” Yogi Berra once said. That seems to be true for the nonprofit sector, based on the predictions for 2013 we’ve received from smart people in and around the Nonprofit Quarterly orbit. WRITE FOR NPQ
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