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BP Oil Spill Settlements to Nonprofits: Mechanics and Lessons
Do nonprofits have a right to claim economic losses when disaster hits? In the wake of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil spill in 2010, nonprofits suffered losses just like any other businesses in the impacted parts of the Gulf Coast. The new BP oil spill settlement process for making claims of economic losses is important for the region’s nonprofits to access—and for the nation’s nonprofits to understand if and when the next man-made, BP-type calamity hits.
One Foundation Ad, Two Messages for Child Abuse
A clever advertisement sends two different messages to the viewer based on their height, aiming to reach youth impacted by child abuse.
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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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Enveloped in Pessimism? Or Is the Future an Exciting Horizon?
The Urban Institute’s Gene Steuerle finds reason for optimism in the wake of the fiscal cliff brouhaha. As you survey the landscape, do you find support for notions of progress or decline?
Innovative Double Whammy: Developing Health Centers on Brownfields
More health care centers are finding enticing tax credits and grants for redeveloping environmentally contaminated buildings, known as brownfields, for use as treatment facilities.
IRS to Auction Art Taken from Nonprofit American Indian Services
It’s unusual to see the IRS seizing the assets of an operating nonprofit for nonpayment of taxes, but that is what has happened to the Sioux Falls, S.D.-based American Indian Services, Inc.
“Knucklehead” Public Philanthropy in Trenton
Here’s a little example of public philanthropy that smells fishy enough to draw calls for an investigation in Trenton, N.J.
NGO Documents Conditions in Gaza
Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli observers put differing emphases on various Human Rights Watch reports. Where would we be without these HRW witnesses and truthtellers?
In Defense of Taxes—Even If They Might Cut into Charitable Giving
As we consider the broader implications of tax reform and government spending in the wake of the “fiscal cliff” deal, nonprofit leaders need to emphasize what we buy with our tax dollars.
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