See the Republican National Convention attacks for what they really are – a recognition that community organization is powerful and, when done right, a challenge to the entrenched power of politicians and their corporate allies.
Fundraising Party Time at the National Conventions
Yes, happy days are here again, for the special interests that get to use the national parties’ conventions as venues where they can coagulate around lawmakers and delegates to ply their trade without the formalities of bothersome practices like much transparency and disclosure.
Nickel-and-Diming Volunteer Drivers: Time for a Change
Wouldn’t it be great if volunteer drivers for charities such as Meals on Wheels and the Salvation Army could take a charitable deduction of 74 cents for the mileage they drive as opposed to the measly, crummy, insulting 14 cents per mile currently allowed under U.S. law?They could—if they were volunteers in the United Kingdom, but not in the American cauldron of charitable sensitivity.
Economic Whitewater: A Tired but Apt Metaphor
I think we have to assume that there are many hidden rocks and swift currents in the river immediately ahead, and that many of us will, for a while, be in those rapids. We need to be ready for them.
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Playing by the NFL’s Tax Exempt Rules
Should the nonprofit National Football League be exempt from IRS 990 salary disclosure requirements? Apparently the NFL thinks it deserves its own unique exempt tax status, maybe 501(c)("m" for monopoly), allowing it to report on what it thinks is important for the public to know and withhold what might make the public a little upset with the nonprofit trade association of sports barons.
The Great Lobbying Fix
Press coverage of the July 16th revisions to Congressional lobbying rules was scant and generally positive. It must be a rerun of “Short Attention Span Theater” on Capitol Hill and in the Fourth Estate.
Got Conflict?
The Ethicist is on vacation, but when disaster strikes, there’s still a doctor in the house. Meet Dr. Conflict.
Cohen Report: ACORN’s Dilemma and Ours
Quick, what’s the difference between Triantafilitsa Mattfeld and Dale Rathke?
Both were caught embezzling money from their nonprofit organizations, Mattfeld $180,000 from the Navy Elementary School PTA in Fairfax County, Virginia, Rathke exactly $948,607.50 while he was handling the books for ACORN, the nation’s premier community-based organizing and advocacy network founded by his brother Wade Rathke who also served until June as ACORN’s Chief Organizer. Read the rest of this article and extensive reader commentary.