If one were to take every piece of badly conceived legislation seriously, we would be continuously in panic, but the “overreach” of some proposals affecting nonprofits simply exhibits some lawmakers’ painful lack of understanding of this sector.
The CHARITY Act starts by stressing the importance of preserving the charitable deduction, then offers five key changes to the rules of the IRS.
All sorts of nonprofits are developing innovative technologies for disabled individuals, and Google.org has just invested $20 million in some of these fascinating projects.
It’s hard to come to a conclusion about whether misallocation happened if you do not have an agreed-upon set of assumptions about allowable costs.
For a second year, the foundation will support local communities with grants to help institute realistic and practical solutions for identifying drivers of mass incarceration to create fairer and more just local legal systems.
Healthcare quality and access for Native Americans in the Great Plains has always been a source of tension. IHS officials met recently with representatives of tribes from Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota to discuss solutions.
Our children’s relationship to food and the earth as its source is in part being formed in school cafeterias. So what do you want to do about it? Here are some ideas.
Trump’s campaign released a list of his philanthropic contributions over the last five years, which total more than $102 million. However, Trump did not personally contribute a single listed donation, with many coming from his foundation, to which he has not contributed in seven years.
It should come as no surprise that among the shell companies in use by Mossack Fonseca are dummy foundations, making liberal use of the names of real charities to obscure what was really being done. Charities need to be vigilant in protecting their names and brand, as the Panama Papers scandal demonstrates.
In dealing with Catholic families, Pope Francis counsels adherence to doctrine while focusing on grace and a decentralized approach to delivering the message.
Will a need-based federal housing subsidy help remedy the affordable housing issue, or is the income tax code too complex for such a solution?
In Liberia, the arrest and treatment of an activist raises questions about the country’s closing space for freedom of speech and association without a robust presence of UN peacekeepers.