tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5851840270513790182024-03-12T16:33:57.537-07:00Central NY Nonprofit NewsAndrew Mariettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16582299721394131373noreply@blogger.comBlogger673125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585184027051379018.post-33570909287009033542017-04-11T14:33:00.002-07:002017-04-11T14:33:36.255-07:00Nonprofits boost economy but get squeezed by it too<header style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="contentArea tease" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 0px auto 0.75em; max-width: 1260px; padding: 0px;">
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And they are just as worried about balancing their ledgers.</div>
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The prospect of government budget cuts, the squeeze of regulations, growing demand for services that non-profits have traditionally performed and competition for donations all weigh on their budgeting process. </div>
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The concerns are highlighted in a recent report by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies: “New York Capital Region Nonprofits: A Major Economic Engine.”</div>
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That report found nonprofits are an important piece of the area’s economy, with combined 2013 revenues of $9.2 billion, expenditures of $8.9 billion and payroll of $3.1 billion. The 79,210 paid employees of Capital Region nonprofits far surpassed the next-largest employment sectors: local government (57,193), retail (56,525) and state government (50,404).</div>
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The nonprofit sector added 12,834 jobs from 2003 to 2013. Combined, all other sectors showed a net increase of 1,310 jobs, the study found.</div>
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(The picture beyond the Capital Region is similar -- New York is the biggest state in the nation for nonprofits, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in December. He noted that more than 31,000 nonprofits employ nearly 1.3 million people here and said both numbers are the highest in the United States.)</div>
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The Capital Region report was written by Lester M. Salamon and Chelsea L. Newhouse. It defined the Capital Region as Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren and Washington counties.</div>
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It was created with support from the New York Council of Nonprofits, the Capital Region Chamber, The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region, MVP Health Care and The Schenectady Foundation.</div>
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Capital Region Chamber CEO Mark Eagan said last week that the report puts some specific numbers on something most people already knew about nonprofits: “They're a major economic engine. It's a major sector.”</div>
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The chamber got involved at the request of the Tech Valley Nonprofit Business Council, one of the chamber’s internal groups.</div>
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Eagan said the nonprofit sector spans the economic spectrum, from GED jobs to PhD jobs, because it encompasses everything from homeless shelters to hospitals and colleges. It is also a big part of the cultural landscape.</div>
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"This is different in other markets, but in our market, almost all of our [cultural organizations] are nonprofits.”</div>
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Finally, Eagan said, nonprofits provide much of the safety net for people who are struggling in some way.</div>
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Balancing those benefits is the fact that smaller nonprofits pay their employees lower wages, on average, than government and for-profit employers. Also, their facilities are tax-exempt.</div>
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"One of the challenges is that nonprofits don't pay property taxes. That does create stress for the cities that host the nonprofits,” Eagan said.</div>
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Whether the services nonprofits provide exceed the value of the taxes they don't pay is a question that has long been debated. The answer is yes, in Eagan’s opinion.</div>
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Robert Carreau, executive director of the Schenectady Foundation, said the Johns Hopkins Center report provides valuable insight to the economics of the nonprofit sector. </div>
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His only wish is that the report had differentiated among classes of nonprofits. It offers no distinction between the hospital employing thousands of people, many at high salaries, and the shelter organization with a few dozen employees, many earning near-minimum wage.</div>
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"Hospitals and large organizations are lumped in with [Schenectady Inner City Ministry] and small organizations,” said Carreau.</div>
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The pressures and challenges facing nonprofits vary by their size, but the work they do is equally important to the people they serve.</div>
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“Nonprofits play an enormously important role in the fabric of the community,” Carreau said. “Many nonprofits are continuing to try to do as much, if not more, with about the same funding.”</div>
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This contributes to stagnant wages and trouble recruiting and retaining employees, he said. The employee turnover, in turn, erodes the interpersonal relationships important to nonprofits, as they collaborate to resolve problems.</div>
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For that reason, a growing role of the Schenectady Foundation is problem-solving, Carreau said, especially by forming groups with common issues, so they can search for solutions.</div>
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“Our world is ever-changing ... you have to be very nimble to navigate it.”</div>
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The Schenectady Foundation distributes $1.3 million to $1.5 million a year to nonprofits.</div>
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Michael Saccocio, CEO of the City Mission of Schenectady, said the mission operates entirely on private funding but isn’t immune to cutbacks in government funding. When public funding disappears, the organizations that count on those funds turn to the same finite sources of private dollars on which the mission relies.</div>
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The mission is a business, he said, very similar to for-profit companies except in two important ways: It doesn’t pay property taxes, and its bottom-line definition of success is serving a needy population, rather than turning a profit.</div>
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Like for-profit businesses, the mission hires vendors and contractors, invests in the community, and employs about 100 people who pay payroll taxes and contribute to the Social Security system. It pays water and sewer fees to the city and forwards sales tax to the state from its thrift store.</div>
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“Other than the property taxes, it’s very similar” to any other business, Saccocio said.</div>
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He said the Mission doesn’t have the same challenges hiring people that some nonprofits do -- except for the overnight shelter shifts, which are harder to fill.</div>
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The satisfaction in helping struggling people get back on track goes beyond the paycheck, Saccocio explained, and that is what draws job applicants.</div>
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“It’s a difficult job that’s not heavily compensated.”</div>
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The Rev. Phil Grigsby, executive director of the Schenectady Inner City Ministry, finds the increasing focus by donors and regulators to be problematic, at times.</div>
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After awareness grew of telemarketers siphoning a huge percentage of donations for some charitable operations, everyone wanted to know how much their nonprofit was spending on administrative and fundraising costs.</div>
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SICM runs lean, Grigsby said, with only 10 to 20 percent administrative overhead, depending on the details of a particular program. SICM’s summer lunch program, which boosts the organization's staff from 10 to 50 for the season, is a major undertaking, involving much more than rolling up to a playground with a cooler full of sandwiches.</div>
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“To run that program, you have to have a very skilled financial person on board,” Grigsby said, adding that it also takes a dedicated program director.</div>
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With their money, donors are providing more than 2,000 lunches on summer weekdays to children who, during the school year, rely on school districts' free meal programs.</div>
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“We’re not doing that program to make money,” Grigsby said.</div>
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To fund its $2 million annual budget, SICM relies on a variety of sources.</div>
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Grigsby said he’s concerned that the conditions of the 2008 economic downturn -- greater demand for services and less funding for them -- will repeat and pinch SICM's funding sources.</div>
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“From our point of view, we’re anticipating that,” he said.</div>
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The United Way of the Greater Capital Region is seeing that trend already, Executive Director Brian Hassett said: Its annual campaign is wrapping up, and is short of its target.</div>
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“We’ve had a challenging year,” he said. “It’s going to be down $200,000, which in my world is a lot of money.”</div>
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The United Way funds 60 organizations and partnerships that serve more than 100,000 people a year, so Hassett has a direct view of the landscape described in the Johns Hopkins report.</div>
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“In many ways, it tells a very powerful story,” he said.</div>
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The Capital Region has a major asset for nonprofits in its stable and diverse economy, Hassett said. But parts of that economy, particularly technology firms, aren’t as supportive as established companies. The GE Family of Givers, for example, is the largest single donor to the United Way of the Greater Capital Region and is attached to one of the region's oldest corporate residents. </div>
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“The new economy isn't as supportive yet. The ownership and culture has a different approach to philanthropy,” Hassett said. “I'm still hopeful about getting them involved.”</div>
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In total, the United Way of the Greater Capital Region distributes about $6 million a year. The recipients, Hassett said, “don't tend to be the big brand names. They struggle; they depend on the United Way, the Community Foundation, private foundations.”</div>
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Many are food banks, homeless shelters, community centers, and other organizations that help the working poor, a demographic that increasingly seeks assistance.</div>
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“We’ve been trying to shed light on this segment of the community,” Hassett said. </div>
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Some 2013 statistics offered in the report “New York Capital Region Nonprofits: A Major Economic Engine”:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">The nonprofit sector added 12,834 jobs from 2003 to 2013 in the Capital Region. Combined, all other sectors showed a net increase of 1,310 jobs.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Nonprofits employed 79,210 paid workers, the most of any sector in the region. (The local government sector had 57,193, retail had 56,525, state government 50,404.)</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Nonprofits employ 16 percent of the region’s total workforce and 21 percent of its non-governmental workforce.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Nonprofits had assets of $13.8 billion, revenues of $9.2 billion, expenditures of $8.9 billion and wages of $3.1 billion.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">The bulk of the region’s nonprofit employees, 48,902, work in health and social services.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">The average monthly wage was $3,288 for nonprofits, $3,821 for local government, $3,968 in the for-profit sector and $5,221 for state government.</li>
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<strong><span style="color: #db4854; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Now is the time to take action to prevent this from happening. </span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Please take two minutes today (March 31st is the deadline!) to sign your organization onto the <strong><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D0012p2Uwna5WKrltFjPI5axMsnSxpmMvpf4l1nfdFANC_1BK2pkuHgfKeqyfvhFn5bPtgChfC71o0Mh7nOXyUQI8-ZiemmgRxgmQdeg_enUIERb3deklkzHZTeDyP1MoBFAJTo1PyeOULF5X1iTC8a2Nz2wOf_bOh7ii6uXAalRF--1SHi1JMJX7xh_WOPQQFoPNtwhkUF9_Aj3n241iuQA69_jHaiSSIdC_LbUNLvrALbnmRfRJf8b0HHfnT8CLfzIqig3fsqe1hyUVdmrWDKDAqm86ut_WBJ9IYhjsj1X9xE%3D%26c%3Dla2b4O-j0AooCSm0ptkP7LRSBTilGu6sgjHUP1TUkJBrBC6AEMDWlQ%3D%3D%26ch%3DTQio02xn5DUSLUTaB8T-3bybudKFeUn9932keyeAP4y9X2aXfdzNWg%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1491346705661000&usg=AFQjCNFHlg5MnrtXcyzXoe5Uu3G8cI28Ag" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0012p2Uwna5WKrltFjPI5axMsnSxpmMvpf4l1nfdFANC_1BK2pkuHgfKeqyfvhFn5bPtgChfC71o0Mh7nOXyUQI8-ZiemmgRxgmQdeg_enUIERb3deklkzHZTeDyP1MoBFAJTo1PyeOULF5X1iTC8a2Nz2wOf_bOh7ii6uXAalRF--1SHi1JMJX7xh_WOPQQFoPNtwhkUF9_Aj3n241iuQA69_jHaiSSIdC_LbUNLvrALbnmRfRJf8b0HHfnT8CLfzIqig3fsqe1hyUVdmrWDKDAqm86ut_WBJ9IYhjsj1X9xE=&c=la2b4O-j0AooCSm0ptkP7LRSBTilGu6sgjHUP1TUkJBrBC6AEMDWlQ==&ch=TQio02xn5DUSLUTaB8T-3bybudKFeUn9932keyeAP4y9X2aXfdzNWg==" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Nonprofit Community Letter in Support of Nonpartisanship.</a></strong><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At NYCON, March Madness starts us thinking about our own Big Event...<strong>Camp Finance 2017! </strong>This year is our </span><strong><i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">16th Annual Camp Finance </span></i></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">and we look forward to seeing you at Mohonk Mountain House on <strong><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_292975826" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">October 5th & 6th</span></span>. </strong><b><br /></b>To capture the excitement of both events, we're offering you our <strong>March Madness Camp Finance Discount</strong> from now until <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_292975827" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Midnight</span></span> on April 3rd. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is just a little Thank You to all of you who are as fond of Camp Finance as we are. We love seeing you on the mountain and are looking forward to a great conference again this year.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Still Time to Take Action</span></b></em><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Help Keep Politics Out of Charitable Nonprofits<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A core principle of charitable nonprofits – nonpartisanship – is under attack<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27987%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660982000&usg=AFQjCNFyR2fVXlzeKSBbb0dOCFVxBECQpA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27987&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"></a></span><u></u><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27987%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNHFauzn6L1HSS7T98VJ-X8cUzPCyw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27987&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><img align="right" alt="Act Now" border="0" class="CToWUd" hspace="6" src="https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/ZlRZZ52AAbdFLyxitZX3vKetZag6l8CWU7nceHFHtrU8fRbf7w4M7RZ_-XFmv9UeQibBKrtMSgrX2YJ_koA1tIR0YkXE8ZulxOxWztbgpjhRiEWLfReUs2U8KxU3kU0bDhDX6T3mWQ9xq1HOaXFudiXv8k-d-RFDaqbx=s0-d-e1-ft#https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/images/act-now.png" vspace="6" /></a><u></u><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27987%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNHFauzn6L1HSS7T98VJ-X8cUzPCyw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27987&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"></a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">in Washington, DC, and all who are concerned about the wellbeing and effectiveness of the nonprofit community are asked to take two minutes to express support for a protection that has defined the sector for generations. Sign the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27988%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNHU2Li8F6Ozis3ptB6jpMIbLWnzoQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27988&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Community Letter in Support of Nonpartisanship</a> now!<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bills pending in Congress would repeal or significantly weaken the current law’s longstanding protections by inviting charitable and philanthropic organizations to endorse or oppose candidates for elected office and divert some of their assets away from their missions to instead support partisan campaigns. This legislation would subject charitable nonprofits and foundations to demands for political endorsements and campaign contributions (diverting donors' money away from mission-related work to benefit politicians) and damage public trust in the work of nonprofits. Further, it’s completely unnecessary. Nonprofits - and their individual staff, board members, and volunteers - already have many legal avenues to freely express their views on a wide range of public policy issues through existing laws that allow for advocacy of our missions to policymakers.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We urge charitable nonprofits, private foundations, religious groups, and for-profit supporters to sign the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27987%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNHFauzn6L1HSS7T98VJ-X8cUzPCyw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27987&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Community Letter in Support of Nonpartisanship</a> that 2,000+ organizations from coast to coast already have signed. Learn more by going to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27989%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNFSb_bPLsZTBXdbpn6e1hALCHZE9g" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27989&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.GiveVoice.org</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27990%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNFtXVi9Ivn9Ylmz-g7s1v4GWNfiGg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27990&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Prote<wbr></wbr>cting Nonprofit Nonpartisanship</a>. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Health Insurance Repeal and Replacement Advancing in the House<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">On March 6, Speaker Ryan and House Republican leaders unveiled the<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: #222222;">American Health Care Act</a> (AHCA), legislation intended to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (also known as “Obamacare”). The bill has been approved by three House committees, and the full House could vote on it by the end of this week. The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27991%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNF8Ue8P1GeZCrQSZv_JkJW87nUhPw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27991&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Congressional Budget Office</a> (CBO) has estimated that the legislation would reduce federal deficits by $337 billion and increase the number of uninsured people to an estimated 24 million by 2026. President Trump has endorsed the legislation, but<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27992%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNHML47HiZ9Bq4RK7vZmqyG3AwToIg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27992&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"> many House Republicans</a> have expressed concerns while <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27993%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNEpLqXJg1pXcPkoJhW4In2C9WoJmw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27993&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">several GOP Senators</a> have opposed the bill from the beginning.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Some of the key issues of the AHCA that would potentially affect nonprofits include:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The White House released a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27995%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNHUxw8Wu_MQiX-ZTYu_WJfhxchXkQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27995&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">preliminary budget blueprint</a> for Fiscal Year 2018, which begins on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_206417469" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">October 1</span></span>, that has been called “draconian” and “dead on arrival” by some in his own party. The budget proposal, which is essentially a request for funding by Congress (which has the “power of the purse” under the Constitution), seeks $54 billion in increased defense spending and calls for an equal level of spending cuts in domestic programs that often support the work of charitable nonprofits on behalf of governments in communities across the country. The President is asking Congress to cut the Department of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27996%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNF_lf5Wd1klZ2r10iLWX79W9_sazA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27996&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Housing and Urban Development</a> by 13 percent, the Department of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27997%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNEio9eFHfmGDPzP2odkcOjoe9IQMQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27997&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Health and Human Services</a> by 18 percent, the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27998%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNGlxDHZxWjHDftHqksW6IgmU9vcYw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27998&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">State Department</a> by 28 percent, and the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27999%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNEpkTwmkTpcX9oqB28j5sF_LGYZEg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27999&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Environmental Protection Agency</a> by 31 percent. The blueprint proposes to eliminate funding for several programs, including the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Legal Services Corporation; the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The so-called “skinny budget” only contains top-line spending requests; the more detailed budget proposal that contains policy specifics, data tables, and itemized spending levels for all programs, is not expected until May. Congress must enact twelve spending bills by <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_206417470" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">September 30</span></span> or pass a stopgap funding measure known as a "continuing resolution" (CR). The federal government is operating in the current FY 2017 fiscal year under a CR that expires on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_206417471" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">April 28</span></span>, meaning that Congress must address immediate decisions on spending to keep the federal government open through <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_206417472" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">September 30</span></span> before turning to the proposals President Trump published last week.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Federal <em>FastView</em><u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="m_-6419159458321038187centennial" name="m_-6419159458321038187_centennial" style="color: #222222;"></a><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Contributing Centennial Celebrated</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: A resolution celebrating the 100<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of the Charitable Deduction was introduced in Congress <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_206417473" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span> by Representatives John Lewis (D-GA) and Pat Tiberi (R-OH). <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28000%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNEuEYjoCq9sKRbe3svFXCStzE8xlQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28000&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">House Concurrent Resolution 34</a> provides a historical timeline of the deduction, enacted into the federal tax code in 1917, and highlights the benefits to the arts, humanities, religious institutions, education, human services, environment, health programs, and many other subsectors, as well as recognizing the empowerment and force of individual philanthropy. The resolution specifically “reaffirms the importance of encouraging rather than diminishing philanthropic services which respond to the needs of communities.”<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="m_-6419159458321038187planned-parenthood" name="m_-6419159458321038187_planned-parenthood" style="color: #222222;"></a><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Targeting Planned Parenthood:</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> It has been widely publicized that the American Health Care Act pending in the House would <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28001%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNFHmDp5qzkY8HcwJHYGmS4FI5aD3Q" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28001&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">completely defund Planned Parenthood</a> for one year. The day after the AHCA was introduced, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28002%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNG93hG2OmZlJMBhjk21y_1NMRCxNw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28002&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">President Trump offered a deal</a> to the nonprofit health provider: that if it stopped performing abortion services, the organization could maintain federal funding. Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, responded that “no federal funding goes towards abortion in the first place,” which is in fact the current law under the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28003%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNFZgwqKCck18XQY3R1Esn3RDCZ_lQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28003&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Hyde Amendment</a>. Richards stated that the “defunding” of non-abortion services would “block millions of people” from access and preventative care. The Congressional Budget Office projects that 15 percent of people live in areas without health care clinics or have no medical practitioners who serve low-income populations.</span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Several more states are considering minimum wage increases. A <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28004%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNGWgBYbHwEdUT2pv97hO8GQLp2waw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28004&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Nevada</a> bill would raise the state’s minimum wage by $1.25 per hour until it reaches $15 per hour for employers that do not offer health insurance and $14 per hour for employers that do provide health insurance. A <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28005%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNEHiXvFo4-4515URdkXUDJnIa8bDg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28005&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">separate Nevada bill</a> proposes a state constitutional amendment to increase the minimum wage to $9 per hour, and in 2022, an additional $.75 per hour per year until reaching $12 per hour. That proposal also calls for removing provisions authorizing an employer and employee to waive the minimum wage requirement in a collective bargaining agreement. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28006%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNGOwdKYXo7ruOjdxC5YI-ECEKBKWA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28006&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">New Mexico</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28007%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNHYgVk_abcABHukIc2vm9qM3wUSSA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28007&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">North Carolina</a> propose to increase pay from $7.50 per hour to $9.00 per hour over the next year, and $7.25 per hour to $15 per hour by 2022, respectively. An <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28008%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNEhuNARxNYLLn1yhRTqprnI3rWGmw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28008&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">earlier North Carolina bill</a> would have reached the higher rate one year faster.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This month, the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28009%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNGVoVjoYizyFRlDjay3yvTg2UA51w" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28009&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Arizona</a> Supreme Court unanimously upheld a voter-approved measure raising the minimum wage to $12 per hour by 2020. The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry challenged the law, arguing in part that the state would be forced to spend more money on contracts, including services provided by charitable nonprofits. The court rejected the argument. Regardless, due to a voter initiative, employment costs will increase in Arizona, and nonprofits will likely need to seek philanthropic support to cover expenses not reimbursed by the governments. See the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28010%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNHyjQiMohDVgQ7HRhvwAltWVnpG0A" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28010&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Open Letter</a> from the <strong>California Association of Nonprofits</strong> for the role philanthropy can play in helping nonprofits transition to higher labor standards.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Courts in <strong>Michigan</strong> and <strong>New Jersey</strong> have temporarily stymied the trend to remove property tax exemptions from nonprofit entities. Upholding the tax-exempt status of a health care provider, the Michigan Tax Tribunal found <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28011%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNHHAdCR3M4K_ymUdD8Nv-HXRg2_pQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28011&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">in favor for nonprofit property tax exemption</a>. The locality had rejected the nonprofit’s property tax exemption claiming that the organization was ineligible due to its high costs, low proportion of uninsured patients, and apparent growth-through-acquisition strategy. The Tax Tribunal rejected each of the rationales, which may dampen the efforts of other Michigan localities to seek new tax revenue from nonprofits. Similarly, the New Jersey Tax Court overturned a county board’s findings and upheld <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28012%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNErfXKESjkuV0fVIgp7SN7xjLOAYw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28012&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">the tax exemption for religious and charitable use</a> of properties under state law. Contrary to rulings from another New Jersey Tax Court judge, the court in the recent case concluded that “despite evidence indicating that religious activities on the subject church property had diminished … the church continued to make actual use of the property in furtherance of its religious purposes.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Property Tax: </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Two bills in <strong>Connecticut</strong> are aimed at diverting resources of hospitals to fund local government operations. One bill would <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28013%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNF6iYU_6l1e2wbn-XUNY6J1Bjovig" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28013&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">eliminate hospitals’ real property tax exemption</a> and theoretically offset the hospitals’ liabilities under a new property tax scheme; a plan the hospitals do not believe will end in their favor. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28014%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660983000&usg=AFQjCNHJ2R7QhMvsh1SaaA7haOfmm6z7bg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28014&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">A separate measure</a> would change the fixed-amount hospital tax to a levy charged every quarter, resulting in a substantial increase.<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Property Tax: </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In a string of revenue bills, the Mayor of Providence,<strong> Rhode Island </strong>proposes to tax certain <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28015%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660984000&usg=AFQjCNGuMh34aBusNF_OkXrR0ItfoTXMPg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28015&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">nonprofit hospital and college properties</a>. Parallel city-backed state legislation would remove property tax exemption for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28016%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660984000&usg=AFQjCNFXVw-kT1GZ6dnsUzq9lLKWF0CJog" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28016&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">property not essential</a> to the institution’s mission, identifying classrooms and hospital rooms as exempt but vacant lots, parking garages, and undeveloped property as taxable.<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">PILOTs</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: The Mayor of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28017%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660984000&usg=AFQjCNGzKhIw5lu6NfwKqVaz8eZ-mmT7dg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28017&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">New Britain, Connecticut</a> has a budget problem and is turning to local nonprofits for help. But in a region of the country where antagonism has been growing due to aggressive government demands and the occasional threats against longstanding property tax exemptions, the Mayor’s approach is unusual: she is asking politely. Mayor Erin Steward has sent letters to 30 nonprofit service providers thanking them for their work to improve the wellbeing of the local community. She lays out the budget challenges of the City, and then asks: “Any donation your organization is willing to make to the city of New Britain to offset any further tax increases on our residents and businesses would be greatly appreciated.”<u></u><u></u></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nonprofits facing demands from local governments to make payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs) will be interested to learn that cities typically fail to disclose the value and beneficiaries of tax breaks they give to businesses for economic development purposes. New accounting rules require states and localities to disclose revenue loss due to tax holidays and incentives, yet access to the revenue data from cities is extremely limited, according to the organization Good Jobs First. Its new report, “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28018%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660984000&usg=AFQjCNEaOjVtNP_Aj0PcTaJYnCduLY2KvQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28018&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Show Us the Subsidies</a>,” considers a program to be transparent only if the data were available on a public webpage and included the recipient companies’ names. The study found that 50 of the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28019%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660984000&usg=AFQjCNGYgmhCUsatBnREKjo92SnNUhWCcQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28019&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">largest local governments fail to disclose</a> basic information needed for transparency, such as who was benefiting and the amounts paid or claimed for the benefit. Over half of the localities fail to disclose any basic information about any of their incentive programs.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The newly revised New York advocacy disclosure law is unconstitutional and harmful to nonprofits, according to a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28020%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660984000&usg=AFQjCNHHY59VzOrRvgqxw58vlP40mf3g4A" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28020&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">law suit filed this month</a> by the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York and the Lawyers Alliance for New York. The suit, filed against the <strong>New York </strong>State Attorney General, challenges the disclosure requirements under the law because they require 501(c)(3) nonprofits to report donations simply because the entity provided some assistance to 501(c)(4) entities. The disclosure is required even if the support is not connected to lobbying or political speech, the primary focus of the advocacy disclosure law. By challenging the statute, the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28021%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660984000&usg=AFQjCNFqHSVHINGOeAA094I4VELTU-Kajg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28021&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">parties are seeking to protect nonprofits</a> from overbroad laws requiring nonprofits, especially advocacy organizations, technical assistance providers, and community foundations, from identifying donors whose contributions have no connection to lobbying activities.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Trump budget proposal calls for elimination of numerous programs, including the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Supporters of the NEA are mobilizing to convince Congress to ignore the President’s suggestion to defund this vital program.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28024%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660984000&usg=AFQjCNFW8IKaMGcYS91gBhHI4HX1LQQuUw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28024&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">American Alliance of Museums</a> immediately emphasized that the NEA and other programs “play an essential role in helping museums make the arts and the humanities accessible to all Americans,” and vowed “to work with our allies to build on Congress’ tradition of strong bipartisan support for these agencies.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“This country better be careful we're not losing the soul of our country because we play politics and we forget people who are in need."<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">- Ohio Governor John Kasich, speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” March 12, 2017, addressing the need to work in a bipartisan manner when replacing the Affordable Care Act, and without intention making a profound statement in support of nonprofit nonpartisanship on behalf of the “soul of our country” and keeping people in need in the forefront of our minds. (Quoted in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28032%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660984000&usg=AFQjCNHhCHvJ_lNML7SyulVRf3x83HgpEA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28032&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #385d8b;">Governing</span></em></a>.)<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“It would become: Do we give (money) to help the poor or to help the party? Church and state aren’t a clear-cut division even now, but to do away with the Johnson amendment would just create some level of political and religious chaos.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">- Professor Bill Leonard, Wake Forest School of Divinity, quoted in “Does the church have a place in politics? Three theologians weigh in,” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28033%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660984000&usg=AFQjCNFX8aKNvb4LgpyOPfl1GPhPXTiIlQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28033&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: #385d8b;">Winston-Salem (NC) Journal</span></em></a>, March 19, 2017. For more information on the Johnson Amendment and advocacy efforts in support of retaining it, see<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27990%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660984000&usg=AFQjCNHa97eO0OTX7vh2aI81j9-insw8uA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27990&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Protecting Nonprofit Nonpartisanship</span></a> and go to<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28034%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660984000&usg=AFQjCNG26RHGg7lZuu2CSlT6_1K3erjmgw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28034&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">www.GiveVoice.org</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“Nonprofit organizations are best able to advance their missions when they are nonpartisan. Nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofits are able to serve as true problem solvers working in partnership with government and other community stakeholders with shared values and a common vision that moves well beyond any current political cycle. The Johnson Amendment does not unfairly limit the speech of churches or nonprofits. Religious institutions and other nonprofit organizations that want to give up their public charity status are free to expend their funds for or against political candidates and partisan election activity and keep their tax exempt status as a (c)(4), or Section 527 organization.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">- Jennifer Hutchins, Executive Director of the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28035%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNFuE6hEfp79y4UsrpLa37t6U-kP5g" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28035&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Maine Nonprofit Association</span></a>, writing in an Action Alert to members urging their organizations to sign the<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27987%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNGQQTQkNahsO6g9mQYx3BjKlKPkeg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27987&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Community Letter in Support of Nonpartisanship</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“Simply put, every dollar taken from the state that they can’t somehow adjust for is either a dollar taken from something else or possibly a cut or a tax increase. It really is that tight in many states.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">- Scott Pattison, Executive Director of the National Governors Association, quoted in “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28036%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNHwXlFPU7LTFMGc1NKnSfLL6rlZNQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28036&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">As Capitol Hill Debates Health Care, States Face Troubling Fiscal ‘Uncertainty’</span></a>,” Quinn Libson, <em>Route Fifty</em> (March 9, 2017), explaining the stress that federal budget cuts will have on the states.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">- Michigan State Representative Julie Calley (R-87), Co-Chair of the Michigan Nonprofit Caucus in the Legislature and former Chair of the Michigan Community Service Commission, speaking about the value of volunteer service programs such as AmeriCorps, during a panel discussion at the Michigan Legislative Day at the Capitol.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28037%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNF82cTKYTpcyWCoa2pMTmjmuCj1hw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28037&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Can a Small College Save Its Small Town?</span></a>, Aaron M. Renn,<em>Governing</em>, March 2017, relating numerous examples of nonprofit colleges investing in and strengthening their host communities in mutually beneficial ways that do not involve direct payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs).<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28038%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNEXPhRAvrP68OvqecN07DPPcyhl8Q" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28038&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">The Social Wellbeing of New York City's Neighborhoods: The Contribution of Culture and the Arts</span></a>, Mark J. Stern and Susan C. Seifert, March 2017, presenting landmark research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice finding that low- and moderate-income residents in New York City neighborhoods that have access to plentiful cultural resources are healthier, better educated, and safer overall than those in similar communities with fewer creative resources.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.givevoice.org/sites/default/files/inline-images/protecting-nonpartisanship-infographic.png&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNHB3k6-G322ixg0i2QKNY1RKqU3cw" href="https://www.givevoice.org/sites/default/files/inline-images/protecting-nonpartisanship-infographic.png" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Protecting Nonprofit Nonpartisanship | Infographic</span></a>, National Council of Nonprofits, March 2, 2017<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“A charity should not arrange, sponsor, or participate in an event, rally, or protest that explicitly supports or opposes any political candidate <em>by name</em>. Charities can and should participate in events supporting or opposing <em>a policy issue</em> in alignment with their mission.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">- <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28040%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNHeNeLg15yPnkKw9CQ2BvPaNxjmdg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28040&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: #385d8b;">Charities Participating in Policy and Protest: 2017 and Beyond</span></strong></a>, Susan Kratz, Nilan Johnson Lewis PA, published in<em>JD Supra Business Advisor</em>, init March 8, 2017.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Source:</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28036%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNHwXlFPU7LTFMGc1NKnSfLL6rlZNQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28036&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">As Capitol Hill Debates Health Care, States Face Troubling Fiscal ‘Uncertainty’</span></a>,” Quinn Libson in <em>Route Fifty</em> (March 9, 2017).<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">March 20-21, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28041%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNF5E5YJCuQ_huzUFG7EZtJA_cg2-w" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28041&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Public Policy Forum & NC Nonprofits Day</span></a>, North Carolina Center <em>for</em>Nonprofits<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">March 22, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28042%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNGDAydSTPcUPkZRnEkvi1PS0l6FlQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28042&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Statewide Lobby Day</span></a>, CT Community Nonprofit Alliance<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">March 23, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28043%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNFD1qCBl-Va6yzxQdUYJq4cgREiXg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28043&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">2017 Vermont Nonprofit Legislative Day</span></a>, Common Good Vermont<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_206417475" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">March 24</span></span>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28044%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNF4XsXBhfkTdWjmJobEn7BwtBYGEQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28044&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Working with Media in Advocacy</span></a>, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_206417476" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">March 27</span></span>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28045%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNFk8bS6JQOjE2tYXFm1p7MusmVNOw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28045&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Legislative Advocacy Training</span></a>, Forefront<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_206417477" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">April 25</span></span>, Caring Force State House Rally, Providers’ Council<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_206417478" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">April 26</span></span>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D28047%26qid%3D782560&source=gmail&ust=1490390660985000&usg=AFQjCNHSXcTeOgIzHltBdTOS3XvAjWIG3A" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=28047&qid=782560" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Advocacy Conversations and Planning</span></a>, Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits</span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02025396019812118890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585184027051379018.post-76929326592248065012017-03-23T14:22:00.003-07:002017-03-23T14:22:59.857-07:00Highlights of the Trump Budget Proposal<h4 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in;">
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Trump Budget Cuts Billions of Dollars From Antipoverty Programs<u></u><u></u></h1>
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By Alex Daniels, Megan O’Neil, and Timothy Sandoval<u></u><u></u></div>
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The Trump administration’s preliminary <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3518210-2018-Budget-Blueprint.html&source=gmail&ust=1490390452520000&usg=AFQjCNF4VRMfXLKNHmGMUQ2I6zmsJE61-A" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3518210-2018-Budget-Blueprint.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">budget proposal</a> would zero out many nonprofit-administered antipoverty programs in areas including heating assistance, affordable housing, and economic development, while also eliminating federal agencies such as the National Endowment for the Arts.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Also on the chopping block is the Corporation for Community and National Service, which provides charities with tens of thousands of low-cost AmeriCorps workers each year, and the agency’s <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.philanthropy.com/article/50-Million-Social-Innovation/238910&source=gmail&ust=1490390452521000&usg=AFQjCNEhGM3gzdRBmKKRnVvhcD6hSOc4sg" href="https://www.philanthropy.com/article/50-Million-Social-Innovation/238910" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Social Innovation Fund</a>, which steers public and private dollars to nonprofit programs that prove positive results.<u></u><u></u></div>
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The White House called for foreign-assistance spending by the State Department and USAID to be cut by nearly one third, or more than $10 billion.<u></u><u></u></div>
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The spending cuts outlined in the summary "skinny budget" released Wednesday would require the approval of Congress. Mick Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said the White House will release in May a full budget for fiscal year 2018.<u></u><u></u></div>
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"Skinny budgets are tricky because they give you top line, but they don’t give you a lot of details," said Alicia Phillips Mandaville, vice president for Global Development Policy and Learning at InterAction, a membership group of international charities. "This one calls out some specific things but not always in ways we can tell what will come out in the subsequent, more detailed version."<u></u><u></u></div>
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Presidents never get everything they request, but the White House budget proposal is always an important and influential starting point for the months of tough negotiations that follow on Capitol Hill.<u></u><u></u></div>
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The stakes for nonprofits are high. Public charities get about one-third of all their revenue from government grants and fees for services, including Medicare and Medicaid payments, according to the Urban Institute’s National Center for Charitable Statistics. Nonprofit revenue totaled $1.7 trillion in 2013, according to the center.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Nonprofit leaders across the country reacted with dismay to the cuts proposed in the budget, which they characterized as deep and damaging. They say that if Congress enacts even a portion the cuts outlined by the Trump administration — which were proposed to help pay for a $54 billion increase in military spending — it will have far-reaching consequences for charitable programs and their beneficiaries.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">"This is an opportunity for a rallying cry," said Tim Delaney, president of the National Council of Nonprofits.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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He called on nonprofit leaders to examine how the potential cuts might affect their organizations and the people they serve. Then they can start reaching out to partner groups and state nonprofit associations to coordinate on advocacy with local representatives.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Nonprofits should emphasize how the cuts will affect the people they serve — not their organizations, Mr. Delaney said. "Nobody cares about whether nonprofits are getting hurt — or this corporation or that entity. The real concern is how this will affect the lives of individual Americans."<u></u><u></u></div>
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President Trump’s budget proposal would shutter multiple programs that serve low-income communities. It would eliminate the Legal Services Corporation, which provides legal representation for low-income people. It would also close the doors at several regional commissions that provide education, clean water, economic development, and health grants in low-income areas: the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Delta Regional Authority, the Denali Commission, and the Northern Border Commission.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Other programs that would be slated for closure include several U.S. Housing and Urban Development efforts to provide low-income housing, including the HOME Investment Partnerships, Choice Neighborhoods, and Self-Help Homeownership Opportunity programs.<u></u><u></u></div>
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The proposal also calls for a 17.9 percent, or $15.1 billion, cut in the Department of Health and Human Services. It doesn’t specify whether the Senior Nutrition Program, which supports Meals on Wheels groups across the country, would be cut.<u></u><u></u></div>
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"We don’t know how that will be spread out, but it is pretty frightening," said Ellie Hollander, president of Meals on Wheels America.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Donna Butts, executive director of Generations United, which supports social services for children and the elderly, is especially concerned about the proposed elimination of the Community Development Block Grant program. It provided $3 billion in grants in the current fiscal year to states, cities, and counties to provide job training, develop housing for low-income residents, build community centers, make loans to small businesses, and redevelop homes.<u></u><u></u></div>
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The block grants allow states and localities flexibility to design programs as they see fit. But because each recipient uses the grants differently, it can be hard to come together to fight the proposed cuts, according to Ms. Butts.<u></u><u></u></div>
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"It’s a blessing and a curse," she said. "When it’s block granted, it’s harder to rally a constituency. It makes it easier to cut."<u></u><u></u></div>
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Ms. Butts is bracing for more. She thinks the $1.5 billion Social Services Block Grant program, an entitlement program that supports foster care and adoption services and adult day care for the elderly, could be vulnerable. It was not included on the proposal, which only outlined cuts in discretionary programs. (Discretionary spending is implemented through appropriations bills, while spending on entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare is mandatory.)<u></u><u></u></div>
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Generations United and social-service organizations from all 50 states sent members of Congress a letter defending the program last week. But Ms. Butts fears that the deep cuts the administration has proposed throughout domestic programs will pit social-service groups against one another.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Nobody cares about whether nonprofits are getting hurt -- or this corporation or that entity. The real concern is how this will affect the lives of individual Americans.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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"We are stronger together, but some groups are starting to express a willingness to elevate their particular age group," she said. "Some of the groups are starting to splinter."<u></u><u></u></div>
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South Jersey Legal Services, which receives the majority of its funding from the Legal Services Corporation, last year handled more than 9,200 cases. Douglas Gershuny, the group’s executive director, said the proposed elimination of the Legal Services Corporation would reduce that number by a third.<u></u><u></u></div>
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"That means more unjust foreclosures and evictions resulting in homelessness," he said in a statement. Mr. Gershuny also worried that more domestic-violence victims would be unable to escape abuse, and more homeless veterans and hungry children would be denied government benefits.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Closing the Appalachian Regional Commission would be a "cruel disinvestment" from an area hit hard by the collapse of the coal economy, said Jake Lynch, spokesman for the West Virginia Community Development Hub.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Over the past two years, the commission has made $73 million in grants to improve life in coal production areas. Mr. Lynch’s group received $94,000 to mentor local community teams in ways to diversify their economies.<u></u><u></u></div>
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"The specter of ARC vanishing is really sad," Mr. Lynch said. "West Virginia could use some hope and could use some help, and ARC has been providing that."<u></u><u></u></div>
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Advocacy for the Arts<u></u><u></u></h4>
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities are among 19 independent agencies identified for elimination in President Trump’s budget.<u></u><u></u></div>
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The elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts would be a significant blow to the roughly 100,000 nonprofit arts organizations across the nation, said Robert Lynch, president of Americans for the Arts, a network of cultural groups.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Although the amount of money the endowment provides is small, cutting the NEA would disrupt other streams of funding for cultural organizations, he said. Almost all NEA grants are matched by state and local money, and campaigns for private donations are often built around NEA-funded projects, he added.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Ending the NEA would not put many arts organizations "out of business directly," he said. "But that’s really not the point — services will be reduced and survival will be a little bit harder."<u></u><u></u></div>
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The NEA has been a catalyst for growth in the arts since it was formed in the mid-1960s, he said. There were only four state arts councils before the NEA was formed, he said. Now all 50 states have them.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Ripple Effect<u></u><u></u></h4>
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John Gomperts, director of AmeriCorps from 2010 to 2012, said nonprofits with staff members who come to them through programs run by the Corporation for National and Community Service should be talking to their congressional representatives about why they are important.<u></u><u></u></div>
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"We have been, for the last 20-plus years, asking young people to step up and be leaders in their own communities in the county," said Mr. Gomperts, now chief executive of America’s Promise, which works to improve graduation rates, among other things. "It is such a red, white, and blue kind of idea."<u></u><u></u></div>
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"I understand the president is trying to give expression to a different set of priorities, but the notion of uninvesting, disinvesting, in young people on both sides of this equation just seems to me unfortunate and shortsighted."<u></u><u></u></div>
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The current appropriation for the Corporation of National and Community Service is $1.1 billion, up from $1 billion in 2016. The agency has sustained attacks from lawmakers and others before, some of whom questioned whether paid service is really service. Nonprofit leaders and champions of national service said they find it striking that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Trump-Pays-Little-Heed-to/239089&source=gmail&ust=1490390452521000&usg=AFQjCNEBh38neWgAIigSysN8SafqQu_tmQ" href="https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Trump-Pays-Little-Heed-to/239089" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">President Trump has not said much about volunteering and civic engagement</a>, breaking with decades of presidential tradition.<u></u><u></u></div>
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AnnMaura Connolly, president of the advocacy group Voices for National Service, said that eliminating the Corporation for National and Community Service would cost taxpayers money. She cited a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://cbcse.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/belfield.FranklinProject_EconomicValue_final-1.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1490390452521000&usg=AFQjCNGOTHstPZKFq5Q6MmXdIP_nKX8rKw" href="http://cbcse.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/belfield.FranklinProject_EconomicValue_final-1.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Columbia University study</a> that found that for every $10 spent by the federal government on national service, $15 was raised from private sources to pay for such work.<u></u><u></u></div>
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"By matching or exceeding federal support with private-sector dollars, national service programs lessen the strain on the federal government through partnerships with more than 1,100 community and faith-based nonprofits," Ms. Connolly said in a statement. Among those charities that rely heavily on national service programs are Habitat for Humanity, Catholic Charities USA, and the American Red Cross, she said.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Ms. Phillips Mandaville of InterAction said the proposed one-third cut to foreign assistance includes a reduction in U.S. support for and work with the United Nations and the World Bank.<u></u><u></u></div>
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"At a macro level, those things, added up, really potentially undermine our ability as a country to be engaged in the world," she said.<u></u><u></u></div>
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While many big U.S.-based aid organizations get more than half their revenues from government, others are mostly supported by private philanthropy. Those donors want to see the country continue to play a leading role in global health and development efforts.<u></u><u></u></div>
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"Part of what they are concerned about is not just how much money the United States is putting into something but the net effect on development and humanitarian outcomes if the U.S. withdraws like this," she said.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Spending on foreign aid accounts for less than 1 percent of the federal budget, Ms. Phillips Mandaville said, a good value considering it saves lives and protects U.S. interests. And she questions the choice to slash an already tight foreign-aid budget to pour more into defense spending.<u></u><u></u></div>
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"The same way that Thanksgiving dinner isn’t just about turkey, our global leadership isn’t just about the military," Ms. Phillips Mandaville said. "In dinner terms, what this budget does is propose to eliminate mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie in order just to get more turkey."<u></u><u></u></div>
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She and others in the development community said that U.S. foreign-aid spending has long enjoyed strong bipartisan support in Congress and that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Trump-s-America-First-/239440&source=gmail&ust=1490390452521000&usg=AFQjCNEIlEIRJn694naWzrk2PVQ5WkzIgQ" href="https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Trump-s-America-First-/239440" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">they hope lawmakers will reject proposed cuts</a> to that piece of the budget.<u></u><u></u></div>
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David Miliband, chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, said that slashing the U.S. foreign-aid budget endangers the country’s work to prevent and respond to global crises like ISIS and Ebola.<u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">“The notion of uninvesting, disinvesting, in young people on both sides of this equation just seems to me unfortunate and shortsighted.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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"Working to counteract these with a forward-leaning foreign-aid policy doesn’t just mean saving lives today but sparing the U.S. and its allies around the world the much more difficult, expensive work of combating them <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1787709276" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span>," Mr. Miliband said in a statement.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Taxes May Be Next<u></u><u></u></h4>
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The White House’s proposal did not include details on the administration’s plans for tax policy — so its views on the charitable tax-deduction were not included. Speaking at a rally in Tennessee <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1787709277" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span> night, President Trump said that a tax-overhaul bill would follow on the heals of health-care legislation.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Steve Taylor, counsel for public policy for United Way Worldwide, said he’s heard support for the charitable tax deduction in conversations he’s had with White House staff and members of Congress. Still, neither the administration nor legislators on Capitol Hill have ruled out that limits could be placed on the deduction as part of a tax-overhaul bill — which Republicans are hoping to pass this year.<u></u><u></u></div>
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Mr. Taylor said it’s hard to know where the GOP-controlled Congress will come down on the charitable deduction. "At the end of the day, Congress is looking for revenue that they can use for their big-picture plan, which is to lower taxes," he said. "And they’re looking under every stone for that revenue, so we are as vulnerable as any" group.</div>
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Trump's <a href="http://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/03/trumps_budget_boosts_military_but_cuts_gop_dem_favorites.html" style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(185, 225, 255); color: #0088ee; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">proposed budget </a>would eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Company for Public Broadcasting and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.</div>
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Together, those four agencies account for $1.02 billion in the federal budget, less than one percent of the total budget. Each channels money into Central New York's non-for-profit cultural and educational organizations.</div>
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In Syracuse, cutting the NEA would have the most visible impact. </div>
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CNY Jazz Central Executive Director Larry Luttinger said eliminating the NEA would create an "existential crisis" for local arts organizations like his.</div>
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"The overall domino effect from this action would be devastating," he said. "It's challenging enough running an arts organization in Central New York. We don't need a tsunami."</div>
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Over the last 10 years, the NEA has awarded more than $1 million to local organizations, including CNY Jazz, CNY Arts, the Erie Canal Museum, Light Work, the Everson Museum, Syracuse Stage, the Redhouse and Syracuse Opera, among others.</div>
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Additionally, about 40 percent of the NEA's funding is given to the states to dole out. The New York State Council on the Arts, which distributes money to local arts groups, received $751,675 last year. The Council supports things like the Everson Museum, the Onondaga Historical Association and the YMCA.</div>
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Light Work, a non-for-profit group that supports photographers, has been receiving NEA grants since the 1970s. They received $40,000 this year to support an artist-in-residency program.</div>
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Executive Director Jeffrey Hoone said the money is a small part of the organization's budget, but the grant is used to leverage other investment.</div>
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"Grants are done through peer review -- you're in competition across the country," he said. "When you get a grant, it means you've met certain standard of excellence. That's important in getting other funders to give money."</div>
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Hoone added that the money also demonstrates support of the arts, which "make life worth living."</div>
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Natalie Stetson is executive director of the Erie Canal Museum, which this year received a $60,000 NEA grant to present an Erie Canal documentary in cities along the canal, including a showing in Baldwinsville. </div>
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She said the money isn't part of the annual budget, but is used for special projects like the film -- things a small museum like hers could never afford otherwise.</div>
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Arts and culture program, she said, are always on the chopping block. Trump's recent proposal feels a little scarier, though.</div>
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"We're always asking not to cut our funding, probably since the NEA was founded," she said. "There was always a good deal of hope that representatives would listen to us. There's something in the air now that feels a little more real and a little more solid."</div>
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In all, Trump's budget would totally eliminate 19 agencies, including the NEA.</div>
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Some are well known, like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which provides money for television and radio networks, like Central New York's <a href="http://www.syracuse.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/03/wrvo_we_will_survive_trump_plan_to_pull_plug_on_public_broadcasting.html" style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(185, 225, 255); color: #0088ee; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WRVO</a>.</div>
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Others are less familiar, like the Institute of Museum and Library Services.</div>
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In addition to supporting museums like the Erie Canal Museum, the IMLS has given millions of dollars to Syracuse University's School of Information Studies to support research and education programs for students.</div>
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Dr. Ruth Small is Meredith Professor of Information Studies at the iSchool. She said she has received more than a dozen grants from IMLS since 2003. Those grants allow her to fund research projects with a national scope.</div>
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One such project created a database of thousands of lesson plans for teaching media literacy -- how to evaluate the authenticity of information, i.e. "fake news." Those plans are available to schools across the country for free. The iSchool maintains the database.</div>
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Small said the grants have partially or fully funded tuition and work for more than 100 students. </div>
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SU also receives less frequent grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Last year, the NEH awarded $50,400 to a Syracuse University professor to study the cultural impact of tea. Another group of professors is using a two-and-a-half-year, $29,879 grant from the NEH to create a digital cultural map of Onondaga Lake.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This month, we take a look at a few of the “hot button” issues in the news to explore how they affect nonprofits. The first topic, </span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_3334815180244459915_cybersecurity" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong>cybersecurity breaches</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, is all over the news, but the second, while still “hot,” is a bit of a sleeper: This month marks International Women's Day, which reminds us that </span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_3334815180244459915_paygap" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><strong>women leaders</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> are critical to any progress, whether economic or social. So now seems a good time to take a hard look at protecting our data and make sure each of our nonprofits offers women a welcoming and supportive launch pad for leadership. The common threads? </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Trust and accountability.</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Which brings us to perhaps the MOST common hot button issue we see in the news: the polarizing and divisive partisanship that makes us question whom to trust. Imagine if nonprofits were no longer nonpartisan. If nonprofits become seen as merely </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">extensions of political campaigns</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> they will no longer be safe spaces where people of all backgrounds and political persuasions can come together to solve community problems. That’s why the National Council of Nonprofits strongly opposes parallel efforts in Congress right now to repeal and weaken the </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">mandate that charitable nonprofits </strong><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>be nonpartisan</b></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. This issue is so important, and so urgent, that we are asking you to take immediate action: Show your support for nonpartisanship by signing </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27017%26qid%3D749727&source=gmail&ust=1489781135277000&usg=AFQjCNHWD7pSYqZOB9C1LVeGQMO5aqLKJQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27017&qid=749727" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">this Community Letter</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. Background </span><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#m_3334815180244459915_nonpartisan" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">about this issue is below</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. Together we must each send a strong signal to Congress that nonprofits insist upon remaining trusted and accountable organizations. Let’s focus on preserving that trust: by protecting personal confidential information, ensuring that women have equal opportunities for leadership, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> that donors’ gifts advance our missions and benefit </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">the community – not partisan political campaigns</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">At first glance, it may seem easy to shrug off cybersecurity as something that is only a concern for “big” nonprofits. But it's not. That’s why we encourage you to take a closer look at how your nonprofit collects and maintains data. Keeping your data house in order is just like producing accurate and timely financial reports for your board to review: it’s a matter of trust and accountability. No matter the size of your nonprofit, we are sure you will agree that protecting people from <em>physical </em>risks and protecting <em>financial assets</em> from theft are important. Protecting the <em>data your nonprofit collects</em> is based on the same principles of trust and accountability and is equally important. And, like putting “safety first,” cybersecurity is not only about ethics and accountability; it’s also about protecting your nonprofit’s reputation and avoiding lawsuits and/or penalties that can result from a data breach. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">This month individuals in countries <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27051%26qid%3D749727&source=gmail&ust=1489781135277000&usg=AFQjCNG9S0sv4ceJv2GTeCUMxCJjqQWcSA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27051&qid=749727" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">all over the world</a> observed International Women’s Day; in some places through strikes and protests, and in others with festive celebrations. The day brings attention to the social, economic, cultural, and political achievement of women, plus the goal of “gender parity.” Research shows that in the US women are still not paid “on parity” with men performing the same jobs. The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27052%26qid%3D749727&source=gmail&ust=1489781135277000&usg=AFQjCNFSth3uNR8__3xq2krCDdNRD2CC-A" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27052&qid=749727" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">National Partnership for Women & Families</a> reports that on average white women earned 80 cents for every $1 earned by a man, and at least <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27053%26qid%3D749727&source=gmail&ust=1489781135277000&usg=AFQjCNHZ80kqdRoEO8UsAkOjBwMzsXHakA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27053&qid=749727" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">one study</a> (a year earlier) concluded that in the nonprofit sector the gap widens to only 75 cents on the dollar. The gap is even wider for women of color in the American workforce, with African-American women working full-time paid just 63 cents and Latinas typically paid only 54 cents for every dollar paid to a white, non-Hispanic male working the same job. “<em>Women’s median earnings are lower than men’s in nearly all occupations, whether they work in occupations predominantly done by women, occupations predominantly done by men, or occupations with a more even mix of men and women</em>,” reports the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27054%26qid%3D749727&source=gmail&ust=1489781135277000&usg=AFQjCNGSClMmMNPwTA985LpcWbk8eYS03g" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27054&qid=749727" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Institute for Women’s Policy Research</a>. While the average gender pay gap is 20%, depending on the job category it ranges from 52% to 111% and spans all types of jobs: “<em>There is only one occupation —‘bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks’–where women have the same median weekly earnings as men</em>.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We hope every one of our readers will join the almost two thousand (so far) nonprofits, foundations and for-profit entities across the country that care about the effectiveness of charitable nonprofits, by signing this <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27017%26qid%3D749727&source=gmail&ust=1489781135278000&usg=AFQjCNGI8z1B-1yNAr3tqUwYn4yJoC348g" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27017&qid=749727" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Community Letter in Support of Nonpartisanship</a> to keep nonprofits out of the political fray. Proposals in Congress right now seek to repeal or weaken the current law that protects charitable nonprofits and foundations from partisan, election-related activities providing that - in exchange for tax-exempt status and the ability to receive tax-deductible donations - 501(c)(3) organizations may not endorse or oppose candidates or spend money on campaign contributions or other partisan activities. This law, which is sometimes called the “Johnson Amendment,” has been a bedrock principle protecting public trust in our sector since 1954 when President Eisenhower signed the tax reform bill of that year.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The many local and national organizations that have signed <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27017%26qid%3D749727&source=gmail&ust=1489781135278000&usg=AFQjCNGI8z1B-1yNAr3tqUwYn4yJoC348g" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27017&qid=749727" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">the Community Letter</a> all feel strongly that the current law protects our sector and the people we serve from aggressive demands for political endorsements by candidates and from efforts to divert mission-dedicated assets to campaign contributions. In short, by signing <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D27017%26qid%3D749727&source=gmail&ust=1489781135278000&usg=AFQjCNGI8z1B-1yNAr3tqUwYn4yJoC348g" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=27017&qid=749727" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">the Community Letter</a>, our readers’ organizations can join thousands of others in resisting efforts to turn charitable nonprofits – that are currently trusted community problem-solvers - into politicized pawns of politicians.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #0081c7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;">What's New at NRMC?</span></strong><span style="color: #0081c7; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If you missed our updates in recent RISK eNews articles, you'll be happy to hear what our team has accomplished since <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_158736970" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">January 1st</span></span>!<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Our newest team member, Project Manager <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001udrmXHdc_Yzxv62okI9HMymZ0QsBJI42FR0DtTxalrHgQBcVYGuu28QrKYV8v7-GY5DfrDtCi5I8viebmVmV0-23U03yni4JzlLBiDxCGQWagAM43pxtq70j1npOe9b_EOXcIJ00YBPAU5A27BUSIXPmntWwfCOwY4E4pwSB6yFQKGKxIOrfF0AxR34_ZTtLb-Lf4cvcu20%3D%26c%3D7EnB6NN2E1v1mwx9gSdjPrF02E2rdBI0p03mKercdBunCDfKEqeOYw%3D%3D%26ch%3DMXnJmuPpqKXbu6K4P37XQrYnoBZh69ukhbKH2TsBwa5OT9iavWOvjw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1489545600346000&usg=AFQjCNERoSiAP5hdLjvcmdkMXPcOr0ixRA" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001udrmXHdc_Yzxv62okI9HMymZ0QsBJI42FR0DtTxalrHgQBcVYGuu28QrKYV8v7-GY5DfrDtCi5I8viebmVmV0-23U03yni4JzlLBiDxCGQWagAM43pxtq70j1npOe9b_EOXcIJ00YBPAU5A27BUSIXPmntWwfCOwY4E4pwSB6yFQKGKxIOrfF0AxR34_ZTtLb-Lf4cvcu20=&c=7EnB6NN2E1v1mwx9gSdjPrF02E2rdBI0p03mKercdBunCDfKEqeOYw==&ch=MXnJmuPpqKXbu6K4P37XQrYnoBZh69ukhbKH2TsBwa5OT9iavWOvjw==" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Eric Henkel</b></a>, led the launch of our new <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001udrmXHdc_Yzxv62okI9HMymZ0QsBJI42FR0DtTxalrHgQBcVYGuu21NxbEeiQJBOhJSJ3NHlh8rWsqC6EvFX4YbsO7lAL77XBgNCAhDyLaSB6NHxEbEGnQnT0x5urnK7ESl8UDmL0kOcxB3GEntmZGq55ZRiptSfpspF2U_itGzQ6NXF2Ft5tf2-uQq0qPiW-G3zbdKc47w%3D%26c%3D7EnB6NN2E1v1mwx9gSdjPrF02E2rdBI0p03mKercdBunCDfKEqeOYw%3D%3D%26ch%3DMXnJmuPpqKXbu6K4P37XQrYnoBZh69ukhbKH2TsBwa5OT9iavWOvjw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1489545600346000&usg=AFQjCNF_RaX8fyhDW4VuQZqHfZpVnXK-ag" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001udrmXHdc_Yzxv62okI9HMymZ0QsBJI42FR0DtTxalrHgQBcVYGuu21NxbEeiQJBOhJSJ3NHlh8rWsqC6EvFX4YbsO7lAL77XBgNCAhDyLaSB6NHxEbEGnQnT0x5urnK7ESl8UDmL0kOcxB3GEntmZGq55ZRiptSfpspF2U_itGzQ6NXF2Ft5tf2-uQq0qPiW-G3zbdKc47w=&c=7EnB6NN2E1v1mwx9gSdjPrF02E2rdBI0p03mKercdBunCDfKEqeOYw==&ch=MXnJmuPpqKXbu6K4P37XQrYnoBZh69ukhbKH2TsBwa5OT9iavWOvjw==" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Risk Benchmarking App</b></a> to allow nonprofit leaders to compare their risk management functions to those of other organizations.<u></u><u></u></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We announced <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001udrmXHdc_Yzxv62okI9HMymZ0QsBJI42FR0DtTxalrHgQBcVYGuu21NxbEeiQJBOFYhHFZrCtOUCtqrNnQJumuY9WhryMfCJdplhOujc6qvridf-_EQtlgnhXKBA4mCHFInO3MydM1ZyGcoVnUw6zaStlVmnI5AsEIMV2CExfHhyKgqkVcZZ0tTy40X6gGJUTPvSLF3NDyg%3D%26c%3D7EnB6NN2E1v1mwx9gSdjPrF02E2rdBI0p03mKercdBunCDfKEqeOYw%3D%3D%26ch%3DMXnJmuPpqKXbu6K4P37XQrYnoBZh69ukhbKH2TsBwa5OT9iavWOvjw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1489545600347000&usg=AFQjCNF5oEjkwhNMPXBo2gAGkFTy0R2n5A" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001udrmXHdc_Yzxv62okI9HMymZ0QsBJI42FR0DtTxalrHgQBcVYGuu21NxbEeiQJBOFYhHFZrCtOUCtqrNnQJumuY9WhryMfCJdplhOujc6qvridf-_EQtlgnhXKBA4mCHFInO3MydM1ZyGcoVnUw6zaStlVmnI5AsEIMV2CExfHhyKgqkVcZZ0tTy40X6gGJUTPvSLF3NDyg=&c=7EnB6NN2E1v1mwx9gSdjPrF02E2rdBI0p03mKercdBunCDfKEqeOYw==&ch=MXnJmuPpqKXbu6K4P37XQrYnoBZh69ukhbKH2TsBwa5OT9iavWOvjw==" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Jeremy Sutton</b></a> as keynote speaker for the Risk Summit, our annual conference, which takes place in Philadelphia this <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_158736971" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">September 17-19</span></span>.<u></u><u></u></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kay Nakamura, our Director of Client Solutions, welcomed five new <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001udrmXHdc_Yzxv62okI9HMymZ0QsBJI42FR0DtTxalrHgQBcVYGuu2_NFyEtVuyze1dPyoBaIVX9OOqfKHy85VRuIZfW2EwgxSY0iXkV7GIVUz89_gIflaYvymQoFmBhx9QNCRQlH5Xb7ynB-bwQwaKQCQAJdOgDxtf1o3vkx4GlkAnRDYli0smwtL2OVCcM-qiQHlanC3iEKIrXe2JleWw%3D%3D%26c%3D7EnB6NN2E1v1mwx9gSdjPrF02E2rdBI0p03mKercdBunCDfKEqeOYw%3D%3D%26ch%3DMXnJmuPpqKXbu6K4P37XQrYnoBZh69ukhbKH2TsBwa5OT9iavWOvjw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1489545600347000&usg=AFQjCNFMpNupurLdGFX0HBTArODPCBnwGA" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001udrmXHdc_Yzxv62okI9HMymZ0QsBJI42FR0DtTxalrHgQBcVYGuu2_NFyEtVuyze1dPyoBaIVX9OOqfKHy85VRuIZfW2EwgxSY0iXkV7GIVUz89_gIflaYvymQoFmBhx9QNCRQlH5Xb7ynB-bwQwaKQCQAJdOgDxtf1o3vkx4GlkAnRDYli0smwtL2OVCcM-qiQHlanC3iEKIrXe2JleWw==&c=7EnB6NN2E1v1mwx9gSdjPrF02E2rdBI0p03mKercdBunCDfKEqeOYw==&ch=MXnJmuPpqKXbu6K4P37XQrYnoBZh69ukhbKH2TsBwa5OT9iavWOvjw==" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b>Affiliate Members</b></a> into our Affiliate Member community.<u></u><u></u></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">CEO succession planning arises as a strategic risk and key concern of nonprofit boards in many NRMC-led Risk Assessments. If you're looking for an article about CEO succession planning, this is not it. Instead, review our popular article, <em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001udrmXHdc_Yzxv62okI9HMymZ0QsBJI42FR0DtTxalrHgQBcVYGuu2wUC8Au23Z3yGtIBNM6fMkTGvaPJ98CWtaqE5I4-Wg3An2q6eL1w8qQvsgkQzJU6koRDQDfZ0RavGD2pG_yj8cdoi9VkMr2WuxhQ5eo9Qk98u7TdqSrqAEFkW5NsxK6-YQHMIfGSREOv_QBAOejFj-AsoyDne3P8pLujSZzCa5kJPLErsrw5TXGwPB2l4t877Tk0TzuBkfVIoFV67BGELzzXsF49JaFsRw%3D%3D%26c%3D7EnB6NN2E1v1mwx9gSdjPrF02E2rdBI0p03mKercdBunCDfKEqeOYw%3D%3D%26ch%3DMXnJmuPpqKXbu6K4P37XQrYnoBZh69ukhbKH2TsBwa5OT9iavWOvjw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1489545600347000&usg=AFQjCNHhtAXbxm6EN7-4ENhV6wWtUpCGiA" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001udrmXHdc_Yzxv62okI9HMymZ0QsBJI42FR0DtTxalrHgQBcVYGuu2wUC8Au23Z3yGtIBNM6fMkTGvaPJ98CWtaqE5I4-Wg3An2q6eL1w8qQvsgkQzJU6koRDQDfZ0RavGD2pG_yj8cdoi9VkMr2WuxhQ5eo9Qk98u7TdqSrqAEFkW5NsxK6-YQHMIfGSREOv_QBAOejFj-AsoyDne3P8pLujSZzCa5kJPLErsrw5TXGwPB2l4t877Tk0TzuBkfVIoFV67BGELzzXsF49JaFsRw==&c=7EnB6NN2E1v1mwx9gSdjPrF02E2rdBI0p03mKercdBunCDfKEqeOYw==&ch=MXnJmuPpqKXbu6K4P37XQrYnoBZh69ukhbKH2TsBwa5OT9iavWOvjw==" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Avoid Transition Trauma with a Succession Plan</a></em><i>.</i></span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> article explores succession planning for nonprofit leaders <i>other than the CEO</i>. Eureka moments often occur during our consulting engagements when nonprofit teams realize the CEO is one of many individuals whose departure could cause 'transition trauma.' Read on for inspiration for establishing a non-CEO succession planning process.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #5fa137; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Why Succession Planning is NOT Defining a Successor</span></strong><span style="color: #5fa137; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">While many organizations practice the literal form of succession planning--defining a successor or #2 person waiting in the wings--the NRMC team does not support this approach. This approach is problematic as many nonprofits are too small to have an internal pool of potential C-suite leaders or backups for any key positions. Plus, any nonprofit leader would be woefully naïve to believe that a talented, C-suite material staffer would wait around for her chance to take up the mantle as a key player on the team. And if your designated #2 departs for any reason, then the succession plan is suddenly kaput.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Instead of defining actual successors for any key leadership roles, we believe that succession planning should be about <i>the planning process</i> and <i>having an actual plan in place</i> to help your organization effectively manage inevitable staff transitions. Using CEO succession planning as an example, the board is charged with establishing a succession plan that it will implement when the existing CEO is suddenly unavailable or announces her plan to leave. The succession plan should provide instructions--originally developed and approved by the board itself--that the board will now follow to conduct activities including: determining any shifting needs the nonprofit has for its incoming CEO, revamping and advertising the CEO job, filling the role temporarily with an internal or external candidate, vetting CEO candidates, hiring the selected candidate, and managing the transition and onboarding of the incoming CEO when the time is right.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If you're confident that the activities above are occurring at your organization, then you've laid the groundwork for managing leadership transitions. Now it's time to adopt an approach to succession planning.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Depending on the size, complexity, and culture of your organization, your approach to non-CEO succession planning could be either formal or informal for certain roles. Generally speaking, succession planning for non-CEO roles will be far less formal than CEO succession planning, since there is no need to engage the board in planning for leadership transitions of other key staff.</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The NRMC team often recommends a collaborative succession planning approach, allowing the relevant departmental or functional teams to participate in the search and hiring process for their own staff colleagues and even department heads. Team-based hiring enables you to seek and select new hires based on the perspectives of your diverse team members, and team-based hiring also encourages the recruitment of new staff leaders who are truly welcomed and approved by many of their soon-to-be peers and direct reports. These benefits can cultivate feelings of positivity and ownership among staff while reducing stress associated with leadership transitions.<br /><br />If your HR team typically takes the lead on employee recruitment, then consider involving both HR and the department with open roles. Breaking down these silos will produce myriad benefits including gratification for HR staff whose employment practices expertise might be overshadowed by the work of programmatic staff, and an appropriate division of labor between HR and the initiating department, which promises to ease common recruitment pains that occur when these functions are out of sync (e.g., unrealistic expectations for personnel budgets and hiring/screening timelines, inaccurate position descriptions, ineffective onboarding that is either too general or is too role-specific, etc.).</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Whether it's your first foray into non-CEO succession planning, or you're a succession planning veteran just looking to revitalize your approach, your best bet is to rely on the intimate knowledge your own peers have of your organization. Leverage your team to cross-train each other and volunteer as backups, to manage staff transitions, and to seek out new colleagues who truly embody the spirit of your mission.</span></div>
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Erin Gloeckner is the director of consulting services at the Nonprofit Risk Management Center. Erin invites you to say hello or share your thoughts about succession planning at <a href="mailto:Erin@nonprofitrisk.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Erin@nonprofitrisk.org</a> or <a href="tel:(703)%20777-3504" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+17037773504">703.777.3504</a>.</span></em></div>
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The executive director of a Brooklyn nonprofit dedicated to providing affordable housing, social services and youth programs has personally received a percentage of profits from past development deals, an arrangement in his contract that charity watchdogs call a red flag.</div>
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That is one of several unusual financial details <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Crain's</em> found in the operating statements of the Local Development Corp. of Crown Heights. The nonprofit, considered a trusted resource in the African-American community in Crown Heights, was brought on by developer BFC Partners earlier this month to help overcome local opposition to a proposed mixed-income apartment and recreation complex on city-owned land.</div>
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The revelations alarmed experts in nonprofit administration, who said the payouts to Executive Director Caple Spence cast doubts about the organization's management.</div>
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"This is not normal," said Ken Berger, the former chief executive of Charity Navigator, the largest nonprofit evaluator in the country, after reviewing the organization's Form 990 financial disclosures from 2015.</div>
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The nonprofit's involvement in the city-led effort to redevelop the Bedford-Union Armory in Crown Heights raises questions about why it was selected by BFC Partners and how it will help manage a half-million-dollar fund that is part of the project.</div>
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For-profit developers often partner with charities to win over community members who are skeptical of a project's promise of social and economic benefits. When developments undergo public scrutiny, nonprofit partners can deflect criticism because making money is not their primary goal. They also often bring specialized skills and sometimes allow projects to qualify for subsidies that would not otherwise be available to for-profit enterprises.</div>
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In late 2015 a team including BFC and Brooklyn nonprofit CAMBA won a competitive bid to transform the city-owned armory with a proposal to build market-rate condos and rentals around it. The developments would help pay for new affordable housing, a low-fee sports and recreation facility, and community and office space. CAMBA, which specializes in housing, economic development and education programs, is set to run the day-to-day operations at the rec center and provide discounted or free activities to nearby residents.</div>
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But <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160808/BLOGS04/160809911/new-york-city-should-not-have-awarded-housing-deal-to-slate-property-group-buyer-of-contentious-nursing-home-local-groups-say" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #b3272b; cursor: pointer; outline: none;">despite that partnership, community members continue to oppose</a> BFC's $195 million plan. They said the entire project should be dedicated to affordable housing. In September New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony pulled his support, and another early partner, Slate Property Group, dropped out amid controversy surrounding an unrelated nursing home sale on the Lower East Side.<br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /><strong style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;"><br style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;" /></strong>In reaction to increasingly vocal opponents, BFC principal Donald Capoccia announced in early March that <a href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170301/REAL_ESTATE/170229876" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; color: #b3272b; cursor: pointer; outline: none;" target="_self" title="Nonprofit joins push for Crown Heights armory project">BFC was bringing in the Local Development Corp. of Crown Heights</a>, which has deep roots in the community. The group planned to hold meetings, reassure residents that the development was in their best interest, seek out minority- and women-owned businesses to participate and explain why the market-rate units in the project are vital to its success. In addition, the nonprofit would manage a fund seeded with $500,000 from BFC—and potentially boosted by future revenue from the project—that is designed to build additional affordable housing elsewhere in the working-class but gentrifying neighborhood.</div>
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Spence's employment contract, as detailed in his 2015 state filing, was structured to give him a cut of the nonprofit's development deals, allowing him to take a 10% share of profits the charity earned and 20% of what the nonprofit received from developer fees—money the city or state pays developers for working on affordable-housing projects. It was unclear whether the development corporation and BFC would get developer fees for the Bedford-Union project and if the revenues would be divided between them. The charity is involved only with the condo portion of the project, according to the city. Regardless, Spence's compensation arrangement is rare in the nonprofit world, experts said.</div>
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Nonprofit executives' compensation is generally a fixed amount. That ensures they are not pursing deals for personal gain, according to <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Nonprofit Compensation, Benefits and Employment Law</em>, a book by David Samuels and Howard Pianko. And unlike for-profit businesses, nonprofits are required to reinvest any leftover money in the organization. When compensation is based on profit percentages, pay can fluctuate year to year, meaning that in some years extra money might flow to executives, just like at a for-profit business. Berger said such fluctuations could draw the eye of state and federal regulators, who can seek to recover payments they deem improper.</div>
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The Local Development Corp. of Crown Heights' 2015 filings stipulate that this arrangement boosted Spence's total compensation to a maximum of $312,000 in a given year, which one lawyer <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Crain's</em> spoke with said makes the arrangement more palatable. But Berger still found it troubling. "The fact that the questionable number has a cap on it doesn't make it any less questionable," Berger said.</div>
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And Spence has pulled in quite a bit more than that amount in the past.</div>
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In 2014 the nonprofit reported about $752,000 in revenue, mostly in fees from affordable-housing buildings it manages. Yet Spence took home around $1.15 million in total compensation that year, including base pay, bonuses and about $956,000 in retirement and other benefits. The payouts resulted in an operating loss at the charity of more than $1 million.</div>
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A lawyer for the group said 2014's compensation was an anomaly that likely stemmed from a split-dollar life insurance policy that was transferred to Spence in lieu of other retirement benefits. Split-dollar policies, which are paid in part or full by an employer,are sometimes used as incentives for high-ranking nonprofit employees. And premiums, which the charity will get back after the policy is paid out by the insurer, can be put down in one year instead of the cost being spread out over several. But the incentive is more often used by larger organizations, according to Gregg Hirsch, an attorney specializing in insurance products at Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass. The football coach at the University of Michigan, for example, has a split-dollar life insurance policy.</div>
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Even excluding 2014, however, Spence's average compensation was about $318,000 between 2007, the first year he's listed as executive director in the organization's publicly available filings, and 2015, the year when the salary cap is detailed. Executive pay can vary across organizations depending on the work and how prized the person's skills are, but experts noted that Spence's compensation seemed high relative to the size of the nonprofit. In 2015, for instance, the head of a Bronx affordable-housing nonprofit of similar scale made less than half of Spence's average compensation. Even executives at much larger affordable-housing firms, such as the Fifth Avenue Committee and the St. Nicks Alliance, made no more than three-quarters of Spence's compensation.</div>
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"I would say this salary falls into the range of screwiness," said Odell Mays, an adjunct lecturer at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies, who reviewed the organization's annual 990 filings for 2007 to 2015 for <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Crain's.</em> "There is a lot of stuff in here that is ripe for being questioned."</div>
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If a charity or executive does exceptionally well, he said, high compensation can be justified. But the Crown Heights nonprofit might have a hard time proving it is far outperforming its peers. In 2007, Spence's first year as executive director, he completed the organization's first ground-up development, a 173-unit senior residence in east Flatbush. The project pushed the corporation past $100 million in total construction spending for the first time.</div>
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"This award-winning project moved [the organization] beyond its humble beginnings as a redeveloper of old walk-up tenement buildings to a full-fledged developer of modern mid-rise apartments for its community," the group wrote on its website.</div>
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Three years later Spence completed a 143-unit senior residence in Crown Heights. In total he has brought in millions in revenue for the nonprofit, his lawyer said, noting that the executive's compensation package was drafted with the help of an outside specialist. Spence has continued to run several education and senior centers.</div>
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But Spence has not completed a major project since 2010. And under his leadership, the charity ran an operating loss for seven of the nine years between the beginning of 2007 and the end of 2015.</div>
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Plans to open a charter school, which videos on the nonprofit's website show Spence discussing as far back as 2013, never came to fruition. The costs involved made the idea unworkable, the organization said.</div>
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Nevertheless, Spence continued to receive perks that are unusual for small nonprofits. A 2013 filing showed he took out a personal loan of $166,000 from the nonprofit at 5% interest. Although charities sometimes make personal loans to employees, they are typically amounts akin to a paycheck advance, Mays said. At the very least, the board would typically require a written agreement for a loan of that size, yet it was issued without one, according to the state filings. Spence's lawyer said the corporation has largely been paid back.</div>
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Potential missteps over executive compensation are often avoided in the tax- exempt world by having a board of directors with a wide range of professional experience who can push back on anything they deem improper. To get Charity Navigator's stamp of approval under Berger's leadership, boards had to consist of at least five people, he said. The Local Development Corp. of Crown Heights has just three. Two of them are also listed as executives of the First Baptist Church of Crown Heights, the religious organization founded by the late Rev. Clarence Norman Sr. The house of worship is the institution from which the charity gets its neighborhood clout.</div>
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Norman, who was a highly influential figure in the Crown Heights community, started the local development corporation in 1987 to further the mission of his church. After his death in 2015, a local street was named after him and his wife. The organization has retained its connections in the neighborhood and currently manages about 670 units of affordable housing. "We have been looking out for the community for more than 30 years," Spence told <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;">Crain's</em> at the announcement of his group's participation in the project. "We have worked with several government agencies, state and city," he added, "and we have a close working relationship with the elected officials." He has since referred all questions to the organization's lawyer, who would speak only on background.</div>
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Clarence Norman Jr., son of the late pastor, was a powerful Democratic Party boss in Brooklyn until he was convicted on campaign finance charges and sentenced to several years in prison. Spence said in a recent news report that Norman Jr. acts as a consultant to the local development corporation. He even listed himself as a contact for the organization during a meeting the city hosted for nonprofits interested in a community land trust. But according to reports, he is not working on the armory project.</div>
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BFC Partners said it picked the nonprofit because it was seeking to join forces with an organization with "deep community roots."</div>
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"After more than a year of community engagement, there was consensus among Crown Heights stakeholders that [it] would be the most appropriate local, nonprofit partner for the Bedford-Union Armory project," BFC said in a statement. "The ... team's deep community roots and our comprehensive approach to this project will ensure that the armory is a success for all Crown Heights families."</div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In the weeks since President Trump vowed to “totally destroy” the Johnson Amendment – the language in Section 501(c)(3) that protects charitable nonprofits, foundations, and religious congregations from being exploited as partisan tools – nonprofit and religious leaders across the country have been standing up for nonpartisanship. They oppose both total and partial destruction, as proposed by new legislation in Congress (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25226%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNGZwxuWqTF_M8gSGhLJD7leOgGkjA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25226&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">S.264</a>; <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25227%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNFxRFLtLoRDQx6b179ZxZFXTecXKA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25227&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">H.R.781</a>) that would blur the current clear language that conditions tax-exempt status in part on not engaging in partisan, election-related activities for or against candidates for public office. Most commentators emphasize the legal reality that nonprofits are free to express their views on the issues of the day – public policy matters that are distinct from partisanship for political purposes – and are only restricted in that they cannot give endorsements or campaign cash/support to officials for elected office.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The National Council of Nonprofits has taken a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25228%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNEZPR-SI2E8L-MBpfVdriaa1tFmlA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25228&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">strong stance in support of nonprofit nonpartisanship</a> and has created a dedicated webpage on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25229%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNFsqhIeyiqNL0zGWame8RV2Ms6fNg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25229&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><strong>Protecting Nonprofit Nonpartisanship</strong></a> with analysis and other resources on this serious challenge to nonprofit identity, independence, and integrity. Readers are asked to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25230%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNG4qf2j3QVlw67C791VajCzHzbdyQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25230&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">share your insights</a> on what repeal or revision of the Johnson Amendment would mean to your operations and to the integrity and trust of the nonprofit community. We seek your input on how best to communicate the benefits of nonpartisanship, and to help imagine the challenges that would arise if nonprofits were subject to demands for endorsements by politicians, their operatives, and politically motivated donors. Provide <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25230%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNG4qf2j3QVlw67C791VajCzHzbdyQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25230&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">your insights today</a>! <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="m_-6384234138154282802giving" name="m_-6384234138154282802_giving"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Nonprofits, Foundations Show Support for Charitable Giving Incentive<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nonprofit and foundation leaders from across the country traveled to Washington, DC, last week to make the case to Congress that the charitable giving tax incentive is an effective tool for supporting good works in communities. Organized by the Charitable Giving Coalition, the 100 Years of Charitable Giving DC Fly-In enjoyed the participation on Capitol Hill of 200 individuals from 37 states and the District of Columbia. Teams of nonprofit staffers, board members, and funders attended numerous meetings with Senators, Representatives, and staff to deliver key messages about the importance of retaining the charitable deduction as lawmakers consider comprehensive tax reforms this year. Responses from elected officials ranged from unambiguous support (“I’m with you”) to questions about data and impact and uncertainty about when and how the tax-reform process will play out. The Fly-In demonstrated that the nonprofit and foundation communities are united in support of preserving the charitable deduction that was first enacted in 1917 (hence the “100 Years” designation). Fly-In participants also advanced proposals to expand this giving incentive so it is universally available to all Americans to support their communities through enactment of a non-itemizer deduction.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="m_-6384234138154282802agenda" name="m_-6384234138154282802_agenda"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ambitious Congressional Agenda Confronts Obstacles, Delays<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The calendar for the ambitious legislative agenda that congressional leaders announced earlier this month is already slipping due to opposition, overload, and disagreements over policy solutions. The stated goal of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act in March is looking unlikely as lawmakers in the majorities of the Senate and House disagree on many substantive points, leading to a proliferation of bills rather than consensus on one package. Comprehensive tax reform remains a high priority, but a late-July deadline now appears to have given way to promises of action “this year.” One factor in the delays is opposition by Senate Democrats to President Trump’s cabinet and other nominees, opposition which has led to many late-night sessions and prevented action on legislation. Further, the House and Senate won’t take up tax legislation until the healthcare reform bill is concluded due to arcane budget rules that permit certain legislation to go to the Senate floor without needing 60 votes to overcome a filibuster. Certain agenda items remain tied to the calendar. The deal in 2015 to put off action on the federal borrowing limit expires in mid-March and the continuing resolution that funds the federal government expires <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_853479730" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">April 28</span></span>. While some priorities may fail to materialize, the primary questions remain when and in what form legislation will be enacted.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Federal <em>FastView</em><u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="m_-6384234138154282802eo" name="m_-6384234138154282802_eo" style="color: #222222;"></a><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Draft Executive Order on Immigration. </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The National Association of Counties is raising concerns that if a draft presidential executive order is signed that targets legal immigrants who are not U.S. citizens, such as green-card holders, it will increase administrative burdens and costs for states and counties – as well as many nonprofits. According to<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25231%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNHTbcFu8-Gzg_lavzaG3p1DgFOyZw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25231&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><em>Governing</em></a>, “Immigrants can currently be deported for using cash welfare or long-term institutionalized care.” But if the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25232%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNFHHiCr3CGWdKDwTVePvFf9hpLLsQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25232&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">draft executive order</a> is signed, “they could be deported for using any federal benefit given ‘on the basis of income, resources or financial need,’” which would include free or reduced school lunch, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Medicaid/ Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and food stamps (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP). Until now, nonprofits generally have not been responsible for determining a person’s immigration status in order to provide services or report an individual’s status.<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="m_-6384234138154282802census" name="m_-6384234138154282802_census" style="color: #222222;"></a><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Census Dubbed a High-Risk Federal Program</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: Rapidly escalating costs of conducting the U.S. Census have caused the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to declare the 2020 Census as a “high-risk area needing attention by Congress and the executive branch” due to “greater vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement or the need for transformation to address economy, efficiency, or effectiveness challenges.” The GAO found that the cost of the census has been escalating over the last several decennials; the 2010 Census was the costliest U.S. Census in history at about $12.3 billion, about 31 percent more than the 2000 Census (in 2020 dollars). Placement of the 2020 Census on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25233%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNHy9uP6WaW-__ltnBs5TQJWq_v77Q" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25233&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">GAO’s High Risk List</a> draws greater attention from Congress to numerous recommendations for reforms. Since GAO's last high-risk update in 2015, GAO found that many of the 32 high-risk areas have shown solid progress due in part to the concerted efforts of Congress and leadership and staff in agencies, including enactment of over a dozen laws to help address high-risk issues.<u></u><u></u></span></li>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="m_-6384234138154282802prop" name="m_-6384234138154282802_prop"></a><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Action Heats Up on Nonprofit Property Tax Legislation<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Every year, states consider scores of bills designed to adjust, restrict, or even expand property tax exemptions of nonprofits and foundations. This session of state legislatures is presenting greater diversity of issues and activity. Seeking to close a $1.7 billion budget deficit, <strong>Connecticut’</strong>s Governor Malloy is proposing that the state save money by ending its longstanding <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25234%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNHbo66tVCYn53rZvqhzdfQDXAT8ug" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25234&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">reimbursements</a> to localities to cover tax revenues they theoretically lose from hospitals being exempt from taxation. But, his budget also seeks to authorize towns and cities to<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25235%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNEHtFg8ro8THQ0WtRoopzZUeL_a_A" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25235&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title="Day news coverage"> levy property taxes </a>on the land and buildings of nonprofit hospitals. Running counter to this erosion of consistent nonprofit tax law, two bills (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25236%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNEvY7-8oatmWQSH-KK4hlaV8u--TA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25236&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">HB 6675</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25237%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNE5-JRHm0W8QDzLmyoOL_r--sPdcw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25237&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">HB 6934</a>) in <strong>Connecticut</strong> would permit municipalities to abate property tax for property used for arts or culture, including art galleries, art studios, installation galleries, movie theaters, performance venues, and retailers catering to or relating to the arts.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Oregon</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> has several bills that propose changes to property tax treatment for nonprofits. One <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25238%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNG_0IAeRjWhxLtQs30qug8dJC69sQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25238&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">affects limited liability companies</a> owned by nonprofits, two (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25239%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNEBh2Zg9ACmbcw43FuNylrsikWM8w" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25239&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">HB2047</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25240%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNFPjzbWisC9mTGTifbxMJ3W_LEYUw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25240&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">HB2115</a>) deal with expanding the exemption for health clinics, and other proposals would <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25241%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNFk2YZERiCTngQbcTpJw8aWhVQpCA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25241&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">expand informational filings</a> and create a study on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25242%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNHmL9U0fW6eIDCPuz5vDIpvmztMLA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25242&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><em>ad valorem</em> property taxation</a>. <strong>Virginia</strong> legislation would expressly authorize local governments to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25243%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNHlU-J4y_Dk0_MCU5LpMJlAzERvJQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25243&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">enter into mutually agreeable terms</a> with entities exempt from real property tax for the payment of service charges.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Finally, a <strong>Montana</strong> bill sought to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25244%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNE1XM5kHIRZozEu5f1gv7N3pw9azA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25244&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">remove the property tax exemption</a> for any nonprofit that pays compensation greater than $250,000. The bill sponsor reportedly was concerned about competition between hospitals, which pay higher salaries, and small businesses. The legislation was soundly defeated in the State House of Representatives last week, based on arguments in support of nonprofits pursuing their mission and a desire not to enact legislation that interferes with the free market. The defeat of the bill is significant because the linkage between executive compensation and nonprofit property tax exemption has also been made in legislation in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25245%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNGn_oIv3cd5xSGx2L9bNSTf9pjIaw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25245&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><strong>Connecticut</strong></a> and elsewhere.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Illinois</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: The Pay Now Illinois coalition has <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25246%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNGXI14YgXayxb0vVyfYPxAtZDdzDg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25246&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">filed a second lawsuit</a> against Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner in an attempt to get paid for a wide variety of social services nonprofits provide to people, such as sexual assault victims, senior citizens, and low-income children, after a temporary budget expired in January. The suit contends the lack of a balanced budget violates the Illinois state constitution.<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kansas</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">: After years of cutting taxes, the Kansas Senate is looking to repeal an LLC exemption and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25247%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421963000&usg=AFQjCNF55ZNJEI_OylVkgnQ6uAcDd8iaFQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25247&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">raise individual income tax rates</a>, estimated to generate $230 million a year.<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Minnesota </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Governor Dayton’s <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25248%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNFrVOTLWec_tvZt99Mzp8rEDX9lZg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25248&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">budget includes several expansions</a>: to the sales tax exemption to all 501(c)(3)s; to the working family credit; and access to health care.<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nebraska</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> legislators voted to give final approval on a budget that would reduce the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25249%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNGnDKekCnoMzYyYADgoE6--_HlpIg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25249&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">$900 million budget gap to $760 million</a> through across-the-board cuts, specific cuts, and taking back unspent dollars.<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Pennsylvania</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Governor Wolf proposes <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25250%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNFeFO7OeoAMm61qvTZ9DaxrcrRjVg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25250&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">cuts and agency consolidation</a> under a $32.3 billion spending plan for next year. <u></u><u></u></span></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Despite half the states experiencing budget deficits, a few are considering restoring or expanding incentives for charitable giving. <strong>Massachusetts</strong>legislation would <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25251%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNHGuCAenBQoDh3AsAN9BSeag-_JBg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25251&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">bring back the charitable deduction</a> that hasn't been available to Bay State taxpayers for several years because of a restriction in current law related to state revenues. A bill in <strong>Oregon</strong> would establish a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25252%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNF0kv-efZHqUpTVfMSfQTNRY1GX1Q" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25252&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">personal income tax credit</a> of $50 (single) or $100 (joint) for contributions to charitable organizations. That credit, if enacted, would only be available to taxpayers with less than $100,000 (single) or $200,00 (joint) in adjusted gross income. <strong>Utah</strong> legislators are considering a measure that would create a state <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25253%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNFn5e3-akhR_hOikqf2ynmVVaVJnw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25253&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">non-refundable tax credit</a> for certain contributions to a nonprofit related to an approved project in an enterprise zone.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Legislators in <strong>Kentucky</strong> and <strong>Massachusetts</strong> have recently introduced bills seeking to create commissions designed to improve their respective government-nonprofit contracting systems. Throughout 2016, Kentucky’s legislative Government Nonprofit Contracting Task Force evaluated contracting challenges that nonprofits face when providing services on behalf of the Commonwealth. Following up on the recommendations of that Task Force, legislation would create a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25254%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNF4xGeNi080OWIP1CXs_GDuZEPUdA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25254&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">government nonprofit contracting advisory commission</a> charged with reviewing and providing periodic reports regarding laws, regulations, and policies that negatively affect nonprofit government contracting. In Massachusetts, a bill would create a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25255%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNFCbfsD3KUHjXFM2UBXn49TFmM1Og" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25255&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">special commission on government-nonprofit partnerships</a> made up of government and nonprofit representatives. The Massachusetts commission would, among other things, identify methods to improve efficiency in grant and contracting systems, seek to eliminate redundant, unreasonable, or unnecessary laws that negatively impact nonprofit-government contracting or funding, and investigate ways to increase the use of data and technology to inform decision-making and oversight.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The 100 Years of Giving Fly-In brought more than 200 nonprofit advocates together on February 16 to make the case before Congress that the charitable deduction tax incentive is vital to the work of nonprofits in communities throughout the United States. Individuals traveled from 37 states plus DC by cars, trains, and airplanes to lobby their Senators and Representatives. And as impressive as their presence was on Capitol Hill that day, colleagues who couldn't make it to town still made the effort to raise their voices in support.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">For instance, when distance and timing prevented in-person presentations, several people called into the congressional offices while coalition meetings were taking place to join the discussions. Others, like Mike Walsh of the Foraker Group in Alaska, Skyped (participated via video conference) into the meetings to provide the personal connection.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Numerous state associations of nonprofits joined in lifting the voices of their nonprofit members. Whether traveling to DC for the charitable giving fly-in event or communicating from a distance, many reinforced their message by delivering strong letters of support. The letters - samples of which appear below - consistently challenged Senators and Representatives to evaluate tax reform proposals based on this question:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">“Does a potential tax policy change enhance, or does it undermine, the ability of individuals to secure essential services, to enjoy the programs and activities that enhance their quality of life, and uplift the spirit of faith, innovation, and inspiration in communities across [the state]?”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25256%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNHs_v0-rMT6_HKgr5a2nkd9EqpHuA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25256&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Utah Nonprofits Association</a>, which was hosting its own nonprofit lobby day in Salt Lake City on the same day, urderscored that “[m]ultiple elements of the Internal Revenue Code affect the operations and resources of charitable nonprofits, including individual tax rates, the standard deduction, the estate tax, and many more.” While recognizing that all are “extremely important and must be resolved in the context of other changes,” Kate Rubalcava, Executive Director of the association, focused UNA’s letter on “the primary charitable giving tax incentive – the charitable deduction” and sought the support of Utah’s U.S. Senators and Representatives “in not only protecting it, but also enhancing it as a viable tool for encouraging individuals to give back to their communities through the work of charitable nonprofits.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25257%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNFKIDwnqA3UhNuTcuYxkHHc27DylA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25257&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Michigan Nonprofit Association</a>, in letters to all members of the Michigan delegation in Congress, emphasized, “Michigan’s nonprofit sector employs one in 10 Michiganders, paying more than $4.9 billion per quarter in wages.” Donna Murray-Brown, President and CEO of MNA, continued, “As taxpayers, as providers of essential services in communities, and as partners with governments in strengthening Michigan, we are very interested in ensuring that federal tax reforms improve and do not undermine our ability to serve Michiganders every day.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Likewise, the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25258%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNHn-QlAxPJXGsP7vEl3QUoY7NtW7Q" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25258&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations</a>, in a letter from its Executive Director, Anne Gingerich, highlighted the giving patterns in the commonwealth: “This giving incentive is not just used by the wealthy; Pennsylvania residents across all income levels dig into their own pockets to help their neighbors. Of the 1.4 million Pennsylvania tax filers who claimed itemized charitable contributions in 2014, some 256,500 of them were filers with an adjusted gross income of less than $50,000.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Through its President and CEO Linda Czipo, the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25259%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNFfqV6BgG6WsJUHuu6sG688iUfcMA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25259&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Center for Non-Profits</a>pointed out that the need is great by sharing that “in New Jersey, the most recent IRS data available indicate that charitable giving, as measured by federal charitable tax deductions claimed by New Jersey households, was still below 2007 pre-recession levels in 2014.” The <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25260%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNHU438U_XyzgXFjCHlJtDj0sLpA3g" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25260&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">North Dakota Association of Nonprofit Organizations</a>’ Executive Director Dana Schaar Jahner emphasized that support for the giving incentive is broad, based on results of a survey it commissioned last year that found “a majority of North Dakotans said charitable giving tax deductions and credits are important.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The letter from the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25261%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNH9427KkKue-2pSqExqFGDZG9HmHQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25261&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">North Carolina Center <em>for</em> Nonprofits</a> provided insights into how charitable giving could be impacted by multiple changes in the tax code as part of the comprehensive tax reform process. “Since many tax reform proposals call for increasing the standard deduction, the addition of the non-itemizer deduction would go far to overcome the likely decrease in charitable giving that most economists predict will otherwise occur as the number of itemizers decreases,” Trisha Lester and David Heinen of the NC Center wrote.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">This bi-weekly newsletter on public policy issues affecting nonprofits is provided as a benefit of membership in the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25262%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNG5PhRTDexVVf6QyZtyqFpymlilnw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25262&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">New York Council of Nonprofits</span></a>, part of the state association network of the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25263%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421964000&usg=AFQjCNHBjkBa-S41TPZJaepdjA7NpkT_GA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25263&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">National Council of Nonprofits</span></a>.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“The Johnson Amendment has been the target of politicians and preachers who want to politicize pulpits. They may not own up to that fact, but the truth is they want to leverage the voting mass of congregations to turn elections in their favor. They lust for … the ability of the clergy to direct the political clout of the faithful by telling them how to vote.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">--“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25264%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421965000&usg=AFQjCNHu6s-DicaRYsk8S1IzBOLbxD5EdQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25264&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Johnson Amendment repeal would ‘destroy’ church unity</span></a>,” Marv Knox, editor, <em>The Baptist Standard</em>, February 8, 2017.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> “Politicians would love to be able to claim a church's stamp of approval as "God's favorite candidate’…”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">--“<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25265%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421965000&usg=AFQjCNGyv-3E1eh5_AObV-iAP-6spSrz4A" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25265&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">How Abolishing the Johnson Amendment Would Harm Religious Liberty</span></a>,” Greg Hamilton, President, Northwest Religious Liberty Association, in ReligiousLiberty.TV, February. 9, 2017.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“Believe me, once endorsements are permitted they will become expected. Not only will it tear individual houses of worship apart, but it will divide those that could otherwise work together. All of them will be labeled for their political orientations, first and foremost. You may as well affix an elephant or a donkey instead of a cross on your church, because that is how it will be seen – a Republican church or a Democratic one. Preachers that do not endorse will be derided as pusillanimous and lacking conviction.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">- <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25266%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421965000&usg=AFQjCNHT_PIrQr11wDuWQOW0B44oEM20Jg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25266&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">A Rabbi Defends the Johnson Amendment</span></a>, David Wolpe, <em>The Atlantic</em>, February 19, 2017.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“While it can appear that the exchange of a First Amendment right for tax exemption is disproportionate, the reality is that the only thing such entities are constrained from doing is endorsing or opposing specific candidates. On all other matters political, preachers, universities, foundations and other charities can give their concerns full airing.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">- “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25267%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421965000&usg=AFQjCNGZSJlBv14tALjStP1aQbm0N1q0XQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25267&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Keep the Johnson Amendment</span></a>,” editorial, <em>National Catholic Reporter</em>, February 18, 2017, expressing strong support for retaining the current tax-law prohibition on nonprofit political activity (known as the Johnson Amendment) and correcting misperceptions of what is and is not permitted.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25269%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421965000&usg=AFQjCNFAYOA4xR6nGoEEaweeYGPEVF4UcQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25269&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Losing the Johnson Amendment Would Destroy the Unique Political Role of Nonprofits</span></a>, editorial, <em>Nonprofit Quarterly</em>, February 6, 2017, rebutting the arguments in support of repealing the Johnson Amendment and highlighting the important protections that the tax-law ban on partisan, election-related activities afford charitable nonprofits.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25270%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421965000&usg=AFQjCNGGE_GS5vDN8JWR3r7LSRPzro8FWg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25270&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Obamacare Repeal Remains Elusive</span></a>, Lou Cannon, <em>StateNet Capitol Journal</em>, February 16, 2017, providing a comprehensive review of the challenges confronting congressional policymakers in seeking to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25271%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421965000&usg=AFQjCNEX2qQ-tWwxpYXnQfJ-vUbhOyHquQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25271&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Tax reform outlook: Frequently asked questions</span></a><em>, </em>Grant Thornton, January 30, 2017, addressing the most common questions on the likelihood that tax reform will occur and providing a summary of the core elements of the currently available tax reform proposals.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Percentage of the public who believe that houses of worship should not endorse candidates for public office, a percentage which is “roughly stable with other readings over the past eight years.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">February 22, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25277%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421966000&usg=AFQjCNGaymhJ2z7YOlGaqiRfCWWhW1uNcQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25277&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Coffee with Congress</span></a>, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">February 24, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25278%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421966000&usg=AFQjCNEtq4zrkoqUOCihpxlIAy7q5HexSA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25278&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Capitol Lab</span></a>, Minnesota Council of Nonprofits<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">March 9, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25279%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421966000&usg=AFQjCNFJtyz2uUx8TSialUp9n9aPOtkUpw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25279&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Advocacy Amplified Series</span></a>(Western Slope), Colorado Nonprofit Association<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_853479731" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">March 13-17</span></span>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25280%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421966000&usg=AFQjCNEV5doQ125BJIDO_TmzgJNstaBzrw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25280&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Weeks at the Capitol – Week I</span></a>, CT Community Nonprofit Alliance<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_853479732" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">March 14</span></span>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25281%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421966000&usg=AFQjCNF-_yja04iO-YgPJhgogpjnytEmgA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25281&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Advocacy Amplified Series</span></a>(Denver), Colorado Nonprofit Association<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_853479733" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">March 16</span></span>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25282%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421966000&usg=AFQjCNGd7TgK3ZMbiWDXMJ4e8Jyrxdvizw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25282&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Advocacy Basics</span></a>, Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_853479734" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">March 20-21</span></span>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25283%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421966000&usg=AFQjCNEQKxXJ6X1MhDCI0Di29E9rI7ykDg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25283&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Public Policy Forum & NC Nonprofits Day</span></a>, North Carolina Center <em>for</em>Nonprofits<u></u><u></u></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_853479735" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">March 23</span></span>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25284%26qid%3D690979&source=gmail&ust=1489527421966000&usg=AFQjCNFfGHC41KQZ2oNaizbcik1anQI-3Q" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25284&qid=690979" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">2017 Vermont Nonprofit Legislative Day</span></a>, Common Good Vermont</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.5pt;">Oppose Efforts to Repeal or Weaken<br />the “Johnson Amendment”<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Is it too much to ask that the charitable nonprofit and foundation community be respected and protected as the safe space from the damaging effects of partisan politics? The immediate answer from scores of 501(c)(3) leaders so far – and potentially tens of thousands of organizations – is – <strong>No, it is not too much to ask that nonpartisanship remains a cornerstone principle of what it means to be a charity or a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25925%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310900000&usg=AFQjCNHUOZxFCmNcU3vYgLCZi8C4W_YIBA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25925&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"></a></strong></span><u></u><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25925%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310900000&usg=AFQjCNHUOZxFCmNcU3vYgLCZi8C4W_YIBA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25925&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><img align="right" alt="Sign the Community Letter" border="0" class="CToWUd" hspace="6" src="https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/ZlRZZ52AAbdFLyxitZX3vKetZag6l8CWU7nceHFHtrU8fRbf7w4M7RZ_-XFmv9UeQibBKrtMSgrX2YJ_koA1tIR0YkXE8ZulxOxWztbgpjhRiEWLfReUs2U8KxU3kU0bDhDX6T3mWQ9xq1HOaXFudiXv8k-d-RFDaqbx=s0-d-e1-ft#https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/contribute/images/act-now.png" vspace="6" /></a><u></u><b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25925%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310900000&usg=AFQjCNHUOZxFCmNcU3vYgLCZi8C4W_YIBA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25925&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"></a></span></b><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">foundation</span></strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">. By signing onto the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25925%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNEd3X811trmcUVJCrHf9x4r5xUyrA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25925&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Community Letter in Support of Nonpartisanship</a>, charitable nonprofits, private foundations, religious groups, and their vast numbers of supporters can send a clear signal to Congress and the Administration that partisan politics has no place in the 501(c)(3) community. Join others from across the country to show that we intend to resist any and all efforts to weaken or repeal this longstanding protection in federal tax law that keeps 501(c)(3) organizations away from endorsing, opposing, or contributing to political candidates.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Why Nonpartisanship Matters<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nonpartisanship is a cornerstone principle that has strengthened the public’s trust of the charitable community. In exchange for enjoying tax-exempt status and the ability to receive tax-deductible contributions, 501(c)(3) organizations – charitable nonprofits, including religious congregations, and foundations – agree to not engage in “<strong>any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office</strong>.” The quoted and highlighted text is often referred to as the “Johnson Amendment” because it was proposed by then-Senate Minority Leader Johnson to legislation signed by President Eisenhower in 1954.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">That provision of law protects the integrity and independence of charitable nonprofits and foundations. It shields the entire 501(c)(3) community against the rancor of partisan politics so the charitable community can be a safe haven where individuals of all beliefs come together to solve community problems free from partisan divisions. It screens out doubts and suspicions regarding ulterior partisan motives of charitable organizations, as undoubtedly would occur if even just a few charitable organizations engaged in partisan politics. Nonpartisan credibility is critical to the ability of 501(c)(3) organizations to work with elected officials of all parties at the local, state, and federal levels to address community needs.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Weakening the law by allowing leaders of individual 501(c)(3) entities to endorse candidates for public office and engage in limited partisan electioneering activities would damage the integrity and effectiveness of all charitable organizations and spawn litigation as innovative partisans seek to expand gray areas in the proposed legislation. Repealing the Johnson Amendment would damage the federal Treasury as people take tax deductions for political contributions they could then funnel through charitable nonprofits, undercut fair elections by providing a loophole to avoid campaign contribution disclosure laws, and empower politicians to exert pressure for access to foundation assets and charitable funds for their own partisan campaigns rather than for the public good.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Issue: Whether the Johnson Amendment Needs Fixing<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In recent weeks, the President vowed to “get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment,” the Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee said he intends to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25926%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNEZGM5kxkoHZfPidDhh6f35WIQuVQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25926&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">repeal</a> the law as part of comprehensive tax reform, and the House Majority Whip became a lead sponsor of one of the bills to weaken the protection. That legislation (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25927%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNE__GhU2Zd-8jezVm0vZE22UEtVZA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25927&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">H.R.781</a>; <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25928%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNFMfMwjjTZOLe6nSWIE53aHeggUbw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25928&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">S.264</a>) would blur the current clear language (quoted above) that conditions tax-exempt status and the ability to receive tax-deductible contributions in part on not engaging in partisan, election-related activities for or against candidates for public office.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Proponents of the legislation, primarily a subsection of the broad religious community, generally focus on perceived restrictions on preachers who say they want to speak out about issues of the day, plus endorse candidates from the pulpit. Most commentators, however, emphasize the legal reality that charitable nonprofits, including religious congregations, already are free to speak on important matters of the day and advocate on public policy issues and legislation. Private foundations, while barred from most lobbying activities, are free to engage in public debates, promote public education efforts, and fund a wide range of issue-focused activities. Section 501(c)(3) of the federal tax code merely prohibits campaign intervention, defined to include endorsing or opposing candidates for public office, publishing or distributing statements for or against candidates, or using tax-deductible and other resources to support partisan campaign activities. See the recent <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25929%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNH5i5LW2QNHYoIPGwtB6VAsJg3qnA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25929&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><em>Chronicle of Philanthropy</em>article</a> for a more detailed description of the arguments.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Who’s on the Side of Nonpartisanship?<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">(and opposes changes to the Johnson Amendment)</span></em><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Charitable nonprofits and foundations from across the country are beginning to express strong opposition to any efforts to politicize our community by altering the tax-law ban on partisan, election-related activities. The National Council of Nonprofits has taken a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25930%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNHEvbFyxh1DmZv7Ay_1Vs9Wg6kG6A" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25930&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">strong stance in support of nonprofit nonpartisanship</a> as have several other mainstream nonprofits and associations, including <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25931%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNGmdvWNr2FL17ylDkshsKn42Z75xA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25931&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Association of Fundraising Professionals</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25932%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNGZMa61ilF2EYngk9_ygZ3NVR_SUQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25932&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">BoardSource</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25933%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNFYd771xZuMegnb6v8YqcsM2Rpa6g" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25933&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Independent Sector</a>, and (so far) <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25934%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNHbh6EONrytO2m3MUVqjbcM2O0H6A" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25934&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">23 state associations of nonprofits</a>. Although the issue is frequently couched as a concern to some preachers, numerous faith-based organizations, such as the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25935%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNH1ihd2ag9ToMVFmF4umpMB5VYK2Q" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25935&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25936%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNHQ8N2jCd222fI1zrMzLTjzD9VvBA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25936&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Faith Voices Arkansas</a>,<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25937%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNEZFn7VUxvKlJl9KiMVjg7yPKnnrA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25937&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Interfaith Alliance</a>, and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25938%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNHvVBWow7otD7Bs8kgVYDYQIALtPg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25938&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">North Carolina Council of Churches</a>, have expressed strong opposition to changes in the law. Likewise, the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25939%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNFPtUnZnpcNR93QhFHB2pjq7PxHZA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25939&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Council on Foundations</a> issued a strong statement in support of maintaining nonpartisanship as the hallmark of philanthropy.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Is it Legal for My Organization to Sign Onto the Community Letter in Support of Nonpartisanship?<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As noted above, charitable nonprofits have the right to lobby on many legislative issues. Signing the <strong>Community Letter in Support of Nonpartisanship</strong> is consistent with that legal right. The lobbying rules for private foundations are more restrictive, but in this case organizations, such as the Council on Foundations, have determined that signing onto the letter is legal. The Council on Foundations published a statement clarifying that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25940%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNGlWDmGA_liroYQ8pQDv8UDIzNOxw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25940&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">foundation lobbying on this issue is legal</a> under the “self-defense” exception.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What Good Will It Do to Sign the Community Letter in Support of Nonpartisanship?<u></u><u></u></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nonprofit and foundation voices matter. A small minority of individuals in the religious community have made the case to some political leaders that allowing churches and charities to endorse political candidates would be good for those preachers and politicians. The truth is that the vast majority of nonprofit and foundation leaders not only oppose changing the law, but see repeal or revision of the Johnson Amendment as being very harmful to the identity, independence, and integrity of our community. As with many issues, numbers matter. The more charitable nonprofits, foundations, religious congregations, and their many supporters – accounting firms, law firms, corporations that care – that stand up for the community and their missions by supporting nonpartisanship, the stronger is the message that changing the Johnson Amendment is unpopular and viewed as destructive by real people back home. Your voice matters!<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“With this editorial, <em>NPQ </em>now adds its voice to those who resist any repeal of the Johnson Amendment, and we urge others to do the same. The nonprofit sector should assertively protect itself and the public from this baldly partisan effort.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">-- “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25943%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNGBHmiJ7GsREAJFyxGKnAEx0K_ZDA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25943&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Losing the Johnson Amendment Would Destroy the Unique Political Role of Nonprofits</span></a>,” editorial, <em>Nonprofit Quarterly</em>, February 6, 2017, and quoting, among others, Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute: “Church members could give tax-deductible donations to a church, which would then be used by the church to campaign for a specific candidate. It could effectively turn churches into campaign offices and pastors into party operatives.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">"Politicizing churches is not a solution to a problem – it is a problem in search of a problem.” - “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25944%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNEdf5JOms29hbnzCAdG873TBH6SUw" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25944&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Politicize our charities and churches? No, thanks</span></a>,” Amanda Tyler, Executive Director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, Religion News Service, February 9, 2017.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“[W]ith the Johnson Amendment, preachers are totally free to attack greed, support health care, wrestle with war, decry injustice and anything else at the intersection of biblical faith and public policy. We are free to preach on these critical matters which are, first of all, issues of faith planted firmly in the Bible. Preachers can go at the issues full-on – and then let the people decide who gets their vote.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">- “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25945%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310901000&usg=AFQjCNHVwn9y7QcsQUXOZSlyZAlvI-pQTQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25945&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">On religious liberty and the Johnson Amendment</span></a>,” Rev. Jean Larson, ret., <em>Missoulian</em> (MT), February 18, 2017. The Johnson Amendment, she continues, “supports the integrity of churches. It keeps churches from being pawns of big money and restrains the partisan hijacking of our pulpits.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“The Johnson Amendment has been the target of politicians and preachers who want to politicize pulpits. They may not own up to that fact, but the truth is they want to leverage the voting mass of congregations to turn elections in their favor. They lust for … the ability of the clergy to direct the political clout of the faithful by telling them how to vote.” “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25946%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310902000&usg=AFQjCNH0vRB2VPfQ2ykgAq3mwGnweoVCNg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25946&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Johnson Amendment repeal would ‘destroy’ church unity</span></a>,” Marv Knox, editor, <em>The Baptist Standard</em> (Feb. 8, 2017).<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">“The Johnson Amendment, thankfully … keeps the political parties out of our churches. Can you imagine if churches could become a political organ of the Republican or Democratic Parties? Can you anticipate the money and muscle that would be spent to convince church leaders to advocate for one side or the other?”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">- “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25947%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310902000&usg=AFQjCNF8DFqVe0lQM9Lp2xc3jr8PktOkaQ" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25947&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Why we need the Johnson Amendment</span></a>,” Mathew Whoolery, instructor at Brigham Young University–Idaho, Idaho <em>Standard Journal</em>, February 13, 2017. Whoolery added, “I realized that my time in church, worshipping, is one of the only safe places left in my life where politics doesn’t intrude.”<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25931%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310902000&usg=AFQjCNEowfMjuakgCQYhYCuk9upwcvS_Pg" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25931&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Association of Fundraising Professionals Position on Repeal of the Johnson Amendment</span></a>, February 22, 2017<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u%3D25933%26qid%3D720987&source=gmail&ust=1489467310902000&usg=AFQjCNF7nAN-wH2dRUXyLya25u3f5uJlJA" href="https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=25933&qid=720987" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #385d8b;">Independent Sector Statement on the Johnson Amendment</span></a>, February 2, 2017<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's party time....</span></em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Help us celebrate our 90th Birthday this week (official birthday is March 3rd) <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f%3D001wu9BWRenNgExdNz0N79QGRlvpPMek3vivY3ELHB8w2hr8GZ9cKAopC0WIhsqsOX-FV3yJ6c0VjfX6x3Dj-BO8r_JFLO-d3OkNuzVzvg8a9rHDhLyVVAp2Zk1jZBEDJDnz5UEzXyKIS2vIxQmrDYW3qcNyOvAgRAhxX3hWUimLnLXNqIiVeouo4lnNES4YvnG%26c%3DvaXUFU-kr3GLHa5Euma8TDu3Sr-HD0tPLh34TVsha2aNc38c0Tb_fg%3D%3D%26ch%3D14M69-GB_icBguyWtZ8T_tEtf_vUYOuSxk-AkNLpgF5cLXrLIpjTdg%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1489278880056000&usg=AFQjCNE5tyg-pWNS9jnJ2VS9k6-7rDWM9w" href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001wu9BWRenNgExdNz0N79QGRlvpPMek3vivY3ELHB8w2hr8GZ9cKAopC0WIhsqsOX-FV3yJ6c0VjfX6x3Dj-BO8r_JFLO-d3OkNuzVzvg8a9rHDhLyVVAp2Zk1jZBEDJDnz5UEzXyKIS2vIxQmrDYW3qcNyOvAgRAhxX3hWUimLnLXNqIiVeouo4lnNES4YvnG&c=vaXUFU-kr3GLHa5Euma8TDu3Sr-HD0tPLh34TVsha2aNc38c0Tb_fg==&ch=14M69-GB_icBguyWtZ8T_tEtf_vUYOuSxk-AkNLpgF5cLXrLIpjTdg==" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">on Facebook</a>!<br /><br />We'll be looking back at memorable moments, posting milestones (like a list of our earliest nonprofit members) and notable photos of board and staff through the years (oh, the fashion flashbacks!) <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Presented by David M. Rottkamp, CPA, Audit Partner & Not-for-Profit Practice Leader; Grassi & Co. | New York City Office - Partner-In-Charge</span></em><span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<u></u><img align="right" class="CToWUd" height="42" hspace="5" name="m_-5887875331547222375_ACCOUNT.IMAGE.1283" src="https://ci5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/-ltncuWW8Pj92E-k3NdJRDLQrLpxWi7boPvSCg6bRWX09PY7RAmDKEkrsDHNHbQHKh3_X_17h3VzxDglr8yfj7b9m1raRJEp-iUQbXQnE902FYuMG7b2d2hRAyCuuUwawDR0SvWwhwD1fWI=s0-d-e1-ft#http://files.constantcontact.com/59c7a286001/659848ac-9cab-4ec4-8e78-ac0d8d72cfb6.jpg" vspace="5" width="238" /><u></u><span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">As you may already know, The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued in August 2016, the long-awaited proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) for Not-for-Profit Entities and Health Care Entities and also Presentation of Financial Statements of Not-for-Profit Entities. The standard represent the most significant changes in nonprofit reporting rules since 1993. Practically speaking, what does this really mean for your nonprofit? When do we have to implement these changes? How do the changes translate to what you see in your audited financial statements? Does this change how and what we prepare for the audit? Will these changes effect what we see on the form 990? Join us for a 90-minute webinar giving practical guidance for the "non" accountant and seasoned CFO alike.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Board members steer their organization towards a sustainable future by adopting sound, ethical, and legal governance and financial management policies and ensure the organization has adequate resources to advance its mission. This session will provide both experienced and novice board members with a critical orientation on the responsibilities, knowledge, and skills needed to be an effective board member. Nonprofit boards are more similar than they are different, but each board must make important and thoughtful decisions on how they will function<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br />Despite many nonprofit arts organizations having limited administrative staff, funders (and regulators) have expectations regarding their organization's internal controls, regardless of budget or staff size. Many of NYCON's nonprofit members experienced the challenges of documenting internal controls when prequalifying in the NYS Grants Gateway to receive state funding. A question we hear consistently is, "How can we possibly create, document and consistently apply complex Internal Control processes in an organization with limited capacity?" This training will offer a common sense approach to documenting simple, yet effective internal control processes that allow your organization to demonstrate accountability, efficiency, and a commitment to safeguarding your organization's assets.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;">This webinar is part of the NYSCA Statewide Organizational Development Services program provided by NYCON via our partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.</span></em><span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Cost: DCRCC/NYCON members: $30 ; Non-members: $40</span></em><span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Among their key responsibilities, board members set financial management policies and ensure the financial health of their organizations. This session is intended to introduce participants to the fundamentals of nonprofit financial oversight. We will focus on how to read common financial statements and asses the financial performance of a nonprofit, as well as outlining the key financial planning processes boards must undertake in order to carry out their fiduciary duties.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">The process of prospecting, identifying, applying for, accepting, delivering upon, and monitoring a grant to your nonprofit can be exciting and challenging. The best approach to this complicated process is to be strategic and proactive, and to develop as many tools and resources as possible to maximize the impact of the grant, and to thwart problems before they become serious. In this webinar, the first in an ongoing series, we examine how to get ready to "prospect, prepare, and plan" for grants by discussing key components of an organization's grant readiness and how to begin best positioning your organization to effectively and efficiently research and apply to potential donors.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">For better or worse (we hope mostly for better) the world of online fundraising has effectively changed the game for many small nonprofits. New online tools and donation processing portals have put the substantial power of technology into the hands of worthy charities that may not be able to afford it just a year or two ago. However, this "brave new world" of fundraising does not allow organizations to ignore the compliance rules and regulations when it comes to fundraising in New York. Have you ever wondered what your organization's responsibilities were when soliciting donations? Have you wondered if you've registered properly as a tax-exempt New York State nonprofit? Do you have your charitable solicitation license? Whether it be by tried and true methods (mailing annual appeals) or branching out (email or social media appeals) or even taking advantage of online community fundraising events (like Giving Tuesday or NYGivesDay) this webinar will help ensure that you know the steps to annual fundraising compliance, give you tools and resources to complete those steps and a place to go if you should need help bringing your organization into compliance with New York laws.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #01456a; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">A two-day retreat for Executive Directors, Financial Staff, Board Members, Practitioners, Fundraisers, Marketing & Communications Staff, Development Staff & More at Mohonk Mountain House <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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Applications must be postmarked or received via email by<span class="m_-5713681682810876746apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Wednesday,</b> <b>March 1, 2017</b>.<span class="m_-5713681682810876746apple-converted-space"> </span>DHPSNY awards services to a limited number of institutions in three areas: <b>Archival Needs Assesments, Preservation & Conservation Surveys</b>, and <b>Strategic Planning</b> assistance. Visit our </span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://dhpsny.org/planning-assessment&source=gmail&ust=1488052154396000&usg=AFQjCNG4L2yz-frOGVFyJ9zbOmxRklWiYg" href="http://dhpsny.org/planning-assessment" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3775a9; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Planning & Assessment page</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> to learn more about each and determine which is right for your organization.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><br /><br /><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Archival Needs Assessments </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">provide assistance in archival program development tailored to specific organizational needs.</span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://dhpsny.org/archival-needs-assessments&source=gmail&ust=1488052154396000&usg=AFQjCNENVEkvKJNfjb2x3e8jqwAZp0AsAA" href="http://dhpsny.org/archival-needs-assessments" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3775a9; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Click here to learn more and download the application.</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><br /><br /><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Preservation & Conservation Surveys </span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">assess an institution's preservation needs, focusing on preventive care and mitigating deterioration and damage.</span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://dhpsny.org/preservation-and-conservation-surveys&source=gmail&ust=1488052154396000&usg=AFQjCNGFyLD3K0o0orHJTNQBorBVT12tcw" href="http://dhpsny.org/preservation-and-conservation-surveys" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3775a9; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Click here to learn more and download the application.</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><br /><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Our<span class="m_-5713681682810876746apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><b>Strategic Planning </b>curriculum was developed in partnership with the New York Council of Nonprofits (NYCON) and is designed to assist small- to medium-sized institutions.</span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://dhpsny.org/strategic-planning&source=gmail&ust=1488052154396000&usg=AFQjCNF6fmvmRr1fKf8ZP2yRB-h9hc7d1A" href="http://dhpsny.org/strategic-planning" style="background-color: white; 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Please contact Program Coordinator Anastasia Matijkiw for assistance or additional information at <a href="tel:(215)%20545-0613" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+12155450613">(215) 545-0613</a> or<span class="m_-5713681682810876746apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="mailto:amatijkiw@dhpsny.org" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3775a9; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">amatijkiw@dhpsny.org</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #403f42; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">. <wbr></wbr>Applications are open on a biannual basis, and the next application round will be in fall 2017.</span><br />
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David M. Rottkamp</span> of West Islip, a CPA and partner at Grassi & Co. in Jericho, has been appointed board chair of the <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Council of Nonprofits</span> in Albany.</div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jennifer Ackroyd</span> of Southold, assisted-living administrator and skilled nursing assistant administrator at Peconic Landing in Greenport, has joined the board of directors for the <span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Alzheimer’s Association Long Island Chapter</span> in Melville.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02025396019812118890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585184027051379018.post-71971385546642320882017-02-19T13:23:00.001-08:002017-02-19T13:34:37.284-08:00Minimum Wage Increase Pinches NonprofitsSmall businesses across upstate are cutting hours, reducing staff and taking other measures to cope with the costs of a higher minimum wage.<br />
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Nonprofit administrators, already pinched by tight budgets, are finding the minimum wage increase is adding to the daily turmoil of operating an organization dependent on dwindling government grants, donations and a pushback from clients as they try to raise fees to cover the higher wage expense.</div>
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Most community-based nonprofits are locked into federal, state and local contracts that will not honor the increased employee costs that the wage increase brings, meaning that nonprofits would have to use or raise charitable dollars to subsidize the increase, said Doug Sauer, chief executive of the New York Council of Nonprofits. Most don’t have these funds to allocate so they cut back on staffing and services.</div>
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“It should be noted that this wage increase is also alongside increases in workers comp and unemployment rates, and raises at the state level of what constitutes an exempt employee,” Sauer said. “There is a triple if not quadruple whammy on mandated employer costs.”</div>
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As of now, the state government does not fully compensate nonprofits that they contract with for additional mandated costs of doing business, and most government contracts with nonprofits also do not pay the full cost of nonprofits’ services, Sauer said. There is a significant effort underway to see that the state does compensate the additional cost.</div>
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Because of undercompensation, nonprofits either lose money on state contracts or they have to find other sources to subsidize the services the government is contracting for, Sauer said.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">►<a href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/2017/02/16/wage-hike-may-stymie-small-business/97860272/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;">Wage hike may stymie small business</a></span></div>
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“A vast majority of local nonprofits operate on a shoestring and try to make do with what little they have,” Sauer said. “We may be approaching a time where more and more nonprofits simply refuse to do business with the state because they can’t afford to.”</div>
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Some nonprofits may choose to raise fees for their services.</div>
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“But not all are fee-based and raising fees means that there will be more people not being able to access their services,” Sauer said. “So, more human needs go unmet, or for arts and cultural organizations, less people benefit from what they offer.”</div>
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Ultimately, the increase in minimum wage harms the nonprofit industry, Sauer said.</div>
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“From nonprofits being a business that needs to be solvent, it threatens the viability and sustainability of many unless government, philanthropy and donors are willing to invest in the nonprofit workforce,” Sauer said. “Nonprofits already have a problem with recruiting and keeping qualified staff, who easily go to work for government, schools and the private sector to better support themselves and their families.”</div>
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<em>Matthew Steecker</em><em> is Southern Tier regional business reporter for the USA TODAY Network.</em></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Matthew Steecker, @MSteecker Published 6:22 a.m. ET Feb. 16, 2017 </i></span></span></div>
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The 115th Congress convened with the majorities clearly
intent to quickly repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or “Obamacare”) within a
month and develop a replacement plan months or even years later. That two-step
strategy has now been stymied by a combination of outside advocacy efforts,
financial and coverage concerns expressed by governors and moderate Republicans
in Congress, and recent reaffirmation by the new President who campaigned on
the immediate repeal and replacement of the landmark health care law. The
Senate and House passed a budget resolution that sets the stage for repeal of
the ACA in a few weeks, but leaders in the majority are now assuring their
colleagues and the public that a replacement plan will be enacted in tandem
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Numerous nonprofits, including the Alliance for Strong
Families and Children, initiated letter-writing campaigns calling on Congress
not to repeal the ACA, in whole or in part, “without simultaneously replacing
it with a revised program that addresses many of the concerns that nonprofits
have for the people they serve.” Thirty-one states adopted Medicaid expansion
under the ACA, including 16 led by Republican Governors who reportedly
expressed their concerns to policymakers in Washington. Repeal without a
replacement would cost those states billions in previously promised funds and
disrupt state budgets for years. Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) expressed the
views of many of her colleagues when she stated that repeal “risks leaving
millions of vulnerable Americans without affordable health insurance and would
undo important consumer protections provided by current law.” Senator Bill
Cassidy (R-LA) is expected to introduce a bill soon that would partially
resolve the question of a replacement plan by giving states the flexibility to
keep Obamacare, abolish it entirely, or transition to a new system of health
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The need for a viable replacement plan for Obamacare was
underscored last week when the Congressional Budget Office warned that partial
repeal without replacement would leave tens of millions of people uninsured and
cause a spike in insurance premiums. President Trump has signaled that he
expects the replacement of the ACA to be enacted simultaneously with repeal,
but has said he will not release his legislative plan until his nominee is
confirmed to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. On his first day
in office, President Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies
to use their discretion to provide maximum flexibility to states and others to
reduce the costs, burdens, and mandates of the ACA, a step that some see as
adding pressure on Congress to adopt a replacement law. Republican Senators and
Representatives are meeting this week at a retreat in Philadelphia and the
subject of a replacement health care plan is sure to be one of the most hotly
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The federal spending plan for the rest of this fiscal year
remains unclear, but details are emerging for the Trump budget proposals for
Fiscal Year 2018 that begins on October 1. In recent speeches, Administration
officials have revealed that the President will seek to reduce federal spending
by $10.5 trillion over 10 years. One reported source of ideas for what to cut
comes from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative DC think tank, that has
offered up “106 ways to reduce the size and scope of government.” Another
source is the budget plan of the Republican Study Committee, a group of deficit
hawks in the House. The Heritage blueprint calls for eliminating the Justice
Department’s Violence Against Women Grants, the Legal Services Corporation, and
reducing funding for the Civil Rights division. It is also expected that a
Trump budget proposal will seek to privatize the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting and eliminate both the National Endowment for the Arts and the
National Endowment for the Humanities. More details on the Trump plan are
likely to be released over the next month, with his formal recommendations to
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Putting Pending Regulations on Hold:</b> Federal departments
were ordered to freeze all federal regulations currently in the pipeline to
give the new Administration time to review and revise. In a memorandum from
White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus issued late Friday, bureaucrats were
ordered to take no action on proposals that have not been finalized, to
withdraw those sent for formal publication in the Federal Register, and to
delay the implementation date for 60 days for those that have been promulgated,
but are not yet effective. The memo makes exceptions for "critical health,
safety, financial, or national security matters." Earlier in the week, 18
Republican state Attorneys General sent a letter to then Vice President-elect
Mike Pence and Congressional leadership expressing their support for the
House-passed “Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2017 or
(REINS Act), that would require the House and Senate to accept or reject within
70 legislative days rules that have an economic impact of more than $100
million. That measure has raised concerns among environmental and other
advocates that the measure could hamper the work of various federal agencies.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>New Administration, New Look at Voting Rights:</b> The Trump
Administration successfully petitioned for delaying a hearing this week in a
major voting rights case in which the Civil Rights Division of the Department
of Justice successfully proved that a restrictive Texas voter identification
law had a discriminatory effect on the civil rights of African-Americans and
Latinos. The extension was sought to allow time for incoming officials at the
Justice Department to decide the direction it wants to take in the case
regarding state discrimination against minorities.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Form 1023-EZ Challenged:</b> The reliance by the Internal
Revenue Service on its short Form 1023-EZ causes it to erroneously grant
tax-exempt status to unqualified organizations, the National Taxpayer Advocate
concluded in its Annual Report to Congress for 2016. The Form 1023-EZ, requires
applicants to merely attest that they meet the requirements for qualification
as Section 501(c)(3) organizations. The Taxpayer Advocate found that most
applications for the exemption are now submitted on Form 1023-EZ and the IRS
approves many that do not qualify under the law. The Taxpayer Advocate
recommends that the IRS require Form 1023-EZ applicants to submit their
organizing documents and summary financial information, and that the IRS make a
determination only after considering narrative statements and this additional
information. For more on the challenges and concerns about the Form 1023-EZ,
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<li><b>Taxes:</b> Taxes top the list of main issues for governors
during their annual speeches. Yet as more than half of the states are facing
budget deficits, most of the policy proposals focused on tax cuts rather than
increases. Some, including Governor Ricketts in Nebraska, propose major
overhauls in property taxes. Governor Cuomo in New York plans to work with
local governments to expand property tax relief beyond a two-percent cap on
increases. More than 650,000 lower-income Arkansans may receive income tax cuts
totaling $50 million under Governor Hutchinson’s proposal, which also promises
additional cuts in two years. In Maine, the Governor is calling on lawmakers to
shift to a flat income tax by 2020, reduce the top individual tax and corporate
rates, and eliminate the estate tax in 2018. Tennessee Governor Haslam’s
IMPROVE Act would provide several cuts to franchise and excise taxes, resulting
in $102 million in tax cuts for a state with a projected $2 billion budget
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<li><b>Spending:</b> Recognizing the realities of budget deficits, many
governors are proposing additional spending cuts. Vermont Governor Scott is
calling for tight limits on spending, while Maine Governor LePage goes further
to propose a statutory limitation on spending. In addition to proposing spending
cuts to many programs, New Mexico’s Governor is looking to tap accounts with
unspent money to “endure this current budget crisis without raising taxes.”
Missouri Governor Greitens announced spending cuts to state universities and
transportation even though his overall spending plan is not expected until
February. Conversely, Nebraska Governor Rickett’s budget seeks to increase
spending by an annual average of 1.7 percent.</li>
<li><b>Jobs/Employment:</b> Another way governors are reducing costs is
through reducing the state workforce. The Governors of Maine and Maryland are
proposing to reduce state workforces by 500 and 400 positions, respectively,
and North Dakota Governor Burgum suggests a ten percent cut in the number of
state workers to “right-size government.” On the other hand, Wisconsin Governor
Walker claims the state has more jobs than it can fill and is now shifting his
priority from job creation to workforce development.</li>
<li><b>ACA/Medicaid</b>: Governors spoke to the uncertainty about the
outcome of debates in Washington, DC, over the Affordable Care Act. Idaho
Governor Otter is taking a wait-and-see approach on health policy, recognizing
that the state impact from changes in the ACA are not yet predictable.
Colorado’s Governor Hickenlooper is taking the position that “health care is a
right not a privilege” and highlights that 94 percent of Coloradans are
covered. Medicaid expansion and providing 640,000 low-income adults with health
insurance is a top priority for Michigan Governor Snyder.</li>
<li><b>Education:</b> After years of declining support for public
education, states may be changing direction. Governors from Arizona and Idaho
are calling for increased funding for education and supporting teachers, with
Idaho devoting 63 percent of its proposed budget to public education. Indiana
Governor Holcomb seeks to double the state’s investment in pre-kindergarten,
while New York’s Cuomo proposes free public college tuition for some students.</li>
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not automatically transformed into governmental entities subject to the state’s
public records law, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled recently. The
underlying case concerned a public records demand that an individual made on
the nonprofit zoo in Seattle. When the nonprofit refused to provide all of the
requested documents, the individual sued, claiming among other things that
because the zoo used to be run by the city and the nonprofit zoo earned money
from a city contract, it should be subject to the public records law. The trial
court disagreed, and when the individual appealed, she lost again. She then
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and the National Council of Nonprofits filed an amici curiae brief in the case
last fall taking a strong position that extension of public records laws to
private entities would effectively “insert entirely new terms into existing
written agreements that private nonprofit entities have entered with
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supreme court adopted a stringent four-part test to be applied on a
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<li><b>Property Taxes:</b> A pre-filed bill in <b>Montana</b> would remove the
property tax exemption for any nonprofit that pays compensation greater than
$250,000 to any officer, trustee, or key employee. <b>Massachusetts</b> legislation
would require nonprofit hospitals to pay to its host municipality 75 percent of
property taxes they would otherwise owe if not exempt from property taxes. The
bill carves out an exception if a hospital has a standing payment in lieu of
taxes (PILOT) agreement or other financial arrangement with the local government.
A bill in <b>New Hampshire</b> would limit the property tax exemption of nonprofit
hospitals to their main campuses.</li>
<li><b>Health Insurance:</b> As a sign of changing views on health
insurance reform, the Republican Governor of Massachusetts is proposing the return
and increase of a fine on employers with 10 or more employees that do not
provide them with health insurance, raising a projected $300 million. The
individual mandate under the Affordable Care Act has been a primary complaint
of those seeking to repeal the law.</li>
<li><b>Employment Policies:</b> A bill in <b>New Hampshire</b> would increase
the state minimum wage to $9.50 per hour initially and $12 per hour beginning
in 2019, or defer to the federal minimum wage, whichever is higher. <b>North
Dakota</b> legislation seeks to increase the state minimum wage from $5.85 per hour
to $9.25 per hour and provide for adjustments by the state labor commissioner.
A bill in <b>Rhode Island</b> would raise the state minimum wage from $9.60 to $10.50
per hour, effective July 1, 2017.</li>
<li><b>Nonprofit Independence/Public Records:</b> A <b>North Dakota</b> bill
would exempt from public disclosure any donor records of nonprofits that are
subject to open records laws. Currently, only donor records of nonprofits
affiliated with higher education and the university system are exempt. The
legislation was approved unanimously by a key Senate committee on Friday. View
the testimony of the North Dakota Association of Nonprofit Organizations.</li>
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on little sleep stressed the importance of being there to discuss priorities
during the upcoming session. Giving tacit endorsement for direct lobbying by
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02025396019812118890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585184027051379018.post-87517990121849814402015-04-27T13:36:00.001-07:002015-04-27T13:36:48.000-07:00Risk Management: Directors of Nonprofits<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>Court of Appeals to Directors of Nonprofits: “Nonprofit” Does Not Mean “No Risk for You”</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WRITTEN BY BRUCE A. ERICSON, JERALD A. JACOBS, AND MARLEY DEGNER</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CREATED ON WEDNESDAY, 22 APRIL 2015 12:29</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently upheld a $2.25 million jury verdict against the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">directors of a nonprofit nursing home, holding them personally liable for breach of their duty of care. Their </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sin? Failing to remove the nursing home’s administrator and CFO “once the results of their mismanagement </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">became apparent.” While the court overturned a punitive damages verdict against five directors (the jury had </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">found nine other directors liable for compensatory damages but not punitive damages), it upheld punitive </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">damage awards of $1 million against the CFO and $750,000 against the Administrator. The decision, while </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unusual, illustrates that serving on a nonprofit board is not risk-free even if as in this case, the directors do </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not breach their duty of loyalty or engage in any self-dealing. [In re Lemington Home for the Aged, 777 F.3d </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">620 (3d Cir. 2015).]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The Lemington Home Case</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Founded in 1883, the Lemington Home for the Aged was the oldest nonprofit unaffiliated nursing home in the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">United States dedicated to the care of African Americans. For decades, the Home had been “beset with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">financial troubles” and by the early 2000s it was being cited by the Pennsylvania Department of Health for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">deficiencies at a rate almost three times greater than the average.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2004, the Home’s Administrator [Mel Lee] Causey started working part-time while continuing to draw a full </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">salary. That same year, two patients died under suspicious circumstances; an investigation by the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Department of Health found that Causey lacked the qualifications, knowledge and ability to perform her job. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An earlier independent review also recommended that Causey be replaced. Although the Board obtained a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">grant of over $175,000 to hire a new Administrator, the funds were used for other purposes and Causey </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stayed on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Home’s patient recordkeeping and billing were in a state of disarray. The Home was cited repeatedly for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">failing to keep proper clinical records. CFO Shealey stopped keeping a general ledger, instead simply </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">recording cash transactions on an Excel spreadsheet. When a consultant conducting an assessment of the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home for a major creditor requested records, Shealey responded by locking himself in his office, forcing the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">consultant to “camp outside.” Shealey also failed to collect at least $500,000 from Medicare because he </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stopped sending invoices.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In January 2005, the Board voted to close the Home, but concealed that fact for three months before filing for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">bankruptcy. In those three months, the Home stopped accepting new patients, making it less attractive to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">potential buyers. While in bankruptcy, the Board failed to disclose in its monthly operating reports that the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home had received a $1.4 million payment, which could also have increased its chances of finding a buyer. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The court held that these facts supported the jury’s verdict that the defendants had “deepened” the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">corporation’s insolvency, which the court said was actionable under Pennsylvania law. [777 F.3d at 630.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The court of appeals upheld the jury’s compensatory damages verdict against the directors despite the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Home’s bylaw provision protecting the directors from claims for simple negligence and requiring proof of selfdealing, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">willful misconduct or recklessness. [Lemington, No. 10-800, 2013 WL 2158543, at *6 (W.D. Penn. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May 17, 2013).] Both the court of appeals and the district court held that the evidence supported a finding that </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the directors breached their duty of care by recklessly (1) continuing to employ the Administrator despite </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">actual knowledge of mismanagement and despite knowing that she was working only part-time in violation of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">state law; and (2) continuing to employ the CFO despite actual knowledge of mismanagement, including his </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">failure to maintain financial records. [777 F.3d at 628-30; 2013 WL 2158543, at *7; In re Lemington Home for </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Aged, 659 F. 3d 282, 286-87 (3d Cir. 2011).] Despite these holdings, the court of appeals reversed the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">award of punitive damages against the five directors, holding that there was insufficient evidence that they </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">possessed the requisite state of mind and no evidence of self-dealing. [777 F.3d at 634-35.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Result in Lemington Home: Unusual But Not Unique</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lemington Home is not the only case in which a court has held that directors of a nonprofit breached their </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fiduciary duties. Other cases—some new and some old—show how directors of nonprofits sometimes find </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">themselves in the crosshairs, especially after an institution fails.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Perhaps the best-known case is Stern v. Lucy Webb Hayes Nat’l Training School for Deaconesses & </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Missionaries, 381 F. Supp. 1003 (D.D.C. 1974), where the district court held that the directors breached </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">their fiduciary duties of care and loyalty by failing to supervise the nonprofit’s finances and by approving </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">transactions that involved self-dealing. The court found that the board’s finance and investment </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">committees had not met for over a decade, and the directors had left management of the nonprofit to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">two officers who worked largely without supervision. Nevertheless, the court declined to award money </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">damages against the directors, opting instead to impose certain reforms on the board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Starting in 2007, seven years of litigation (and millions of dollars in legal fees) ensued between two </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nonprofits interested in the creation of a memorial to Armenians who died during the First World War </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and two of their directors; the nonprofits lost their claims against the directors and ended up having to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">indemnify them. The district court denied summary judgment on the issue of whether the directors had </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">breached their fiduciary duties but then concluded after a bench trial that the directors’ decisions and the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">process by which they made them were reasonable and, even if the directors had breached their duty, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the corporation could not show that it suffered injury as a result. Armenian Genocide Museum and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Memorial, Inc. v. The Cafesjian Family Foundation, Inc., 691 F. Supp. 2d 132 (D.D.C. 2010); Armenian </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Assembly of America, Inc., et al., v. Cafesjian, 772 F. Supp. 2d 20 (D.D.C. 2011), aff’d, 758 F.3d 265, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">275 (D.C. Cir. 2014).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2010, the National Credit Union Administration sued the unpaid volunteer directors of Western </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Corporate Federal Credit Union seeking $6.8 billion in damages on account of the directors’ alleged </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">failure to supervise the credit union’s investment decisions. The credit union had invested heavily in </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">diversified portfolios of securitized mortgage-backed securities; when the credit crisis hit, the NCUA took </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">over the credit union (much the way the FDIC takes over failed banks) and sued the former directors </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and officers. The district court granted the directors’ motion to dismiss, holding that the directors were </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">protected by the business judgment rule. Nat’l Credit Union Admin, v. Siravo, et al., No. 10-1597, 2011 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WL 8332969, *3 (C.D. Cal. July 7, 2011). (Two of the authors of this feature represented all directors </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and one officer in this litigation.) The officers did not fare as well; the court held that the business </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">judgment rule did not protect them, and at least some officers ended up paying some money to the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NCUA and suffering other sanctions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These cases are unusual, which goes a long ways toward explaining the unusual rulings. Generally, absent </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fraud, bad faith, a conflict of interest, a wholesale abdication of responsibility, or decisions that are clearly </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">unreasonable based on facts known at the time, the business judgment rule will protect directors of nonprofits </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">from personal liability for a breach of the duty of care. But vindication can take years of litigation and lots of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>What Are the Lessons of Lemington Home?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can be sued. To be sure, directors of for-profit corporations are sued far more often than directors </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of nonprofits, but directors of nonprofits can be sued, nonetheless. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are sued, the litigation can go on for years and be very expensive—even if ultimately you are </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">vindicated. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because litigation—even unmeritorious litigation—can be expensive, directors should not serve without </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the protection of adequate directors’ and officers’ insurance (D&O insurance).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Directors of nonprofits, despite usually being volunteers, can face personal liability for breach of their </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fiduciary duties and will be held to much the same standard of care as directors of for-profit </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">corporations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some states have enacted statutes dealing specifically with nonprofit directors’ duty of care. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pennsylvania has such a statute: 15 Pa. Cons. Stat. Ann. § 5712 (2011). [See Lemington, 659 F.3d at </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">290. Likewise, California has such a statute: Cal. Corp. Code § 7231.] But it is far from clear that these </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">statutes offer directors of nonprofits any more protection than they offer directors of for-profit </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">corporations; the differences are subtle, at best.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The business judgment rule offers directors some protection, but it is not an all-purpose shield against claims </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">based on dereliction of duty, let alone disloyalty or self-dealing. To gain the protection of the business </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">judgment rule, a director must be assiduous and informed before making decisions. Specifically: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The board must supervise: it must ensure that the organization’s management are qualified to perform </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">their duties and are actually performing those duties. The failure of the directors in Lemington Home to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">do this led to their being jointly and severally liable for $2.25 million in damages [777 F.3d at 626, 628.] </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The board must seek and follow independent expert advice where appropriate: the directors in </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lemington Home failed to follow the recommendations of independent advisors to replace the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Administrator, even after being awarded funds to do so. They also ignored the advice of their bankruptcy </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">counsel. [Lemington, 2013 WL 2158543, at *7.]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Special care must be taken if the nonprofit veers toward insolvency:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before filing for bankruptcy, consider conducting a viability study. In vacating the award of summary </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">judgment for defendants, the Third Circuit in Lemington Home noted that the Board declined to pursue a </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">viability study before filing for bankruptcy and suggested that this called into question the adequacy of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">their pre-bankruptcy investigation. Lemington, 659 F.3d at 286, 292. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beware the “deepening insolvency” theory. Although not recognized in every jurisdiction, the theory </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">holds directors and officers accountable to creditors if their post-insolvency management increases the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">losses that creditors suffer.</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This article was originally published as a “Client Alert” on PillsburyLaw.com on March 27, 2015. It is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reproduced with permission.</span></b></i>Andrew Mariettahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16582299721394131373noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-585184027051379018.post-72345219400366141202015-04-20T12:21:00.001-07:002015-04-20T12:21:16.664-07:00New "Foundation Landscapes: Education" Website Provides a One-stop Resource for Education Philanthropy<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; widows: 1;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The eight-county Capital Region has a wealth of world-class cultural and creative assets. However, a 2014 research study conducted by the Regional Alliance for a Creative Economy (RACE) concluded that more support is needed to leverage our region's creative talent, performing arts venues and products to drive our regional economy though travel and tourism, workforce development, and more. Join the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce and RACE for a galvanizing discussion with Dan Pallotta, one of today's most prominent advocates for nonprofit organizations. Dan will discuss how our society can change our thinking on nonprofit organizations to encourage true innovation and lasting impact.<br /><br /> <strong>Location: </strong>Saratoga Springs City Center, 522 Broadway, Saratoga NY.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nonprofits are notorious for having tight budgets and limited resources. If this sounds like your organization or if you're looking for ways to help your nonprofit run more effectively, you'll want to join Jay in this session to discover:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">"Jay's session was awesome. I spent the next hour checking off a few of Jay's suggestions with our own website, Facebook page and email service. We have some work to do! I hope the rest of the attendees </span></em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">had as many take-aways as I did."</span></em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<em><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">-Sue Joe, Affiliate Relations Director, National Down Syndrome Congress</span></b></em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This webinar will help your board and staff operationalize your new committee structure post Nonprofit Revitalization Act. Gone are standing and ad-hoc committees; enter committees of the board and committees of the corporation. Are the latter accountable to the Board or accountable to the Executive Director? Do you need minutes? Who should chair them? How do we bring on non-board members and what is their role? For committees of the Board, what authority do they really have and how to we ensure they are accountable to the board. Join this discussion and bring your questions and suggestions.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You can also check out the<strong> "Truth About Nonprofits" Info Cards.</strong> These info cards were delivered to our legislators in Albany in early March. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Schedule a time with your local policymakers to start t the conversation as to why Nonprofits are valuable to the state and the region. Point out that we are a large, diverse, and influential community of business that should partake in decisions impacting the state. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Educate community members as to what nonprofits are, and diversity of our community.<br /></span><strong><span style="color: #db4854; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Business Leaders </span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nonprofits can use the data to inform their own decisions, and see where future partnerships or opportunities lie. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Want to get involved or interested in creating your own economic impact data infographic? <a href="mailto:avanderwarker@nycon.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Email us Today.</a> </span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are pleased to report that more data is becoming readily available and that <strong>NYCON has created a series of Infographics</strong> that you can use to educate your own constituents, legislators, donors and others, on just how critical nonprofits are to making New York state a better place to to live and work!<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #db4854; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Grab our Great Nonprofit Infographics...<br />Share, Tweet, Like and Send!</span></b><span style="color: #db4854; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You can also check out the<strong> "Truth About Nonprofits" Info Cards.</strong> These info cards were delivered to our legislators in Albany in early March. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We encourage members to post the infographics and cards on their websites, social media, and share in as many ways as possible. If you need help getting started, find strategies below on who to talk to and how to use the data.</span></b><span style="color: #db4854; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #db4854; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Funders </span></strong><b><span style="color: #db4854; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br /></span></b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Assist funders in better understanding where the strengths and weakness lie across the state and region. Let them know how they can help strengthen the nonprofit community in your area.<br /> </span><span style="color: #db4854; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Schedule a time with your local policymakers to start t the conversation as to why Nonprofits are valuable to the state and the region. Point out that we are a large, diverse, and influential community of business that should partake in decisions impacting the state. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Educate community members as to what nonprofits are, and diversity of our community.<br /></span><strong><span style="color: #db4854; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Business Leaders </span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nonprofits can use the data to inform their own decisions, and see where future partnerships or opportunities lie. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;">Want to get involved or interested in creating your own economic impact data infographic? <a href="mailto:avanderwarker@nycon.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Email us Today.</a> </span></strong><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<a href="" name="14c8ccc5abdd6483_LETTER.BLOCK52" style="color: #222222;"></a><strong><span style="color: #db4854; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nonprofits Mean Business!</span></strong><span style="color: #db4854; font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are pleased to report that more data is becoming readily available and that <strong>NYCON has created a series of Infographics</strong> that you can use to educate your own constituents, legislators, donors and others, on just how critical nonprofits are to making New York state a better place to to live and work!<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You can also check out the<strong> "Truth About Nonprofits" Info Cards.</strong> These info cards were delivered to our legislators in Albany in early March. <u></u><u></u></span></div>
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