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Eliminating the charitable deduction: It’s the end of the world as we know...
As governments at all levels scramble for resources, the idea of eliminating the charitable deduction from the income tax code has begun to attract support. Many people who work in nonprofits say this...
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On Wisconsin! Part II*
Boy, this guy is the gift that just keeps on giving: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, not content to interfere with the provision of public services by destroying public-sector unions, has now decided...
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The Joyce Foundation, the Independent Sector and the facts
Ellen Alberding’s interview with the Chicago Tribune in advance of the Independent Sector‘s meeting in Chicago earlier this week pressed nearly every one of the Nonprofiteer’s buttons. Ms. Alberding,...
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By any other name . . .
The Nonprofiteer has never had much time for people who want to change the name of the sector to something non-”non”—something more positive, like “Civil Society Organization,” or less meaningful, like...
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Everybody who’s not here please raise your hand
Will anyone reading this blog who was invited to this event, or knows anyone who was, please comment and tell the rest of us what it was supposed to accomplish and what actually happened? Many thanks...
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At war with oneself over the charitable deduction
From an article in the New York Times whose date the Nonprofiteer neglected to notice: “It’s admirable when people back their charitable impulses up with donations,” said Scott Klinger, tax policy...
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The Nonprofiteer has been wondering what to write about . . .
but she’d really have preferred not to have this as an inspiration. There is no excuse for the decision of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, until now a respected source of information and funding in the...
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Give the people at Komen a piece of your mind . . .
as they seem to have lost their own. Komen’s decision to de-fund Planned Parenthood at the behest of an anti-choice Board member reminds us how ready the right wing is to sacrifice women’s health for...
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More on the Buffett challenge
When Warren Buffett challenged Mitch McConnell to help him pay down the deficit, McConnell paid him no never-mind—but a teenage girl in Northbrook, IL heard and responded, sending $300 to the Feds and...
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What Price Democracy?
There’s an old joke about a man who asks a woman to sleep with him for $1 million. She agrees, whereupon he asks her to sleep with him for $1. “What kind of a girl do you think I am?” asks the woman...
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