Public Policy/Advocacy

Public Policy/Advocacy

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Will 2014 Be the Year Tax Reform Arrives?

Tax reform has been a hot topic in Congress over the past year, and seemingly everything is on the table, including nonprofits' activities. Even with the recent release of a formal legislative proposal, real progress on a bill seems unlikely in...

April 17, 2014
Tax Extenders in Limbo

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing last week to discuss the perennial issue of the tax extenders, the temporary tax provisions that expire year after year and are usually renewed. However, dozens of provisions that expired at the...

April 17, 2014
Sector News
Wyden to Nonprofits: “You are on the right side of history”

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), speaking April 1 at the annual member meeting of the National Council of Nonprofits, made his clearest statement of support for charitable giving tax incentives and for the work of charitable...

April 02, 2014
Member News
Strength in Numbers: Texas Foundations Rally Around Education

Students forced to share textbooks. Bus service canceled. Teachers taking on janitorial duties. After the Texas legislature cut the state’s education budget by $5.4 billion in 2011, almost every aspect of the public school system took a hit. The...

March 04, 2014

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