Fabulous new tool from the Foundation Center for philanthropists who want to effectively fund nonprofit advocacy—and how one big California Foundation does it: Advocacy Funder Collaboratives What Does It Take to Support Leadership and Effectiveness in...
Trouble Back East
Nonprofits face headwinds in the Northeast—NYC continues to shortchange its nonprofit contractors, CT wants to force the disclosure of donor names, and a MD city wants to pull funding from local nonprofits that happen to also get county funding: Serious Contracting Problems Place Nonprofits at Risk in New York Controversial donor disclosure bill to get a vote in the House Ocean City’s ‘Double-Donation’ Policy With Nonprofits...
Nonprofits May be Able to Politick
Pres Trump will order the IRS to stop investigating churches and nonprofits that engage in partisan politics—the nonprofit establishment will surely go ballistic, but I am more sanguine about this because it will give nonprofit advocates an additional tool they need to advance their causes:...