Well ahead of Inauguration Day, the incoming Administration announced its strategy: a “shock and awe” blitz.
Many of us remember “Shock and Awe 1.0” from January 2017: The “bizarre, rapid-fire presidential policy making” when “every day there’s a new,
The Internal Revenue Service values and acknowledges the historical role of the charitable sector in disaster relief.
Providing “… aid to relieve human suffering caused by a natural or civil disaster or an emergency hardship is charity in its most basic form.” See Publication 3833 (Rev. 12-2014), Disaster Relief: Providing Assistance Through Charitable
“Simply put, we believe that U.S. charitable funds should be used to benefit the public” and not tied up in “unproductive repositories.”
That’s the mission statement of a major new initiative called Philanthropy Project formed in 2024 to “mobilize nonprofit influence on the critical and beneficial role regulation and public accountability have for American
Each year, by January 10th, the California governor must release a proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year beginning in the summer.
That constitutionally mandated first step starts up a carefully regimented, six-month-long, dance between the state’s executive and legislative branches. By the end of June, there must be a balanced budget enacted and signed
Against a background of uncertainty and – perhaps – turmoil, the nation’s charitable nonprofits are now at the start of the 2025 fundraising season.
A few years ago in 2022, just ahead of the critical holiday-season rush to secure as many donations as possible by New Year’s Eve, we distilled widely accepted key advice for
As the clock strikes midnight this New Year’s Eve, with the final 2024 charitable contributions trickling in, there is one final task for the exhausted but grateful boards and staff of the nation’s 501(c)(3) organizations.
It’s the timely delivery of a “contemporaneous written acknowledgment,” commonly referred to as a Donee Acknowledgment Letter.
The good news:
In the final week of June 2024, the Supreme Court released the last batch of major rulings for the term.
One of these cases involved the fate of a nerdy 40-year-old doctrine in administrative law known as “Chevron Deference.” Few Supreme Court observers expected this precedent to survive intact. The only suspense was whether the
“Ten years ago, in early summer 2014,” the For Purpose Law Group “formally leaped into the blogosphere.”
It was still a relatively new phenomenon; indeed, it could not have happened at all without the magic of the rapidly evolving internet, and the proliferation of self-publishing and other exciting technology. Blog historians peg 1994
Over the last two decades, the attorneys general of the individual states have aggressively reasserted their longstanding – but mostly dormant – power to regulate charities and charitable trusts within their borders.
Leading the pack is the Office of the California Attorney General with jurisdiction over the largest charitable sector in the nation. As of
“Nine years ago, the idea that charities could fall victim to fraud was met with disbelief. The term ‘fraud’ had to be used cautiously, and the notion that charities were targeted seemed far-fetched.”
At last week’s 9th annual Charity Fraud Awareness Week 2024 kickoff conference in London, participants were reminded of the dangerous level of
