Nonprofit Organizations and Counterterrorism Measures

Feb 8, 2016

Top 400 Taxpayers See Tax Rates Rise, But There’s More to the Story

As Americans were gathering party supplies to greet the New Year, the Internal Revenue Service released their annual report of cumulative tax data reported on the 400 tax r...

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Feb 4, 2016

Chlorine Bleach Plants Needlessly Endanger 63 Million Americans

Chlorine bleach plants across the U.S. put millions of Americans in danger of a chlorine gas release, a substance so toxic it has been used as a chemical weapon. Greenpeace’s new repo...

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Jan 25, 2016

U.S. Industrial Facilities Reported Fewer Toxic Releases in 2014

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) data for 2014 is now available. The good news: total toxic releases by reporting facilities decreased by nearly six percent from 2013 levels. Howe...

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Jan 22, 2016

Methane Causes Climate Change. Here's How the President Plans to Cut Emissions by 40-45 Percent.

UPDATE (Jan. 22, 2016): Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its proposed rule to reduce methane emissions...

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Russia May Shutter Foreign Nonprofits

Nov 17, 2005 by Guest Blogger

Russian and foreign nongovernmental organizations and foundations are scrambling to fight a draft law that they say could shutter the Moscow offices of such prominent groups as Human Rights Watch, the Carnegie Moscow Center and the Ford Foundation and bring grass-roots activism in Russia under much closer government control. For the whole scoop

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Revised Treasury Guidelines for Charities Out Next Wed.

Nov 16, 2005 by Guest Blogger

FYI- Keep your eye out for new developments on the anti-terror financing front. The Treasury Department has said that revised "Anti-Terrorist Financing Guidelines: Voluntary Best Practices for U.S.-based Charities" will be posted on the Treasury Department website by next Wednesday, 11/23.

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New CFC Rule Does Not Mandate List Checking or Compliance with Treasury Guidelines

On November 7, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) withdrew a regulation that required all nonprofits participating in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), the federal government's workplace charitable giving program, to screen employees and donation recipients for possible terrorist ties. The new final rule, which applies to 2006 CFC applicants, requires participating charities instead to certify that they are in compliance with existing anti-terrorist financing laws.

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Final Rule on Anti-Terrorist Certification for Charities Is Just First Step

Washington, DC (November 11, 2005)--The Office of Personnel Management withdrew a regulation this week that required nonprofits participating in the Combined Federal Campaign--the federal government's workplace charitable giving program--to screen employees and donation recipients for possible terrorist ties. The new final rule, which applies to 2006 CFC applicants, instead requires participating charities to certify that they are in compliance with existing anti-terrorist financing laws.

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CFC Issues Final Rule on Anti-Terrorism Certification

Nov 8, 2005 by Kay Guinane

The Combined Federal Campaign has released its final rule for anti-terrorist certifications for charities applying to participate in the program in the upcoming year. The new rule requires a general certification of compliance with anti-terrorism financing laws, but does not make checking employees’ names against government watch lists mandatory. The nonprofit sector has scored an important victory in this case. Details will follow soon, after we have completed a thorough review of the final rule. The final rule is online here

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OMB Watch Report on Charity and the War on Terror

Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, federal measures intended to cut off terrorism funding have imposed undue burdens on the nonprofit sector.

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Safeguarding Charity in the War on Terror

Safeguarding Charity Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, federal measures intended to cut off terrorism funding have imposed undue burdens on the nonprofit sector. This report addresses unbalanced anti-terrorist financing regulations and guidelines and suggests a clear, sensible system, under which nonprofit organizations and foundations can pursue legitimate charitable activities.

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Muslim Charities Trying To Bring Back Donors, But Difficult

Sep 22, 2005 by Guest Blogger

Last January the board of Dallas charity KinderUSA made an unusual request to its 6,800 donors: Please don't send gifts. The Islamic charity, which delivers food and aid to children in war zones, had just received a federal grand jury subpoena asking its officials to turn over all meeting minutes, tax returns, and other documents. It feared that the government could freeze its assets or seize its list of donors at any moment.

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ACLU Finds MI Group Designated as Terrorists

Aug 29, 2005 by Guest Blogger

style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">The American Civil Liberties Union today released an FBI document that designates a Michigan-based peace group and an affirmative action advocacy group as potentially "involved in terrorist activities." The file was obtained through an ongoing nationwide ACLU effort seeking information on the FBI's use of Joint Terrorism Task Forces to engage in political surveillance. style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"> style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">"This

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Report Details Law Enforcement of Libraries

Aug 29, 2005 by Guest Blogger

The American Library Association (ALA) today released complete findings from its survey measuring law enforcement activity in America's libraries. Preliminary findings, released in June, revealed that at least 137 legally executed requests by federal and state/local law enforcement in both academic and public libraries have taken place since October, 2001 - 63 legally executed requests for records in public libraries and 74 such requests in academic libraries. The full report of survey findings includes contextual data including responses

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