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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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Representation on the Nonprofit Panel Questioned by Some

Mar 21, 2005 by Guest Blogger

"If this is the nonprofit sector's version of boldness, I'd hate to see when they're being cautious," said Trent Stamp, executive director of Charity Navigator, a charity watchdog group in Mahwah, N.J. A great Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription required) article about the Recommendations the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector recently submitted to the Senate Finance Committee.

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The Costs of Congressional Scrutiny

Mar 17, 2005 by Guest Blogger

There is an article in the Miami Herald about how nonprofits have stopped raising money for the tsunami reconstruction and have even begun returning money - not because there isn't reconstruction to be done - but because of all the scrutiny surrounding nonprofit accountability. Check out the article.

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Senate Finance Cmte Plans Hearing on Nonprof Accountability

Mar 16, 2005 by Guest Blogger

On the heels of the release of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector's Interim Report, the Senate Finance Committee plans to hold a hearing on April 5 on the Panel's initial recommendations. An agenda and witness list for the hearing has not been released. Senate Finance Committee staff also has indicated that a bill might be introduced soon after the hearing.

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Mar 16, 2005 by Guest Blogger

Or should I say sweeping it from the budget? How about stuffing it under the bed like a kid that doesn't want to clean his room? Anyway, check out this article from the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

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Nonprofits Can't Sit Out Tax Debate

Mar 15, 2005 by Guest Blogger

Interesting article about nonprofits and how they need to pay attention to the current debate waging in Congress over tax reform.

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Administration Says Spending for Propaganda Legal

Mar 15, 2005 by Kay Guinane

The Bush administation reportedly has rejected a finding by the General Accountability Office that is illegally used federal funds to promote the Medicare drug benefit, without identifying the information as coming from the government. See the full story in the March 15 edition of the Washington Post here.

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United Way Begins to Monitor Beneficiaries

Mar 11, 2005 by Guest Blogger

With all the talk about the need for legislation to improve nonprofit accountability, organizations are begininning to set benchmarks for their grantees. The United Way of Greater Plymouth County is three years into a new process it describes as a "community impact." Modeled after programs started by several other United Way chapters around the country, the local chapter, based in Brockton, is now holding its beneficiaries more accountable for the money it awards them. For the full scoop...

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A New Home for Boston's Nonprofits

Mar 10, 2005 by Guest Blogger

This is interesting... The NonProfit Center is the first mission-based, multi-tenant center in Massachusetts created exclusively to house progressive social change organizations. Located at Lincoln Plaza, 89 South Street, the center is within walking distance of the Massachusetts State House, Boston City Hall and Boston’s financial district. Visit their website!

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Bush Drops Non-Itemizer from Budget

Mar 10, 2005 by Guest Blogger

In President Bush's March 1 speech, he promoted three core ideas associated with the Faith-Based Initiative: advocating the right of faith-based charities to discriminate in religious hiring; tax incentives for faith-based charities; and increasing the faith-based initiative at the local level. However, he did not talk about how he dropped non-itemizers, which used to be the cornerstone of his "compassionate conservative" agenda, from the 2005 budget.

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Charities Opening Doors to Outside Inspectors

Mar 10, 2005 by Kay Guinane

Some major international charities are opening their doors for the first time to outside inspectors, allowing them to certify that donations are spent as advertised. The charities, Kansas City-based Children International among them, say they hope that thorough inspections and a new industry seal of approval will assuage public fears of donations being misused. The nonprofits are also trying to keep ahead of a movement in Congress to impose regulations on the fast-growing but largely unsupervised world of nongovernmental organizations. Click here for the scoop...

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