Nonprofit Speech Rights

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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Former IRS'er Contemplates Audit of NAACP

Nov 18, 2004 by Guest Blogger

A former IRS worker wonders about the political motivations and consequences of the Internal Revenue Service investigation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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Votelaw.com highlights OMB Watch article

Nov 16, 2004 by Guest Blogger

Ed Still's informative election reform website posted an OMB Watch article about how nonprofits came out in force this election season.

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New York Times Roundtable on Accountability

Nov 16, 2004 by Guest Blogger

Today, the New York Times had an interesting roundtable discussion about financial problems in the nonprofit sector and whether there is a need for further government regulation. The overall sense of the article seems to be that nonprofits, while most of them abide by the law, need to be have further regulation by the government if they are to redeem themselves in the eyes of the public. You can go to the New York Times site for the article or click below.

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How States are Spending HAVA money

Nov 16, 2004 by Guest Blogger

This year, for the first time in our nation's history, states received federal dollars to help pay for federally-mandated election reforms. NASS asked the states how they are spending that money, and what they will do if they don't receive all of the money Congress authorized when it passed The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA).

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IRS Revises Application for Tax-Exempt Status for Charities, 501(c)(3) Groups

The IRS has released an updated version of the application for tax-exempt status for charitable, education, religious and scientific organizations. The new Form 1023 and instructions are available on the Web, and the IRS will require their use after April, 2005. Page ten of the instructions describes the prohibition on partisan electioneering and the allowable legislative lobbying limits. A copy of Form 5768, the notice that a group will measure its lobbying by expenditures only, is included in the package.

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Nonprofits Came Out in Force This Election Season

Nonprofits across the spectrum came out this election season to help voters have a voice. As a result, the United States had a voter turnout of almost 60 percent, the highest since 1968. This election proved nonprofits can "help America vote."

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OMB Watch Press Statement on Lawsuit Against the Combined Federal Campaign

Statement of Kay Guinane, Counsel and Manager of OMB Watch Nonprofit Advocacy Project, Nov. 10, 2004 OMB Watch has been promoting government accountability and civic participation for over 20 years. We believe nonprofits, like groups that receive donations from federal employees through the Combined Federal Campaign, have a vital place in communities and play a powerful role in reinforcing our democratic principles. We believe CFC's list checking policy is unreasonable and will not make America safer.

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TAKE ACTION: Stop the punitive audit of the NAACP

Nov 12, 2004 by Guest Blogger

IRS 'Examination' of NAACP Exempt Status Based on Criticism of Bush Policies

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OMB Watch's Thousand Cuts II Detailed in Chronicle

Nov 10, 2004 by Guest Blogger

OMB Watch's latest report, Death by a Thousand Cuts II, was the subject of an article today in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. For the full article, click here. To read Death by a Thousand Cuts II, click here.

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ACLU and Diverse Coalition of National Nonprofits Challenge Misguided Government Watch List Policy

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2004 -- The American Civil Liberties Union today joined forces with 12 national nonprofit organizations in challenging the Office of Personnel Management's Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) requirement that all participating charities check their employees and expenditures against several government watch lists for "terrorist activities."

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