More Policy Summaries

by Kay Guinane, 4/19/2006

Nonprofit Speech Rights, Building Nonprofit Advocacy Capacity, Protecting Nonprofit Rights
Policy Summaries
  • Anti-Advocacy Provisions in Housing Bill In the fall of 2005, the House passed a bill that that would disqualify nonprofits from receiving money from a new affordable housing fund if they have engaged in voter registration and other nonpartisan voter participation activities or lobbying for certain groups within 12 months of applying for the money.

     

  • A Challenge to Restrictions on Legal Services Programs On Dec. 20, 2004, a U.S. District Court struck down application of the 1996 rule imposing restrictions on Legal Services Corporation (LSC) funds on private funding of legal aid groups.

     

  • Combined Federal Campaign and Terrorist List Checking In 2005 the Office of Personnel Management's Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), the federal government's workplace charitable giving program, finalized a rule change that moves away from its previous requirement that all participating charities check their employees names against government watch lists. The move follows a lawsuit filed by nonprofits.

     

  • IRS Audit of NAACP Prior to the November 2004 election, the IRS initiated an audit of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), based on criticism of President Bush's policies. The NAACP claims the audit is politically motivated.

     

  • The History of Church Electioneering For the past few years Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) has pushed legislation that would allow houses of worship to intervene directly in partisan political campaigns by endorsing and opposing candidates for public office. See the history behind current law and more details on Jones' proposal.
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