Jasmine Newman | February 5, 2021
Nonprofits care about and frequently weigh in on issues affecting education, including resources needed to support stude...
Heather Burke | October 17, 2018
Calling for a Veto? Can Nonprofits Call for Impeachment? Can Private Foundations Fund Nonprofits that Lobby? Can We Comment on Candidate’s Statements? Can You Give a Candidate Your Email List? Does taking a stand on executive actions qualify as lobbying under federal tax law?…
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Jasmine Newman | December 17, 2020
Nonprofits have a wide variety of advocacy tools at their disposal to create change in their communities, including both...
ldinapoli | June 14, 2018
501(c)(3) public charities, including grantmaking public charities like community foundations and women’s foundations, can lobby within the generous limits allowed by federal law. How much lobbying the foundation can do depends upon which of the two standards the foundation uses to measure its lobbying – the “501(h) expenditure” test…
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Jasmine Newman | February 24, 2021
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/rulesofthegame/ROTG-Lobbying-Part4.mp3 Our attorneys for this episode: Leslie Barnes Tim Mooney Shyaam Subramanian Shownotes On this episode, our fourth in our on-going lobbying series, we’ll focus…
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ldinapoli | February 12, 2021
Redistricting begins in 2021, once the 2020 Census results are delivered to the states.1 Redistricting is how the U.S. d...
Jasmine Newman | June 22, 2021
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/rulesofthegame/ROTG28-advocacy-grants.mp3 On this episode of Rules of the Game, we’re going to talk about money. Because at this point you already know that 501(c)(3) public charities…
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Jasmine Newman | May 19, 2021
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/rulesofthegame/ROTG25-FLDA.mp3 On this episode, we have issued ourselves a challenge . . . to make a relatively dry topic interesting for our listeners . . . What is that topic, you ask? The Federal Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA)! We’ll talk about what it is,…
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Heather Burke | July 13, 2018
Can a 501(c)(3) organization lose its tax status over a careless tweet? What happens when a politician “likes” your organization’s Facebook page? With new online tools popping up all the time, questions like these are becoming more and more frequent. Let us help you navigate the web of rules and…
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Ryann Alonso | December 2, 2020
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/rulesofthegame/ROTG-advancing-policy.mp3 Now that elections are “mostly” behind us, we wanted to turn our attention to lobbying for policy changes no matter where you are or what project you work on. Our attorneys for this episode: Leslie Barnes Jen Powis Shyaam…
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