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Accelerated Deductions for Haiti Giving

Web Articles
Rick Cohen

Call this the charitable deduction acceleration legislation. In late January President Obama signed into law legislation designed to encourage more giving to the relief effort in Haiti. This isn't unprecedented. After the Southeast Asian tsunami in 2004 similar legislation was passed. Increasing charitable aid to Haiti is a noble goal, but is an accelerated charitable deduction for donations to earthquake relief efforts good public policy?

President Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion budget today including $100 billion earmarked for job creation as the nation struggles with the worst recession in decades. Among the president's planned programs is the small business tax credit proposed in his State of the Union address last Wednesday. So what's in the proposal for nonprofits?

Text and Subtext: The State of the Union

Age of Obama
The Editors

Presidential State of the Union addresses, even when delivered by a speaker as skilled as Barack Obama, tend to be compilations of big statements with relatively few specifics. The specifics of a President's policy initiatives are in his (or her) proposed federal budget, not in a speech, even one as highly touted as the State of the Union. Without overreading one 7,335-word speech, we take note of the following key points.

The State We're In: How Bad is it Out There?

The State We're In
Rick Cohen and Ruth McCambridge

The daily news reports of state government budget impasses, deficits, and cuts hit nonprofits right where it hurts: that is, in their ability to deliver on the programs and services relied on by their constituents and communities across the nation.

Your Promise is Your Brand: How to Work It

From the Archives
Carlo M. Cuesta and Padraic Lillis

An effective organizational promise is identified through an honest assessment of ability, opportunity, and desire. Tapping the collective aspirations of board, staff, and community partners can inspire a bond, motivating the whole to expand their thinking beyond the routine of their individual roles and recognize the exciting places their shared effort can take them.

Making Our Communications Strategic

From the Archives
Karen Jeffreys

To move an issue from being a concern of the already convinced to being a concern of a broader community, we need to cultivate that broader community.

In the United States, there is a long-standing conceptual and practical interconnection between the news media and nonprofits. Both are considered essential to a healthy democracy and an informed citizenry. But journalism as we have known it is now widely considered at risk because its business model is failing. Some would like to see journalism be more fully “owned” by the nonprofit sector, for instance. Mark Jurkowitz, associate director of Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, talks with the Nonprofit Quarterly about where the media industry stands and where it is likely to go.