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Nonprofits in the Age of Obama

The Small Business Tax Credit and Nonprofits

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Rick Cohen

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?

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Text and Subtext: The State of the Union

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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.

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The State of the Fields

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The Editors

As we cover the state of the nation in the Nonprofits in the Age of Obama series, we have identified and observed the major variables that affect nonprofit viability and effectiveness. And one such factor is the field of practice in which a nonprofit works.

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Stories from the Stimulus—Part 1

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Ruth McCambridge and Chris Finney

These two stories are the first of a series about how stimulus funds have affected nonprofits of different types. We have drawn these stories from the evolving case studies of the nonprofit groups we are following in the Nonprofit Quarterly’s Nonprofits in the Age of Obama series.

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Background on Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth

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The Editors

The White House invited nonprofit “leaders” to the Jobs and Economic Growth Forum—the jobs summit. So who counted as nonprofit leaders for this program?

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