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Foreign Funding Laws & NGOs: What Global Regulatory Changes Mean for U.S. Charities – Charity Lawyer Blog

Governments around the world have increasingly regulated how nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) receive and use foreign funding. While these laws are…

We See What We Are: The Strength in Our Communities

A version of this piece first appeared under the title “Minneapolis, San Diego and the morals that make community” in…

Donation Scams: Identifying Fake Charity Appeals

Social media has become a central channel for charitable fundraising, particularly during disasters, emergencies, and fast-moving public events. It has…

Why Collaborative Funds Give Me Hope Right Now

It’s hard to talk with nonprofit leaders today without hearing some version of the same story: Policies are shifting, funding…

Converting Programs and For-Profits into Section 501(c)(3)

Recent nonprofit news highlights a trend that many lawyers are seeing more frequently in practice. Programs lose government funding. Mission-driven…

McKinsey Report Misses Mark on Foundation Leadership

Advice on leadership is everywhere you turn but, unfortunately, a decent amount of it is not so helpful. Enter into…

IRS Criminal Investigation: What Nonprofits Must Know

For many years, nonprofit leaders have thought about the IRS as a civil regulator. The worst-case scenario was an audit,…

It’s Time for a Sector-Wide Reality Check

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP)’s newly released report, “A Sector in Crisis: How U.S. Nonprofits and Foundations Are Responding…

Four ‘Principles of Interpretation’ for Philanthropic and Nonprofit Leaders Navigating Crises

CEP just released a powerful and provocative survey of nonprofit and foundation leaders about the state of civil society during…

A Constitutional and Moral Reckoning: The Opportunity for a Third Founding — And Philanthropy’s Role

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [sic] are created equal, that they are endowed by their…