Two Republican leaders of the Ways and Means Committee have recently become concerned about nonprofit political campaign intervention activities and, on August 14, 2023, published an open letter requesting information from 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations regarding their political activities. From a political perspective, this is an interesting twist as...
CURRENT AFFAIRS & OPINION
Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision
While many of us are still thinking and learning about how the June 29, 2023 Supreme Court decision overturning affirmative action in college admissions will impact the broader nonprofit sector, here are thoughts from the majority opinion, dissents, and others regarding the two critical and, in my opinion, wrongfully...
Engaging Millennials and Gen Z by ChatGPT
This week, I’ll be presenting to the New York City Bar Association Nonprofit Organizations Committee on engaging Millennials and Gen Z. This opportunity was prompted by my earlier post – Nonprofits: Engaging Millennials and Gen Z. I have not previously used ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot generating a...
Nonprofit Radio: Gene & Amy’s 2023 Outlook
I recently joined fellow Nonprofit Radio contributor Amy Sample Ward in conversation with host Tony Martignetti about what we expect to see in the new year. Listen to the podcast here. Our esteemed contributors, Gene Takagi and Amy Sample Ward, reveal what they’re thinking about for the New Year....
10 Significant News Events of 2022
In 2022, a war began in Europe, the Supreme Court ended nearly 50-years of precedent by overturning Roe v. Wade, inflation rose, and climate change continued to be one of the defining issues of our time. Here is our list of 10 significant news events of 2022 affecting the...
Best of the Nonprofit Law Blog 2022
2022 was the year many of us treated as the one that followed the COVID pandemic, even though that’s not true at all. It was the year of the midterm elections, scary inflation figures, huge corporate profits, ever-continuing gun violence, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and increasing skepticism of...
Nonprofits: The Impact of Law on Trust
I had the pleasure of guest lecturing for Professor Louise Carroll’s class in the nonprofit administration program at USF earlier this week. While the focus of my talk was on nonprofit law, I first examined the subject of trust in nonprofit organizations. In May 2022, Independent Sector published an...
Nonprofits: Engaging Millennials and Gen Z
Nonprofit leadership is old. Literally. In age and in thinking. And the world is changing faster than these leaders can respond or get ahead of in part because they lack diverse perspectives and aren’t prioritizing the engagement of younger generations. When I suggested the engagement of younger persons (my...
What’s Your Nonprofit Doing to Fight Climate Change?
Nonprofits with environmental missions are actively working to educate the public, advocate for behavioral and policy changes, and create innovative solutions to address the climate change crisis. But despite their efforts, and those of millions of individual advocates, the outlook remains dire. Not enough is being done … even...
Seeking Nominations for the 2022 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Awards
The Committee on Nonprofit Organizations of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section is calling for nominations for the “2022 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Awards.” The Committee presents the Awards annually to outstanding lawyers in the categories of Academic, Attorney, Nonprofit In-House Counsel, and Young Attorney (under 35 years old or in...