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This week, the National Council of Nonprofits brought together leaders to discuss the ongoing litigation involving charitable nonprofits and ways philanthropy can support nonprofits during this difficult period. Watch the full webinar for actionable next steps. #Nonprofits #CommunityImpact

Let’s be clear eyed about what‘s happening: a coordinated assault on civil society and democracy by the Trump Administration. In addition to attempts to starve nonprofits of funding to serve communities and people, attempts to destroy federal agencies, vilify media, eliminate libraries, and control arts and culture, see all the connected actions: - The head of DOGE regularly maligns nonprofits, calling them scams, frauds, and a “major front in a battle against tyranny”. VP Vance called major foundations “cancers on American society.” President Trump called nonprofits “thugs and sleazebags.” His deputy COS says nonprofits do “wicked and nefarious things” with federal $. - President Trump ordered excluding nonprofits working with immigrants, trans people, and those protesting injustice from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. - His FBI has opened erroneous criminal investigations against nonprofits that received congressionally appropriated funding to combat climate change. - The president invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime power allowing him to deport legal immigrants with no due process. He defied a court order to halt the deportations. - He’s ordered - by April 20 - the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Defense to advise if he should invoke the Insurrection Act, which would allow him to deploy US military in the US to suppress civil disorder. - He’s directed - by mid-May - each of dozens of federal agencies to identify to the Attorney General large nonprofit organizations, major foundations, corporations, state and local medical associations, and universities for civil compliance investigations. Congressional hearings and referrals for criminal investigations may follow. With all this, I’m often asked - of all the threats to the nonprofit sector, what concerns me most? My answer is - the silence. In this moment, with the onslaught of threats against civil society, what concerns me most is the silence of too many. That’s why today’s NCN webinar was so heartening and inspiring, filled with leaders who are being anything but silent. In a time like this, we must speak out. Step up. Stay united. We are built for this moment. Let’s meet it, together.

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This Thursday - join us for a discussion about "The Myth of the Nice Girl"! Register at the link so we know how many are coming.

Christopher J. Ryan, Jr. on the Nonprofit Law Blog: "If nonprofits are no longer seen as politically neutral, then tax law will inevitably become a battleground for determining?which entities are deemed sufficiently “public serving” to justify their tax benefits.?That is a dangerous precedent, one that could lead to?selective enforcement of tax-exempt status?based on ideological considerations rather than legal and economic principles. At a minimum, this trend suggests that nonprofit organizations should be prepared for?heightened scrutiny, increased compliance burdens, and potentially even taxation of income streams that were previously considered exempt.?The larger question is whether the nonprofit sector can withstand this level of politicization—or whether we are witnessing the beginning of a fundamental rethinking of tax exemption itself. One thing is clear:?the privileged tax treatment of nonprofits can no longer be taken for granted."

NCN continues to fight for the nonprofit sector.

Join us next week for our first IN PERSON Book Club of the year. We will be at the Headquarters at CNX, 1000 Horizon Vue Drive, Canonsburg PA from 3 PM - 4:30 PM on March 19th. As always, you do not have to read the book to participate. Register here: https://lnkd.in/e_ZA9MfR

We are excited to get started with Board Training for these Washington County organizations! Many thanks to WCCF for ensuring nonprofits have the right foundation to thrive!

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