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1 month ago | 
cityandstateny.com | Brian Kavanagh |Linda Rosenthal |Christine C. Quinn |James Whelan
What do two New York state housing chairs, the president of the Real Estate Board of New York and the CEO of Women in Need have in common? Our strong commitment to passing the Housing Access Voucher Program, or HAVP, in this year’s state budget.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Linda Rosenthal
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Linda Rosenthal
Over the last two decades, the attorneys general of the individual states have aggressively reasserted their longstanding – but mostly dormant – power to regulate charities and charitable trusts within their borders. Leading the pack is the Office of the California Attorney General with jurisdiction over the largest charitable sector in the nation.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Linda Rosenthal
What is the most “… striking example of why and how nonprofits can use vigilance and advocacy to reform…” government policies and practices affecting the sector? It’s the almost decade and a half struggle to achieve the meaningful and nonprofit-friendly overhaul – over 600 pages long! – of federal grantmaking regulations. See The Power of Perseverance, Government Grants Edition (April 8, 2024) by the National Council of Nonprofits, which was a prime mover in this major collaborative achievement.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Linda Rosenthal
For the nation’s nonprofit private schools, the summer of ‘22 was a time for planning a new term against the backdrop of two years of a devastating pandemic that had not yet fully released its grip. Then, in late July 2022, federal district judges on opposite coasts issued back-to-back, precedent-busting, rulings that rocked this segment of the 501(c)(3) community.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Linda Rosenthal
Over two years ago, as Governor Gavin Newsom approved AB 488, the nation’s first-of-its-kind charitable-crowdfunding law, the head of the California Association of Nonprofits, Jan Masaoka, described the statute as impacting “…every single person who clicks on that ‘donate now’ button and every single nonprofit that receives funding this way.” See A New Crowdfunding Law – At Last! (September 28, 2021).
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Linda Rosenthal
”’Myths abound “… about whether, or to what extent, a tax-exempt charitable organization may jump into the political fray as each election cycle heats up. Clearing away the fog is the goal of our special series: The Johnson Amendment: Bite-Sized Morsels for 2024 (January 24, 2024).
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Linda Rosenthal
For seven decades, the Johnson Amendment has hovered disquietingly over philanthropy in the United States. A mere 27 words long, it was a run-on sentence fragment slapped onto the tail end of the brand new section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. No one knew anything about it until, at the eleventh hour, the powerful Senate Minority Leader, Lyndon B. Johnson, drafted the language, and got it approved via a “floor amendment” with no debate or deliberations at all.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Linda Rosenthal
Violence is the second highest category of workplace injury. While nonprofits “… are working to help society, they are not immune to the danger of violence present in all workplaces.” Indeed, – for instance, social services agencies – report a higher number of incidents than the average across all work environments. Among the reasons for this spiked level of risk is the daily interaction by nonprofit personnel with many troubled people in desperate circumstances.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Linda Rosenthal
It was late last year at the 2023 White House Tribal Summit. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) happily announced the long-awaited release of a new rule “to improve implementation of” the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). It had, indeed, been an excruciatingly long wait: Congress passed NAGPRA in 1990. President George H.W. Bush immediately signed it into law. And then … not much happened for over three decades.
