Governments Must Stop Putting Burdens on Nonprofits
As governments take away benefits of tax-exempt status, some groups might just quit making service to society their top priority, wrote Peter Goldberg, a veteran nonprofit executive, shortly before he died last week.
By Peter Goldberg
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It’s Time for Philanthropic Institutions to Speak Out on Public-Policy Matters
Philanthropy needs to interact with government more closely, and not worry so much about what it cannot do to influence legislation—but what it can do.
By Peter Goldberg
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America Needs a New Way to Finance Social Services
New ideas on how to finance the nation’s social-service system.
By Peter Goldberg and Dennis Richardson
Tread Lightly in Nonprofit Mergers
Economic forecasters may differ about the projected length and severity of the recession, but it seems to be more significant than the nonprofit world has faced in a long time. Some of the estimates of what might happen are dire. Indeed, Paul Light, a scholar at New York University, has suggested…
By Peter Goldberg
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A Tax Break That Is Good for Charity Workers
By PETER B. GOLDBERGCharity executives will be paying close attention over the coming months to one of the Bush administration’s central tax proposals: eliminating the estate tax, and with it, the deduction for charitable bequests from the estates of wealthy people. But another tax-policy issue --…
By Peter Goldberg
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Foundations and Charities: Ties Worth Preserving
Working together, foundations and their non-profit partners have made extraordinary contributions to the quality of life of individuals and communities, and to the national well-being. But the nature of that partnership and the bedrock values that have long undergirded America’s non-profit world…
By Peter Goldberg
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