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- Proposed Phoenix Homeless Feeding Ordinance
What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know Before the May 6 Vote On May 6, 2026, the Phoenix City Council is expected to vote on a homeless feeding ordinance that would reshape how nonprofits, mutual aid groups, and faith communities deliver food and medical care in city parks. If adopted in its current form, the measure
- Why Unauthorized Donation Pages Are a Real Problem for Nonprofits
This month, 23 state Attorneys General and Secretaries of State sent a letter to GoFundMe expressing grave concerns about the platform’s creation of donation webpages for more than 1.4 million nonprofits without their prior knowledge or consent. Last week, Alaska Attorney General Stephen Cox announced lawsuits against six crowdfunding platforms over similar conduct. These developments
- Mission Control Command Center – Another Attempt to Target Nonprofits
The latest report that the FBI and IRS have created a new “mission control command center” to investigate nonprofits for possible ties to political violence or domestic terrorism should alarm the nonprofit sector. Not because nonprofits are above the law. They are not. But because this appears to be another step in a growing effort