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Punching Down to Silence the Radical Left

Michael Kwet / Truthdig Jan 13, 2025 The Stop Terror-Financing bill would strangle nonprofits on the political and financial edge. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

These Nonprofits Spend Almost Nothing on Their Causes

Ellis Simani / ProPublica Jun 18, 2024 A group of connected political nonprofits appear to be funneling more than 90% of donations to fundraisers. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Economic Justice

Reining in CEO Pay Could Start With the Kingpins of Nonprofits

Sam Pizzigati / Inequality.org Apr 9, 2024 Nonprofits don’t have the political clout of their corporate counterparts, so balancing the CEO-worker pay ratio should be easier. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

How To Create A U.S.-Backed Government Coup For Fun & Profit!

Lee Camp / Truthdig Aug 27, 2018 You can play along at home—especially if your home is in Nicaragua or Venezuela. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

This Pakistani Festival Makes Education a Fun Activity

Zubeida Mustafa / Truthdig Feb 15, 2018 In a country where public school systems are failing, a growing nonprofit organization shows students and teachers how to revitalize learning. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Tax Move Would Let Churches Endorse or Oppose Candidates

Emily Wells / Truthdig Dec 5, 2017 Some in Congress hope to drop a 1950s-era amendment from the final tax bill and allow nonprofits to engage in political activity without losing tax-exempt status. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Big Banks Trying to Kill Off Credit Unions

BLANK Sep 19, 2013 In an effort to gain even more control of Americans' banking assets, the banking industry is trying to stamp out member-owned credit unions -- which began amid the banking failures of the Great Depression -- by stripping them of their nonprofit status. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Meet the Secret $256 Million Bank for Right Wing Causes

BLANK Sep 13, 2013 A new IRS filing reveals that a shadowy Koch brothers-led nonprofit, Freedom Partners, spent nearly a quarter-billion dollars trying to influence 2012 elections and policy discussions. Most of the donors remain secret. Can you say, "oligarchy"? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Dirty Secret of Some Pro Sports Leagues: They’re Nonprofits

BLANK Sep 12, 2013 There's a ripple of movement in Congress to strip nonprofit status from pro sports businesses such as the NFL and PGA, raising fresh questions about why taxpayers should support billion-dollar entertainment industries. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Student Loan Shuffle

By Marian Wang, ProPublica Apr 24, 2012 Since last fall, one million borrowers have had their federal student loans randomly assigned to new loan-servicing companies, all nonprofits or subsidiaries of nonprofit organizations, thanks to a little-known provision in the 2010 healthcare overhaul. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Joseph Kony and the ‘Visible Children’

Staff / Truthdig Mar 7, 2012 Updated Ugandan guerrilla leader Joseph Kony has forced more than 60,000 kidnapped children to kill for him Nonprofit crusaders Invisible Children say they’ll stop him, but the group has its own problemsUgandan guerrilla leader Joseph Kony has forced more than 60,000 children to kill for him. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

IRS to Tax the Purchase of Political Power Through Nonprofits

Staff / Truthdig May 13, 2011 Clandestine political financiers such as David H. Koch, who along with his brother Charles has bankrolled the tea party movement, may soon be hit with “gift taxes” for each donation to nonprofit political advocacy groups. The Internal Revenue Service has been able to tax such contributions since 1982, but it has rarely happened, The New York Times reports. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )