The year 2025 marks “the fifth year that BDO and the Fraud Advisory Panel (both UK-based) worked together in partnership to combat charity fraud, coinciding with the tenth anniversary of Charity Fraud Awareness Week.” The purpose: “to raise the profile
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Mandatory Volunteerism: Take It Off the Back Burner
The almost daily barrage of bad-news bombshells from the nation’s capital invariably includes a familiar item or two.
Something we’ve seen before … in Trump 1.0.
Our reaction: We’ve dealt with it. Declared it dead. Buried it so deep in…
Insufficient Help From Funders For Beleaguered Nonprofits. Why?
During periods of relative calm as well as in crises, the prestigious Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) tracks and analyzes how the nation’s charitable nonprofits and their funders fare.
For the second time in five years, this sector is experiencing…
Center for Effective Philanthropy Reports “A Sector in Crisis”
In the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago, a comforting slogan went viral: “We’re all in this together.” A global health emergency had plunged the entire world into a shared cauldron of misery and devastation.
Within weeks,…
Group Exemptions Are Back Now After A Long Freeze
The long wait is over.
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service published the much-anticipated and greatly needed new procedures for obtaining and maintaining group tax exemptions. See Revenue Procedure 2026-8 [49 pp. PDF] (January 20, 2026); see also the companion…
There Are Already New Developments in the CA Budget Saga
“ – And so it begins…. Today, California will launch back into the perennial debate over how to spread its wealth around — and there are abundant assets to allocate.”
That was four years ago, on January 10, 2022.
A…
CA State Proposed Budget Moves Front and Center
“It’s budget season again” in California.
That’s the type of announcement that conjures up visions of bored officials and lawmakers, of “snooze fests of reviewing minutiae interrupted by periodic flare-ups of partisan temper tantrums.”
Occasionally, though, there are dramatic…
Some Early January Thoughts on the FPLG Blog for 2026
Twelve months ago, we explained: “As the clock strikes midnight this New Year’s Eve, with the final 2024 charitable contributions trickling in, there is one final task for the exhausted but grateful boards and staff of the nation’s 501(c)(3) organizations.…
December Fundraising Developments
Well before New Year’s Day last January 1st, there were growing concerns in the charitable community about a troubling downward trend in individual charitable giving year over year. While the total amount raised in this category had recently gone up,…
Nonprofit Security Grants: More News
The critical importance of the Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) is sadly validated with each tragic headline about violence at a nonprofit institution or event.
We first covered this much-sought-after source of federal financial assistance last spring. What prompted that…