Each year, by January 10th, the California governor must release a proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year beginning in the summer.
That constitutionally mandated first step starts up a carefully regimented, six-month-long, dance between the state’s executive and legislative
Against a background of uncertainty and – perhaps – turmoil, the nation’s charitable nonprofits are now at the start of the 2025 fundraising season.
A few years ago in 2022, just ahead of the critical holiday-season rush to secure as
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.
It’s the timely delivery of
In the final week of June 2024, the Supreme Court released the last batch of major rulings for the term.
One of these cases involved the fate of a nerdy 40-year-old doctrine in administrative law known as “Chevron Deference.” Few
“Ten years ago, in early summer 2014,” the For Purpose Law Group “formally leaped into the blogosphere.”
It was still a relatively new phenomenon; indeed, it could not have happened at all without the magic of the rapidly
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
“Nine years ago, the idea that charities could fall victim to fraud was met with disbelief. The term ‘fraud’ had to be used cautiously, and the notion that charities were targeted seemed far-fetched.”
At last week’s 9th annual Charity Fraud
It was one of our most popular blog posts from 2023: Some Charity Fraud With Your Hot Dog, Sir? (September 1, 2023).
There was a scandal at Petco Park, breaking in headlines in the award-winning Voice of San Diego,
You’re invited on a small road trip with us over the next few posts.
The journey begins at Point A with an October 2024 update to one of our most popular posts from last year: Some Charity Fraud With Your
“What we know is this: much of our work just became simultaneously more difficult and more important than ever.”
Those were the first public comments by Geoff Green, the CEO of the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofits) on the uncertainties