It was a year of economic disruptions and political turbulence: wave after wave, sometimes within a single, 24-hour, news cycle. But the just-published Giving USA 2025 report – released yesterday – offers some rare good news for philanthropy after the
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In Sacramento, It’s High Noon for the FY ’26-’27 CA Budget
Earlier this week on Monday, June 15, 2026, California’s legislative leaders happily announced their much-anticipated budget agreement: “AB 109 – Budget Act of 2026 had been “enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 p.m.”
The lawmakers had discharged…
Important New Case on “Employee” vs. “Volunteer”
“Because charities enjoy favored status under the law and do important work in their communities, directors and staff are sometimes lulled into thinking that the rules – including labor laws”- either don’t apply to them at all or “can be…
CEP’s “State of Nonprofits 2026”
“‘The nonprofit sector has been roasted on the outside’ … like a hard pretzel rod on the verge of snapping in half. ‘That’s how fragile things are right now.’”
It was late May 2023 when Tim Delaney, (then) CEO…
Nonprofit Security Grant Program: More News and Issues
“[M]any nonprofits operate in vulnerable spaces that are open to the public, and they often lack the resources to invest in security on their own,” according to “San Diego attorney May L. Harris, whose For Purpose Law Firm specializes in…
The CA Budget Revision: More Reaction
It’s that frenetic time of year again in Sacramento – May 15th through June 15th – when the annual battle over the California state budget plays out.
More accurately, in flush years – good examples being 2021 and 2022 –…
CA Mid-May Budget Revision is Out
- “….Dominance: That’s the way to describe in one word the State of California. We simply have no peers. We are the temple of the American economy….”
Those are the comments of Governor Gavin Newsom on May 14, 2026, as…
CA Nonprofit Grantmaking Reform: Exciting New Developments
In 2023, the hottest legislative news out of Sacramento for California’s charitable sector was the ambitious California Nonprofit Equity Initiative.
Spearheaded by the California Association of Nonprofits, it was a seven-bill package of much-needed reforms of the state’s grantmaking…
Bill in CA Legislature Aims to Protect Against Exemption-Revocation Threats
Since Day One of the second Trump administration, there have been continual threats to the nation’s charitable nonprofits, including: cutting off funding, unilaterally reversing decades of settled “public policy,” and actively meddling in plans and programs to an unprecedented degree.…
CA State Budget Negotiations Heat Up
This is the fifth year in a row that we’ve reported in real time on the extraordinary “budget process” of a state with an economy larger than most nations in the world and a population that includes about 1 out…