Organization Trends

Organization Trends
Progressive Political Data Firm Warns Trump Could Win
Recently, Catalist, the left-of-center voter database and political data modeling firm, released Revisiting What Happened in the 2018 Election: An Analysis of the Catalist Voter Registration Database, a…
by Ken Braun on June 11, 2019

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The “Dark Money” Special Interests Waging War on Pebble Mine
There’s no shortage of wealthy environmentalist groups angling to keep Alaska from making use of its natural resources, usually by exploiting fears of pollution from the proposed Pebble mine, a…
by Hayden Ludwig on June 5, 2019

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The Trace: “Independent” Journalism, Paid for by Michael Bloomberg
The Trace may call itself an “independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit newsroom,” but it has one clear agenda in mind: restrictive gun control laws, an objective shared by its left-wing funders.
by Hayden Ludwig on June 4, 2019

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Critics Question Gillibrand’s ‘Clean Election’ Pledge
In a political era where voters are rewarding authenticity, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is at the back of the Democratic primary pack, struggling to square her expedient positions from more than…
by Susan Crabtree on June 4, 2019

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All Above All’s Pro-Abortion Protest
Pro-abortion protesters held a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on May 21st to attack what sign-wielding activists deemed the “GOP War on Women.” The protest was largely organized in…
by Hayden Ludwig on May 21, 2019

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MoveOn’s Immigration Rally
The left-wing agitation group MoveOn.org held a rally on May 16th outside of Union Station in Washington, D.C., to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies, which it called “hateful.”…
by Hayden Ludwig on May 17, 2019

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Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: A Way to Start Nonprofits
In his celebrated book Democracy in America (1848), the French observer of the mid-19th century United States, Alexis de Tocqueville, praises Americans' aptitude for what he calls “the art of joining” with…
by Neil Maghami on May 14, 2019

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Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: Incubation and the Tides Center
The above definitions emphasize fiscal sponsorship as a grassroots, community-level, activity. A different view of the concept comes into focus if one takes a top-down view of it, particularly considering…
by Neil Maghami on May 14, 2019

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Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: Obscuring Finances?
To illustrate some potentially problematic applications of the fiscal sponsorship concept, this report will look at some specific nonprofit organizations that are acting as sponsors on a scale that is…
by Neil Maghami on May 14, 2019

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Inside Fiscal Sponsorships: Improving Transparency
Speaking of the IRS—in 2012, the IRS’s own Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT) published a report that recommended changes to the rules governing fiscal sponsorship. The…
by Neil Maghami on May 14, 2019