Public Policy Articles & Analysis

A new state law that took effect on January 1, 2022 requires local government elected officials who serve on nonprofit boards to recuse themselves from decisions to provide government funding to those organizations. The law means that most local officials who serve on nonprofit boards won’t be allowed to vote on local government budgets that include funding for the nonprofits on whose boards they serve.

On February 14, 2022, a broad coalition of national nonprofits sent a letter to President Biden and congressional leaders calling for “urgently needed pandemic and workforce shortage relief that will enable charitable organizations to fulfill their roles in our nation’s relief, recovery, and rebuilding.” The letter identifies nonprofit-specific policy solutions that would address three major challenges facing nonprofits:

As state legislators work to develop a state budget for FY2021-22, the Center will provide analysis of the ways that budget proposals would impact the work of nonprofits. To help your nonprofit digest the more than 1,400 pages of budget documents, the Center has developed a synopsis of nonprofit provisions and appropriations in the budget.