This webinar recording explores key provisions in the House-passed bill that may impact charitable giving, nonprofit tax-exempt status, and federal benefits for those served by nonprofits. It also provides updates on potential changes as the bill moves through the Senate.
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This webinar recording provides an update on state policy developments from January through May 2025 affecting charitable nonprofits including:
This webinar recording provides an update on the many federal policy developments from January through May 2025 affecting charitable nonprofits including:
- This guide provides answers to frequently asked questions that North Carolina nonprofits have about advocating for or against state constitutional amendments and other ballot measures.
- Nonprofit staff and the people we serve have expertise and lived experience that lawmakers need to hear in order to make the best possible policy decisions. It's essential to build relationships with lawmakers if for no other reason than to limit the harm they might cause the people you serve.
The Opportunity Agenda designed the Vision, Values, and Voice: A Communications Toolkit to help organizations "be effective in moving hearts, minds and policy over the long term...[by] integrated messaging and narrative strategies that both mobilize our base and expand our constituencies by bringing those in the middle toward our cause." The toolkit 
In this critical moment of recovery with the persistence of barriers to resiliency, public funding for the public good can provide a critical support to protecting families and communities and advancing more equitable outcomes by laying the foundation for a better North Carolina. Essential to making progress in the long-term towards our shared goals is the ability of the state to raise the funds needed and the important role we all can play in making the case for public investments.
Venable LLP, a private law firm, produced a free video Lobbying Considerations for Nonprofits: What Your Organization Needs to Know, which gives a good overview of acceptable and prohibited activities for nonprofits who have or have not taken the 501(h) election, as well as reporting lobbying-related expenses in Schedule C of Form 990.
Whether through traditional or digital mediums, nonprofits must tell their stories effectively to garner attention in a crowded media landscape.
How to Tell Stories
Nonprofits must be conscious of the ways they represent the populations they serve, being careful to respect the individual or group's agency, empower rather than victimize or exploit, avoid re-traumatization, and think ahead about the way presenting that story to the world will affect the storyteller's life in the future.
Introduction to Ethical Storytelling