No Longer Someone Else’s Work to Do
By Independent Sector in Blog on“I certainly don’t know, at this moment, which way the country might flip. It can lurch backward as quickly…
DC Download July 2021
By Independent Sector in Blog onThis year is going by fast. It is hard to believe we are already in the middle of summer.…
Research Round Robin: July 2021
By Independent Sector in Blog onOn Trust: Majority Remain Confident in Nonprofit and Philanthropic SectorFor the second year in a row, Independent Sector published…
Nonprofit Leaders and The White House Made Progress on Vaccination Rates in June
By Independent Sector in Blog onNonprofits and communities participated in the June National Month of Action to increase COVID-19 vaccinations. Through the We Can…
Monthly Policy Update – July 2021
Weeks after an announced “deal”, negotiators are still pulling together the details of bipartisan infrastructure legislation. Will key aspects…
Accelerating Charitable Efforts (ACE) Act Summary and Key Context
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Policy Brief onOn June 9, 2021, Senators King (ME) and Grassley (IA) introduced the Accelerating Charitable Efforts (“ACE”) Act, which revises…
What Happens When the Nonprofit Trust Bubble Bursts?
Healing and rebuilding trust in civil society is a key component of any recovery effort. Public trust in nonprofits…
DC Download June 2021
By Independent Sector in Uncategorized onSummer is officially here and that means crunch time for Congress to figure out what to do with the…
Building A People-Centered Infrastructure Plan On The Road To Economic Recovery
By Independent Sector in Blog onThe following is a guest blog by Katie Spiker, National Skills Coalition. The blog is a component of the…
Health of the U.S. Nonprofit Sector 2020
By Dylan Fitzgerald onNonprofits make up 5.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)In 2019, Americans gave $450 billion to charity, but the number…
The Road to Transportation Equity
By Independent Sector in Blog onThe following is a guest blog by Axel Santana of PolicyLink, an Independent Sector and Nonprofit Infrastructure Investment Advocacy Group (NIIAG)…
Research Round Robin: June 2021
By Independent Sector in Uncategorized onThe State of Youth Employment: Navigating the World of Work During COVID-19How are young people navigating the world of…
Monthly Policy Update – June 2021
High wire infrastructure negotiations between President Biden and a key Republican Senator have ended without resolution, but other bipartisan…
We Can Do This
By Independent Sector in Blog onIt is worth reminding nonprofit and foundation leaders that – despite our constant journey of improvement in service to…
Wins of Omission
By Independent Sector in Blog onPresident Joe Biden released his first annual budget proposal last week, a $6-trillion blueprint that somehow manages to be…
Independent Sector Statement on the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request
By Independent Sector in Press Release on(WASHINGTON, May 28, 2021) – Daniel J. Cardinali, president and CEO of Independent Sector, issues the following statement:“It’s deeply gratifying…
DC Download May 2021
By Independent Sector in Blog onSummer is just around the corner, but that has not stopped President Biden from gathering support for his infrastructure…
Special Briefing: Nonprofits and Vaccine Acceptance
With COVID vaccines now widely available, America is tantalizingly close to reclaiming some of the things we lost over…