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...This is probably the biggest terrorist trial in Germany this year," Ulrich Egger, spokesman for the Higher Regional Court in Dusseldorf, tells TIME. "The defendants are accused of planning a huge attack using explosives which would have been equivalent to 400 kilos...
...Borochoff warns that if charities get involved in politics, it will invite even more scrutiny to an already heavily regulated field. But Egger says bring it on. "Nonprofits have for too long been complacent to let others tell us what we can and can't do," he says...
...Egger is not the only nonprofit leader using next year's early primaries to thrust his agenda into the national spotlight. Bill Gates, whose foundation is the world's largest philanthropy, last month called on presidential contenders to commit to expanding the President's Malaria Initiative, a $1.2 billion effort started by President Bush in 2005 to cut malaria deaths by 50% in 15 African nations. "I hope you will join us in asking all of the candidates to make this pledge and keep the fight against malaria on the national agenda," Gates wrote in an October 19 blog post...
...telling candidates that we're the problem solvers of our communities," Mills says. "And you can see many of them having that 'aha' moment." But Egger and his comrades are walking a tightrope. For one thing, they risk alienating the donors on whom they count on for operating funds. More significantly, they could be breaking the law. Nearly all nonprofits are set up under Section 501 (c) (3) of the IRS code, which grants them tax-exempt status if they agree to stay out of politics - only 20% of their budgets can go to political or lobbying work, which must...
...work on a national scale ahead of next November's election. Its goal will be to put collaboration with charities and foundations in each party's platform next summer, and maybe even advocating for the naming of a Secretary of Community Service at some point in the future. Egger also hopes to persuade his nonprofit peers to emulate corporate America and form a Chamber of Commerce-type umbrella group to lobby Congress. He dismisses claims the sector is too diverse to unite. "When something's bad for business, they don't dwell on their differences," Egger says. "They just band...