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...were up to Robert Egger, the 2008 campaign endorsements would carry messages like "Girl Scouts Choose Hillary" or "The Cleveland Library Votes Giuliani." Well, not exactly, but what Egger, who runs a Washington, D.C., soup kitchen, does want is for nonprofit organizations to break their traditional silence in presidential politics - a silence prompted by the complex rules governing tax-exempt status. Egger points out that nonprofits employ 14 million Americans, nearly 10% of the national workforce, and hold assets of $1.76 trillion. "We've got to organize," Egger urges, "take our seat at the table and be heard...
...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...
...This time around, New Hampshire nonprofit leaders are learning the art of bird-dogging. One, Cynthia Mills, CEO of the Manchester-based Tree Care Industry Association, has met 11 candidates at house parties and town hall meetings, peppering them with questions on how they envision a future partnership with the nonprofit sector. The Nonprofit Primary Project hopes to meet with all the presidential hopefuls one-on-one before the January primary, and on September 6 held its first public forum, with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican contender...
...they'd stepped over the line, and a further 60 are under investigation. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in August returned a $50,000 check to a Colorado family foundation after his policy organization determined the donation was illegal. Losing tax-exempt status could be financially devastating to smaller nonprofits. "You do have to be careful," says Ann Kuster, a lawyer advising the Nonprofit Primary Project. "Everything we undertake must be nonpartisan and include every candidate...
...working hard on the other two. Knowing what Hollywood did for Toyota's Prius, Shaklee's publicity team has set up tables at the Emmy Awards and plans the same for the Oscars. Barnett has joined the board of the celebrity-heavy Environmental Media Association (EMA), which is a nonprofit Shaklee distributor (every purchase earns the EMA a donation). And those parties Sloan Barnett threw? They were attended by people with last names like Rockefeller, Seinfeld and Trump...