Hosting Candidates at Charitable Events: Ensuring Candidate Appearances Remain Nonpartisan
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Hosting candidate debates: Public Charities Can Educate the Community Through Candidate Debates
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Guía de Elecciones para Caridades Públicas 501(c)(3): Asegurando que las actividades de promoción y defensa de causas durante años electorales se queden apartidistas
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Election Checklist for Houses of Worship
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Election Checklist for 501(c)3 Public Charities (Korean translation)
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Election Checklist for 501(c)(3) Public Charities (Khmer translation)
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Election Checklist for 501(c)(3) Public Charities: Ensuring Election Year Advocacy Efforts Remain Nonpartisan
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Comparison of 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s, and Political 527 Organizations
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This chart offers an overview of the different types of organizations and what kinds of activities each may conduct and highlights some that they may not conduct. It is excerpted from our popular guide "The Connection: Strategies for Creating and Operating 501(c)(3)s, 501(c)(4)s, and Political Organizations."
Communicating with Your Members: Tracking and Treating Grassroots Communications with Members
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Federal tax law allows certain lobbying communications with a 501(c))(3) public charity’s members to be treated more favorably than communications with the general public. This fact sheet provides information on how to identify such communications and explains how to track and treat them. It is important to understand the basic lobbying rules and the differences between direct and grassroots lobbying before delving into the member communication rules discussed in this fact sheet.
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Common Interests: How Unions and 501(c)(3) Organizations Can Maximize Their Power To Make Policy Change
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Maximize Your Lobbying Limit: Elect to Measure Your Lobbying Using the 501(h) Expenditure Test
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501(c)(3) Contact with Parties and Candidates Concerning Election Protection Efforts
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This fact sheet offers some guidelines for when it's appropriate for a 501(c)(3) group working on election protection issues to talk with a candidate or party -- and when it's not.
501(c)(3) Organizations and National Party Conventions
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Administrative Advocacy: Influencing Rules, Regulations, and Executive Orders
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Amplify Your Voice: Lobbying Do’s and Don’ts
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You have a voice - it's time to use it. Lobbying is a key way nonprofits can advance their mission, amplify the voices of their supporters, educate policymakers, and protect the values they hold dear.