National Council in the News

One group watching the Washington tax discussions carefully is the National Council of Nonprofits, whose members depend on charitable donations.

In urging Congress to keep the charitable deduction intact, the group points out that nonprofits provide many social services that Americans depend on and the government can't afford to fund alone.

“Our message to them is: "We rely on the giving incentive, and you rely on us,'” said David Thompson, the council's vice president for public policy.

Jennifer Chandler, Vice President and Director of Network Support and Knowledge Sharing, is interviewed about nonprofit capacity building on the Not for Profit Exchange on Blog Talk Radio.

The Congressional “super committee” that is seeking ways to close the federal budget deficit is giving the nonprofit world a super headache.

Nonprofit advocates have waged a fierce lobbying campaign to convince the committee, which is supposed to make its recommendations next week, not to limit the value of the charitable deduction in its quest for more revenue. But despite their entreaties, they have not been able to get the 12 members of the secretive panel to spill the beans about what’s under consideration.

“They’re all saying, ‘We’re not making any comments,’ ” says David L. Thompson, vice president for public policy at the National Council of Nonprofits, which has mobilized an army of nonprofit activists across the country to contact super-committee members and other members of Congress.