Proposed Federal Bill to Focus on the Needs of Nonprofits

Tim Delaney of the National Council of Nonprofits underscored the concern that the federal government has not been paying sufficient attention to nonprofits.  According to Delaney, the federal government can count heads of iceberg lettuce in the ground, but not how many people work for nonprofits—or what they need.  Delaney called it a veil of invisibility around the nonprofit sector.

Among the many state nonprofit associations represented in the crowd, Brian Magee of the Montana Nonprofit Association told NPQ that he hoped that this effort would help galvanize and coordinate federal attention to rural nonprofit issues and communities. Doug Sauer of the New York Council of Nonprofits noted that the government/nonprofit dynamic isn’t just a federal issue and called for McCollum’s bill to be replicated in all 50 states.