An interesting approach to funding city projects...
So I was reading a story about how governments were slashing recreation department budgets and parks weren't being maintained as well as they have in the past because of the economic downturn, when all of a sudden in the last paragraph they mentioned what some local governments were doing to resolve the problem: soliciting donations from corporations and local nonprofits.
The recreation department supervisor said, "We want to reach out to the community. [Nonprofits and corporations] have their purposes and their goals. Why not join forces?"
Interestingly, she added that a lot of the organizations participated. Hmmm, I wonder why. How easy can it be to say no to government officials that could enact power to investigate the organization?
When government starts asking nonprofits for donations You have to wonder how much longer nonprofits don't have to pay taxes?
The recreation department supervisor said, "We want to reach out to the community. [Nonprofits and corporations] have their purposes and their goals. Why not join forces?"
Interestingly, she added that a lot of the organizations participated. Hmmm, I wonder why. How easy can it be to say no to government officials that could enact power to investigate the organization?
When government starts asking nonprofits for donations You have to wonder how much longer nonprofits don't have to pay taxes?
posted by Richard @ 5:24 PM
1 Comments:
At 11:15 AM, September 11, 2006,
Richard said…
You raise a very interesting question: should there be some sort of classification of nonprofits based on endowment size?
That way, smaller, "struggling" nonprofits could maintain their tax-free status while the financially secure ones could pay taxes.
Anyone else think this is the way to go?
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