The Zionist Advocacy Center’s (TZAC) May 26, 2020 Facebook post announced that it filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The complaint alleges that the WESPAC Foundation, a Westchester County, NY social justice
The complex maze of U.S. sanctions creates significant concerns for nonprofit organizations operating internationally. Standards are inconsistent across various sanctions programs, humanitarian exemptions are limited or nonexistent and vagueness creates compliance challenges. In this webinar
On May 27 U.S. Representatives Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ted Deutch (D-FL), and Max Rose (D-NY) introduced the National Commission on U.S. Counterterrorism Policy Act. The bill proposes the formation of
New changes to two documents related to USAID’s contract and certification process have reduced the “look-back” period from 10 to three years, and clarified that grantees need only check U.S. government and UN terrorist lists
Hazem Rihawi, a native from Aleppo, Syria, told me of his journey from work as a first responder in Syria, to his current home in Washington D.C. where he advocates for Syrian nonprofits as a
Alliance for Peacebuilding (AfP) and One Earth Future Foundation have released a 92-page final working paper providing a way forward for implementing the Global Fragility Act (GFA). Getting From Here to There: Successful Implementation of
Two letters sent from 18 members of Congress on April 22, 2020, ask three of the nations largest banks and four federal regulators to answer a series of questions about nonprofit organizations' financial access difficulties,
The global pandemic created by the rapid transmission of the novel coronavirus and the resulting outbreak of Covid-19 has affected every sector of the global economy, including nonprofit organizations (NPOs), which carry out the humanitarian
The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has forced us all to change the way we work and live, but it poses particularly difficult challenges for civil society organizations that work on the front lines of disaster, conflict
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is reminding the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve) that it should undertake a review of Bank Secrecy