Unifying Our Sector’s Response
By Independent Sector in Blog onIt is hard to believe it’s only been about a week since the IS office moved to fully remote.…
DC Download – March
By Independent Sector in Blog onWhat a month March has turned out to be. Washington DC is no exception to the rest of the…
Independent Sector Action Center
By Dylan Fitzgerald onAll nonprofits have a vital role to play in strengthening democracy, advancing freedom of expression, and adding richness and…
Our Policy Response to COVID-19
By Independent Sector in Blog onWhile perhaps a bit over-simplified, when Independent Sector thinks about what exemplifies a healthy civil society, we think of…
Research Round Robin: March 2020
By Independent Sector in Blog onIndependent Sector has collected another month’s worth of research with broad sector relevance that we’d like to share with…
Update on Senate COVID-19 Relief Package
By Independent Sector in Uncategorized onI am writing to provide a very quick update as to where things stand on mid-Sunday afternoon regarding the…
COVID-19 Relief Legislative Update
Leaders from Independent Sector and Washington Council Ernst & Young update the sector on the latest developments with the…
Senate Republicans Introduce New COVID-19 Stimulus Package
By Independent Sector in Blog onLast night, Senate Republicans introduced their version of a third coronavirus response package. While not yet near what the…
Leading in a Time of Pandemic: A Policy Update
By Independent Sector in Blog onThree weeks ago, I took the IS public policy team into a retreat (on site at IS – nothing…
Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Summary for Nonprofits
By Dylan Fitzgerald in Policy Brief onThe Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201) was signed by President Donald Trump on March 18. A congressional…
A Call for $60 billion Stimulus to Help Communities in Need
By Independent Sector in Blog onIndependent Sector joined more than 50 nonprofit organizations in calling Congress to pass a $60 billion stimulus package to…
Houses Passes COVID-19 Relief Bill With Nonprofit Provisions
By Independent Sector in Uncategorized onThe U.S. House of Representatives pass H.R. 6201 in the early morning hours of March 14. The Families First Coronavirus Response…
COVID-19 and the Remote Office: Privacy, Cybersecurity, & Insurance
Most business continuity plans assume the inevitability of short-term outages, and include strategies to deploy people to alternate work…
Monthly Policy Update – March 2020
Congress and the White House have scrambled to respond to the COVID-19 virus, passing multiple pieces of ambitious legislation to…
Charity Voice Needed in DAF Conversations
By Independent Sector in Blog onPolicymakers, academics, and nonprofit leaders have been talking about the proper role and oversight of donor-advised funds (DAFs) for…
DC Download – February
By Independent Sector in Blog onSpring has sprung early in DC, and with it some important issues affecting nonprofits, like the release of the…
Reimagining Volunteerism & Service Blog Series
By Dylan Fitzgerald onAs a home for nonprofits, foundations, and corporate allies engaged in every kind of charitable endeavor, Independent Sector is…
Mission Possible: Connecting Poverty and Voter Engagement
By Independent Sector in Blog onNonprofit VOTE and Independent Sector are partnering to bring you “Mission Possible,” a new blog series that explores the…
29 Ways to Make the Most of Leap Day!
By Independent Sector in Blog onIt’s 2020! That means a lot of things – including the census, the Presidential election, and an extra day…
Research Round Robin: February 2020
By Independent Sector in Blog onWe’ve collected another month’s worth of research with broad sector relevance that drew our interest – and thought you’d…