A task force established by Boston Mayor Thomas Menino yesterday issued recommendations aimed at encouraging nonprofits to make payments in lieu of taxes to compensate the city for providing fire, police, highway, and related services normally covered by real estate taxes.

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David Magnani, executive director of the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, the state’s nonprofit trade association, said, “The federal and state governments have made 501(c)(3) organizations tax exempt in order to pursue their mission and charitable purpose. It is their responsibility to adhere to those purposes when allocating their budget dollars.”

Nonprofits from time to time need to get the attention of legislators, but doing that effectively requires planning and crafting the right message. Here’s advice on how to do it – from the legislators themselves.

The Massachusetts Nonprofit Network this past fall held a number of meetings across the state, during which legislators offered tips and advice on how to get their attention.

massnonprofit.org
BOSTON — The Boston Foundation recently announced that it has awarded more than $12.7 million in grants, including $125,000 for general operating support to the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, the state’s nonprofit trade association.
The distribution includes $2.6 million in discretionary grants and more than $10 million in grants from funds held by [...]

Boston Business Journal
BOSTON – The Boston Foundation approved nearly $13 million in grants Friday, a wide range of support that includes a long list of nonprofit organizations as well as two public education agencies.
Of the millions approved, $2.6 million comes in discretionary grants and the remaining $10 million in grants from [...]

PR Newswire
BOSTON – The partnership between Bunker Hill Community College and the Pathway Technology Campus (PTC) of Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA) offers a direct pathway into higher education and careers. The IBA was recently honored as a Finalist for the 2010 Massachusetts Non-Profit Network Excellence Awards in the collaboration category. The [...]

Third Sector New England
BOSTON — Third Sector New England has released preliminary findings from Valuing Our Nonprofit Workforce 2010: A Compensation Survey of and for Nonprofits in Massachusetts and Adjoining Communities, providing, in many cases, a first glimpse at data on pay for staff at small to medium sized non-profit organizations in the [...]