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National Military Family Association and Elizabeth Dole Foundation…
The National Military Family Association , a nonprofit that works to strengthen military families, and the Elizabeth Dole Foundation , an organization that empowers, supports, and honors our nation's military caregivers, today hosted a forum focused on the children of caregivers. Participants worked together to gain a better understanding of the challenges faced by these children and produce a shared action plan that will serve as the basis for future programming and support.
U.S. patent system out of step with today’s citizens
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Koch Brothers-Linked Group Declares New War on Unions
Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that millions of public sector workers can stop paying union fees, a group tied to Republican billionaires long opposed to organized labor and its support of the Democratic Party has pledged to build on the landmark ruling to further marginalize employee representation. The conservative nonprofit Freedom Foundation said that starting Wednesday, it will deploy 80 people to a trio of West Coast union bastions: California, Oregon and its home state of Washington.
Mayor Turner says “No!” to the child detention warehouse
Mayor Sylvester Turner called on the owner of a building east of downtown Houston and the nonprofit hoping to operate the former warehouse as a detention center for immigrant children separated from their families at the nation's southern border to reconsider their plans. The mayor also said he is in no rush to issue city permits at the site, and called on the state not to issue a childcare license to the 54,000-square-foot facility two blocks north of BBVA Compass Stadium for use by federal contractor Southwest Key Programs.
Feds indict computer store owner for fraud
The indictment alleges that from 2007 to late 2017, Mays engaged in a scheme to defraud "Computers for Learning," a program administered by the General Services Administration. The CFL program facilitated the transfer of computers and related equipment owned by the federal government but excess to its needs, directly to schools and some educational nonprofit organizations at no cost.
migrant mother and child
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At the Border: Families Torn Apart
From Texas Monthly: "What's Really Happening at the Border " -- an interview with Anne Chandler, "executive director of the Houston office of the nonprofit Tahirih Justice Center, which focuses on helping immigrant women and children, she has been traveling to the border and to detention centers, listening to the parents' stories." What they do: care.
Father’s Day is ‘bittersweet’ for children who lost their dads in the line of duty
On Father's Day, Haley Hartwick usually stops by Texas Roadhouse, which was her father's favorite restaurant, to get a take-out dinner of steak and potatoes. She then likes to go home and watch the movie "Quest for Camelot," a film they enjoyed watching together.
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And since 1954, when the Johnson Act was passed, nonprofits, many of which are churches, have been prohibited from engaging in political activity. has created a vibrant charitable marketplace, with people finding creative ways to provide social services independent of government.
Flag gardens taking root across country
The solemn display of tens of thousands of U.S. flags that first appeared on Boston Common for Memorial Day nearly a decade ago, honoring service members who died defending the nation, is slowly becoming a national movement. The flag gardens, as they are known, can be seen this weekend in Texas, Louisiana, Ohio and New York, all started by residents inspired by the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund tribute established in 2010.
White-Collar Prosecutions Fall to 20-Year Low Under Trump
The number of white-collar prosecutions is on track to hit a 20-year low under President Donald Trump, after reaching a high in 2011 during the Barack Obama administration, according to a nonprofit research center that analyzes government data. A total of 3,249 cases were brought during the first seven months of the U.S. government's 2018 fiscal year, which runs from October 2017 to April 2018, according to a case-by-case analysis of government data by Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC.
Senate Bill 22 Only a Half Measure to Fix Gerrymandering
On Tuesday, May 22nd the Senate State Government Committee took a small step in the right direction toward fixing our broken redistricting process, but there is much more work to be done. Committee Chairs Mike Folmer, Anthony Williams and their colleagues responded to the outcry of Senator Lisa Boscola, concerned citizens, and reformers to fix the dysfunctional way Pennsylvania handles the drawing of congressional and legislative districts.
Chicago group sues to stop construction of Obama centre
In this May 3, 2017, file photo, former President Barack Obama speaks at a community event on the Presidential Center at the South Shore Cultural Center in Chicago. The Obama Presidential Center will not be a part of the presidential library network operated by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, Updated
As the little girl in the movie "Poltergeist" declared, "They're baaaack." This time, however, it is not evil ghosts reappearing to make us shiver, but real-life leftists transforming their mid-20th century social movement centered on college campuses and anti-war rhetoric, to one far more subtle and multi-pronged.
Labor and civil rights organizations call for EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s ouster
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt listens before President Trump arrives to speak during an energy roundtable with tribal, state and local leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in June. Environmental organizations have made themselves hoarse calling for Scott Pruitt's ouster from the Environmental Protection Agency over his efforts to roll back government regulations - and lately, his spending and personnel decisions.
Death on Southwest passenger jet ends near decade-long successful safety record
Almost 100 million U.S.-operated airline flights, carrying several billion people, had taken off and landed safely over a nine-year span since the last time a passenger died in an accident in the country. That record for avoiding fatalities - which had never been approached in the history of modern aviation - was splintered in an instant Tuesday when an engine on a Southwest Airlines Co.
States, online sellers bring sales tax fight to Supreme Court in case that could affect millions
Millions of merchants could be affected by the Supreme Court's decision in a case that could force online retailers to collect sales taxes in states where they have no physical presence. The case pits South Dakota against three companies, Wayfair, Overstock and Newegg.
Military Update: Pain alone can now be VA claim
Lawyers at the nonprofit National Veterans Legal Services Program had been screening Board of Veterans' Appeals decisions for years, looking for just the right case involving denial of disability compensation to a veteran suffering from chronic service-related pain but due to a condition that doctors couldn't diagnose. The nonprofit needed such a case to challenge a 1999 precedent-setting ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims that found VA was not required to compensate a veteran for pain if physicians aren't able to identify the cause.
NIAC Statement on Syria Strikes
"The situation in Syria is tremendously dangerous, and President Trump risks throwing fuel on the regional fire. Given that Iranian and Russian forces are closely embedded with Syrian government, there is a significant risk that any strikes will trigger retaliation and a bloodier, wider war with few discernible ways to deescalate the conflict.