April 30, 2025

Call to Action for Red State Nonprofits


Urgent Call to Action: Are you a nonprofit professional living or operating in a state or Congressional District that is represented by a Republican in the United States Senate or House of Representatives? Then we've got an important mission for you.

(If you are in a "blue" state or Congressional District, you've got work to do, as well. Please share this Call to Action with nonprofit colleagues who are in Red States or in Red Congressional Districts, and encourage them to take action.)

We need to help our Republican elected officials on Capitol Hill understand why they should oppose attacks on nonprofit tax exemption from being included in the tax bill. Whatever gets into the bill is likely to pass through the reconciliation process, which only needs a simple majority to pass.

It’s of utmost importance that you contact your Senators and Member of Congress by phone, email, or meeting. Educate them in these 3 areas (from your own authentic perspective) to stop destructive nonprofit policies from becoming part of the tax bill:

  1. The Value of Nonprofits to their Constituents: The value of nonprofits to their constituents. For example, how nonprofits deliver excellent services to the community, sometimes on behalf of (or instead of) the government; create meaningful spiritual and civic quality of life for their voters; bring money into the state/district through grants, contracts, and donations; offer significant jobs and benefits for their constituents; and contribute payroll taxes and other dollars into the community. 
  2. The Damage Done by Current Attacks: Share how your organization (and other nonprofits around you) have been detrimentally impacted by the executive orders, funding freezes, instability, and anti-nonprofit rhetoric that has come out of the Trump Administration. How more attacks from Congress will further degrade the state/district
  3. The Existential Threat of Potential Attacks in the Tax Bill : How extremely damaging it would be to their constituents, the community, the nonprofit sector, and the Republican Party, if Republicans withdraw tax exemption from any select sub-set of nonprofits, whether hospitals or otherwise, in the “reconciliation” tax bill they’re now developing. Ripping away tax exemption to entire categories of 501 organizations is unprecedented; those hospitals or other organizations would likely be destroyed. It would set an intolerable, unconstitutional precedent in which any Congress could decide it doesn’t like Christian churches, or Boys and Girls Scouts, and categorically eliminate their existence.
Resources:
Here are a few resources to help you make the case:

You can find a version of this Call to Action on our LinkedIn page.
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hashtag#DefendDemocracy

Podcast:

We shared this Call to Action on an installment of our Defend Nonprofits, Defend Democracy Series on the Fund the People Podcast. Host Rusty Stahl offered updates on the Trump Administration's actions against nonprofits, and spoke with Laura Andes of Charity Navigator about how these cuts are affecting nonprofit organizations and leaders across America and globally.

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