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    Mark Hrywna

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    Mark has been with The NonProfit Times since 2005, where he’s become a sucker for stories about nonprofit governance, transparency and finances. His penchant for spreadsheets makes the annual NPT 100 report akin to Christmas morning, spread out over several months.

    Before joining NPT, Mark was in charge of about a dozen weekly newspapers in suburban New Jersey — where he’s lived his entire life with the exception of a four-year sojourn in central New York to earn a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York-Oswego. After more than a decade in the same keeper league, he’s still obsessively seeking his first fantasy baseball championship.

    Mark Hrywna's Articles

    • Lerner Out As IRS Exempt Organizations Boss

      By Mark Hrywna — May 24, 2013

      A day after invoking her 5th Amendment right not to testify before a congressional committee, Lois Lerner, the director of the Exempt Organizations (EO) Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was put on administrative leave. She had led the EO Division since 2006.

    • Boy Scouts Approve Change To Membership Policy

      By Mark Hrywna — May 23, 2013

      The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has voted to allow openly gay youth members but a ban remains in place on openly gay adult leaders. The resolution passed by a 61-38 percent margin among the 1,400 voting members.

    • IRS Official Pleads The 5th

      By Mark Hrywna — May 22, 2013

      Lois Lerner, director of the Exempt Organizations Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), invoked her 5th Amendment right not to testify but denied any wrongdoing in a statement to the House Committee On Oversight and Government Reform this morning.

    • Keeping Score With Capital Campaigns

      By Mark Hrywna — May 15, 2013

      Not many people like being recorded on video — or even audio for that matter. That notion didn’t stop the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO). In the midst of a $32-million capital campaign, the Newark, N.J., organization recorded their front-line fundraisers doing an elevator speech or mock scenarios making a gift ask. Then they were analyzed and critiqued in how they did, including a review by the CEO.

    • IRS Now Targeted After Stalling Tax-Exempts

      By Mark Hrywna — May 14, 2013

      The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeting conservative 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations will be the focus a hearing Friday morning in Washington, D.C., by the House Ways and Means Committee. The only witnesses are expected to be Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller and Treasury Inspector for General Tax Administration J. Russell George.

    • Scouts Will Propose To Allow Gay Members

      By Mark Hrywna — April 19, 2013

      The National Council of Boys Scouts of America (BSA) has proposed a resolution that would lift its ban on openly gay members, not merely leaving it to local councils to decide. The resolution would still bar gay adults from serving as leaders.

    • It’s Official: Center On Philanthropy Becomes a School

      By Mark Hrywna — April 10, 2013

      With the pomp and circumstance that will typically occur next month on college campuses, the nation’s first School of Philanthropy was christened on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

    • Wichita State Wants ‘Angry’ Donors

      By Mark Hrywna — April 5, 2013

      While Wichita State University (WSU) will be looking to “Play Angry” tomorrow against top-seeded Louisville in the men’s college basketball Final Four, its alumni association is asking donors to “Give Angry.”

    • Charities Push Senate On Restoring Deduction

      By Mark Hrywna — April 1, 2013

      Some of the nation’s most prominent charities and advocacy groups are asking the U.S. Senate Budget Committee to reconsider changes to the itemized deduction for charitable giving for fear that it would reduce giving by billions of dollars each year.

    • Americans Took More Deductions In 2011, Hitting $160 Billion

      By Mark Hrywna — April 1, 2013

      Americans took a collective $160.33 billion in tax deductions for charitable contributions in 2011, an increase of 1.4 percent compared to the $158.18 billion in 2010. The number of tax returns filed that included charitable deductions declined by 0.8 percent, from 38.1 million to 37.9 million.

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