Deciphering the Economic Stimulus Package and State Budget: What Nonprofits Need to Know and Do Next

Location

Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, Warren Auditorium

Free

A conversation featuring

• Congresswoman Susan Davis: The stimulus package and what it means to nonprofit organizations and the people they serve
• Karen Baker, California Secretary for Service and Volunteering: The state strategy for working with nonprofit organizations
• Rick Cohen, noted author and Third Sector policy expert: The short and long-term implications of the recovery package for nonprofit organizations

The topics to be covered will include:

• What is in the economic stimulus package for nonprofits and their constituents
• How would the president’s budget affect philanthropy and the nonprofit sector
• How the federal and state governments plan to make use of the stimulus as it pertains to nonprofits and their constituents
• How the federal and state governments plan to orient their work with nonprofits
• What nonprofits did—and perhaps should have done—to weigh in on the stimulus and what that says about the nonprofit sector today
• What nonprofits should be doing now to ensure that the stimulus funds do not repeat the Katrina and TARP experiences
• What nonprofits might want to see in a second stimulus package
• What a nonprofit-specific stimulus might contain