Nonprofit news from around the web: Aug. 27 - 31

In case you missed them, here are some recent interesting nonprofit news items from around the web.

Opinion: Tax reform and the nonprofit board
Nonprofits have been raising the alarm that tax law changes might mean upwards of 21 million taxpayers will no longer claim the charitable tax deduction leading to a decrease in giving. But some nonprofit board members are telling concerned staff not to worry. What’s behind the disconnect?

IRS guidance affects treatment of employee parking expenses
New guidance says that UBIT arising from parking and transportation benefits isn’t subject to the “silo” rule. While this won’t help many 501(c)(3) groups paying UBIT for the first time under the new tax law, it does provide some relief for associations with multiple unrelated business income activities.

A brand new 4-H: Revitalizing a 100-year-old nonprofit
What do you think of when you hear 4-H? It typically conveys cows and plows, county fairs and farms. Like many legacy nonprofits, 4-H needed to rebrand to capture the modern organization it had become. Here’s how they did it.

USPS proposal could impact nonprofit premiums
Nonprofits that use premiums for donor acquisition and renewal could face increased costs under an amendment being considered by the United States Postal Service.

Tech Corner - People think their passwords are too awesome for two factor authentication. They’re wrong.
Two-factor authentication vastly improves your security, but hardly anyone uses it: only 10% of Google users enable the feature, for example. Why is that?