How to Contact
- Your U.S. Representatives
- Your U.S. Senators
- Find your Members of Congress using your address. This independent website identifies which Senators and Representatives represent you, and provides links to their contact information, twitter addresses, and more.
Suggested Talking Points
- It appears likely that any agreement made by the Supercommittee of Congress will include cuts and reforms that will increase demand for nonprofit services, and we are concerned that any agreement could also adversely affect the ability of nonprofits to provide those services.
- Congress cannot continue to cut public programs and expect nonprofits to fill in the gaps and pick up the slack.
- My organization and other nonprofits rely on the current charitable giving incentive to help pay for delivering existing services, let alone the new demand for more services.
- We ask that you make a clear statement in support of the charitable giving incentive and oppose any proposal to reduce or cap the tax value of charitable contributions.
Sample Email Message
My organization is honored to be among the nearly 4,000 nonprofits to sign onto the nonprofit community letter in support of the charitable giving incentive.
It appears likely that any agreement made by the Supercommittee of Congress will include cuts and reforms that will increase demand for nonprofit services. We are concerned that the agreement could also adversely affect the ability of nonprofits to provide those services. Congress cannot continue to cut public programs and expect nonprofits to fill in their gaps and pick up their slack. My organization and other nonprofits rely on the current charitable giving incentive to help pay for delivering existing services, so reducing the incentive will reduce the amount of services we can deliver.
We ask that you make a clear statement in support of the charitable giving incentive and oppose any proposal to reduce or cap the tax value of charitable contributions.
Sample Tweet
#Supercommittee, my #nonprofit signed the letter bit.ly/tBoxVx opposing changes to the #charitable deduction that would harm our communities
NOTE: Please also replace #Supercommittee with your Representative's and Senators' Twitter handles to send this message directly to them.
