527 organization

(noun)

A 527 organization is a type of American tax-exempt organization named after "Section 527" of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Technically, almost all political committees, including state, local, and federal candidate committees, traditional political action committees, "Super PACs", and political parties are "527s. "

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Examples of 527 organization in the following topics:

  • Sources of Campaign Funding

    • Federal law restricts how much individuals and organizations may contribute to political campaigns, political parties, and other FEC-regulated organizations.
    • Although bundling had existed in various forms since the enactment of the FECA, it became more structured and organized in the 2000s, spearheaded by the "Bush Pioneers" for George W.
    • Federal law allows for multiple types of Political Action Committees, including connected PACs, nonconnected PACs, leadership PACs and Super PACs. 501(c)(4) organizations are defined by the IRS as "social welfare" organizations.
    • A 527 organization is a type of American tax-exempt organization named after "Section 527" of the U.S.
    • Technically, almost all political committees, including state, local, and federal candidate committees, traditional political action committees, "Super PACs", and political parties are "527s. " However, in common practice the term is usually applied only to such organizations that are not regulated under state or federal campaign finance laws because they do not "expressly advocate" for the election or defeat of a candidate or party.

  • Congressional Campaign Committees

    • They play a critical role in recruiting candidates, raising funds, and organizing races in districts that are expected to yield politically notable or close elections.
    • It supports the election of Republicans to the House through direct financial contributions to candidates and Republican Party organizations; technical and research assistance to Republican candidates and Party organizations; voter registration, education and turnout programs; and other Party-building activities.
    • It is a registered 527 group, and its current slogan is "Building a Lasting Majority."

  • Direct Techniques

    • There are three lobbying laws in the U.S. that require a lobbying entity to be registered, allow nonprofit organizations to lobby without losing their nonprofit status, require lobbying organizations to present quarterly reports, places restrictions on gifts to U.S.
    • The Public Charity Lobbying Law gives nonprofit organizations the opportunity to spend about 5% of their revenue on lobbying without losing their nonprofit status with the Internal Revenue Service.
    • The bill includes provisions that require a quarterly report on lobby spending by organizations, places restrictions on gifts to Congress members, provides for mandatory disclosure of earmarks in expenditure bills, and places restrictions on the revolving door in direct lobbying.
    • In the past, 527 lobbyists were part of the Bush Administration, compared to 358 during the Clinton Administration.

  • Campaign Finance Reform

    • In addition, the bill aimed to curtail ads by non-party organizations by banning the use of corporate or union money to pay for "electioneering communications," a term defined as broadcast advertising that identifies a federal candidate within 30 days of a primary or nominating convention, or 60 days of a general election.
    • This is the primary difference between clean money public financing systems and the presidential campaign system, which many have called "broken" because it provides no extra funds when candidates are attacked by 527s or other independent expenditure groups.

  • Individualism

  • The Act of Organizing: Constitutive Decisions

    • Variation three, $O \rightarrow X+Y$ , refers to the act of organizing things in a certain way.
    • By organizing in particular ways, we create important parts of the circumstances within which future actions of all types take place.
    • The act of organizing is thus a super wholesale approach to decision and action.
    • The American Constitutional Convention of 1787 was one of history's most dramatic examples of acting to organize.
    • Actually, decisions about how to organize (and reorganize) are constantly going on at all levels of society, and in all kinds of contexts.

  • Interest Groups

    • These diverse organizations include corporations, charitable organizations, civil rights groups, neighborhood associations, professional associations, and trade associations.
    • SIG members may communicate, meet, and organize conferences.
    • Governments often define and regulate organized group lobbying that has become influential.
    • Governments often define and regulate organized group lobbying.
    • Anti-defamation organizations issue responses or criticisms to real or supposed slights of any sort by an individual or group against a specific segment of the population which the organization exists to represent.

  • The Function of Interest Groups

    • An advocacy group is a group or an organization that tries to influence the government but does not hold power in the government.
    • Groups representing broad interests of a group may be formed with the purpose of benefiting the group over an expended period of time and in many ways; examples include Consumer organizations, Professional associations, Trade associations and Trade unions.
    • An advocacy group is a group or an organization that tries to influence the government but does not hold power in the government .
    • Anti-defamation organizations issue responses or criticisms to real or supposed slights of any sort by an individual or group against a specific segment of the population that the organization exists to represent.
    • They may also index personalities, organizations, products and activities in databases to provide coverage and rating of the value or viability of such entities to target demographics.

  • Labor Interest Groups

    • Labor interest groups advocate for the economic interests of workers and trade organizations.
    • There are a wide variety of types of economic interest groups, including labor groups which advocate on behalf of individual workers and trade organizations.
    • In addition to representing their members, unions also often organize opportunities for direct citizen participation , along with public education and lobbying.
    • This union also works as an agenda building organization, bringing attention to the challenges of freelance workers including the high tax burden for independent workers.
    • Explain the decline of labor interest groups and new kinds of organization

  • Leadership

    • Interest groups often rely on leaders to organize their fundraising and make their advocacy efforts successful.
    • Interest groups with organized media campaigns may be led by political strategists.
    • Additionally, the strategist determines where advertisements will be placed, where grassroots organizing efforts will be focused, and how fundraising will be structured.
    • Interest groups may be broader than one formal organization, in which case advocacy may form a social movement.
    • For example, the Civil Rights Movement was a diffuse and widespread effort toward social change, involving many formal organizations and informal groups.