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Kentucky’s Federal Delegation Resources:
Senator Mitch McConnell
Email
Main office: (202) 224-2541
Field office locations & phone numbers
Senator Rand Paul
Email
Main office: (202) 224-4343
Bowling Green field office: (270) 782-8303
Congressman Andy Barr
Email
Main office: (202) 225-4706
Lexington field office: (859) 219-1366
Congressman James Comer
Email
Main office: (202) 225-3115
Field office locations & phone numbers
Congressman Brett Guthrie
Email
Main office: (202) 225-3501
Field office locations & phone numbers
Congressman Thomas Massie
Email
Main office: (202) 225-3465
Field office locations & phone numbers
Congressman Morgan McGarvey
Email
Main office: (202) 225-5401
Louisville field office: (502) 582-5129
Congressman Hal Rogers
Email
Main office: (202) 225-4601
Field office locations & phone numbers
Public-private partnerships for the public good:
Promote and support executive action and/or legislation that strengthens communities through a strong nonprofit sector and workforce, including addressing systemic problems with nonprofit-government contracting and grants at the federal, state, and local levels.
- Advocate for legislation that addresses grants and contracting practices, including advanced payments, timely execution of agreements, prompt payment and interest penalties for late payments, as well as streamlined application and reporting processes.
Nonprofits are facing a workforce shortage crisis. In April 2023, KNN’s partners at the National Council of Nonprofits conducted a nationwide survey to secure the latest, comprehensive information about the nonprofit workforce. When nonprofits cannot hire enough employees to provide vital services, the public suffers. Data from this survey and others show that along with increased demands for services, there are longer waiting lists, reduced services, and sometimes elimination of services. When any of those happen, the ripple effects cannot be ignored: communities lose access to food, shelter, mental health care, and other vital services on which people depend. Click here for the National Council of Nonprofit’s Workforce Shortage Survey Report and click here for the Kentucky Summary of the Survey Report.
- Advocate for the General Assembly to establish a budgetary policy that requires the commonwealth to sufficiently fund their partnerships with the nonprofits the state has chosen to contract with for the provision of statutorily required services, as well intervention and prevention services – ensuring that effective, quality, uninterrupted services exist for the residents of the commonwealth and that nonprofits can maximize the full impact of taxpayer dollars.
- Advocate for spending decisions that promote fiscal stability and growth in the Commonwealth, while also ensuring the work of nonprofits to serve Kentuckians and meet community needs is sustained and protected.
- Advocate for rate increases and/or increased funding for nonprofits contracting with government to provide legally required services on behalf of the Commonwealth starting July 1, 2024.
Tax policy that empowers community solutions through nonprofits:
- Support expanded, enhanced and new tax and other incentives for individuals and businesses, including a universal non-itemizer charitable giving tax deduction, at the federal and state level to encourage individuals to give generously to the work of charitable nonprofits. Actively oppose floors, caps or limits on existing incentives that would harm the sector’s ability to leverage philanthropic support.
- Oppose the imposition of taxes, fees, or payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTS) on tax-exempt nonprofits, as well as oppose requirements to collect and remit sales and use taxes from individuals receiving services from charitable nonprofits.
- Support policies that maintain and, where appropriate, expand nonprofit exemptions from paying or collecting and remitting state and local property, sales, and use taxes.
Nonprofit advocacy rights and civic engagement:
- Preserve the integrity of charitable nonprofits by supporting the tax-law ban on electioneering and partisan political activities and oppose restrictions on the advocacy rights of charitable nonprofits.
- Oppose legislation, policies, and practices that prevent individuals from voting and exercising their civic responsibilities.
Nonprofit independence and ensuring public trust:
Support reasonable and non-burdensome regulations and policies that allow nonprofits to earn and maintain public trust through appropriate transparency. Oppose policies or legislation that impose increased costs, burdens, barriers, limitations, or liabilities on nonprofits – negatively impacting their ability to effectively accomplish their core mission.
- Oppose policies and legislation that do not ensure that personal information about individual donors to 501(c)3 charitable nonprofits remains protected from public disclosure, while also ensuring that government agencies that regulate 501(c)3 charitable nonprofits and other exempt organizations have access to the information they need to protect the public and the integrity of the nonprofit sector by providing oversight of nonprofits.
KY General Assembly Resources:
- Find your District / Find your Legislator
- Find your Senator
- Find your member of the House of Representatives
- Call the Legislative Message Line – 1-800-372-7181
- Legislative Research Commission website provides links to live-feed coverage, committee schedules and more. You can also follow coverage on the Legislature’s YouTube Channel or KET.
- Tips for Visiting with Legislators
State bills we followed in 2025:
