Chris Bifsha - Public assistance (S.609 )

Background: Nonprofit Capacity Building Act of 2009 - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish a Nonprofit Capacity Building program requiring the Corporation for National and Community Service to award matching grants to intermediary nonprofit organizations for the delivery of organizational development assistance to small and midsized nonprofit organizations, especially those facing resource hardship challenges.Directs the Corporation, to the extent practicable, to award such a grant to an intermediary nonprofit organization in each state.Requires grantees to raise their share of the costs of providing such assistance through contributions from third parties, except where the grantee is a private foundation or specified charity.

Goal of Action: To help take the problem of money from newly found charities.

Specifics/Means of the goal: The government would help new charities that need money to start and give them grants and funds to help them get going. Also the money would not be granted to the privet charities.

Type of Power: Congress is using implied power in this case because these evolves the country's money and it needs to be regulated so that we are not wasting money.

Analysis: yes. congress goes have the implied power to make the country's budget and things like this bill are taken into account when it is all put together. But the most important step is that the president must sign the budget plan. if not then it goes back to committee to be reviewed and revised.