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Commonwealth Foundation Questions PennFuture Tactics – PennFuture Responds The Commonwealth Foundation recently released a report on the activities of PennFuture, questioning that organization’s advocacy practices. The report says PennFuture “claimed to the IRS they spent no money on grassroots lobbying on four of its last five tax returns," and claims that PennFuture has received over $1 million in taxpayer-funded grants which it then improperly used to lobby public officials for additional taxpayer money. PennFuture’s attorney has asked the Commonwealth Foundation for immediate corrective action, outlining specific factual errors in the Commonwealth Foundation‟s “Report.” The letter asks that the Commonwealth Foundation remove all of the erroneous material from the online versions of the “report” and press releases, destroy all hard copies, insert information in the revised publications indicating it contained errors which were removed and the date of the removal, and distribution of the corrected documents to all who received the original documents. The report, “PennFuture's Lobbying: Hypocritical, Unethical, and Possibly Illegal” is available here. A copy of PennFuture’s response letter is available online at http://www.pennfuture.org/userfiles10/LtrToBrouiletteChesser7-14-10.pdf
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