“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.”
—Mary Anne Radmacher
National Nonprofit Day celebrates the hard work that nonprofit organizations undertake to lift the hardships of their communities, whether locally or across the globe. Founded by Sherita J. Herring, a respected author and speaker, it also acknowledges the signing of the Tariff Act on August 17, 1894. The Act provides exclusions from the federal income tax levied on corporations for charitable organizations and charities.1 Since then, National Nonprofit Day is commemorated every August 17th.