National Coalition Against Censorship

National Coalition Against Censorship
Formation1974; 50 years ago (1974)
13-3197949
Legal status501(c)(3)
Location
  • New York
Revenue (2017)
$1,190,255[1]
Websitehttps://ncac.org/

The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), founded in 1974, is an alliance of 50 American non-profit organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups. NCAC is a New York–based organization with official 501(c)(3) status in the United States.[2][3] The coalition seeks to defend freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression from censorship and threats of censorship through education and outreach, and direct advocacy. NCAC assists individuals, community groups, and institutions with strategies and resources for resisting censorship and creating a climate hospitable to free expression. It also encourages the publicizing of cases of censorship and has a place to report instances of censorship on the organization's website.[4][5] Their annual fundraiser is called the Free Speech Defender Awards. The main goal of the organization is to defend the first amendment, freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression. NCAC's website contains reports of censorship incidents, analysis and discussion of free expression issues, a database of legal cases in the arts, an archive of NCAC's quarterly newsletter, a blog, and Censorpedia, a crowdsourced wiki. In fiscal year 2017, the organization earned a 95.93% rating by Charity Navigator, an organization that assesses the efficacy of nonprofits.[3]

  1. ^ ProPublica, Mike Tigas, Sisi Wei, Ken Schwencke, Brandon Roberts, Alec Glassford (9 May 2013). "National Coalition Against Censorship Inc - Nonprofit Explorer". ProPublica. Retrieved 2020-06-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "National Coalition Against Censorship". mtsu.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  3. ^ a b "Charity Navigator - Rating for National Coalition Against Censorship". Charity Navigator. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  4. ^ "National Coalition Against Censorship / Report Censorship in your Institution". Art Profs America. 2017-03-11. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  5. ^ "Report Censorship". ncac.org. Retrieved 2018-11-27.