GOP Platform Vows to Protect Charitable Deductions

Republicans meeting in Tampa, Fla., adopted a platform that vowed to protect tax incentives for donors, but they have otherwise offered few clues about how a Romney-Ryan White House would affect nonprofits.

The platform made no mention of what would happen to national-service programs, nor does it talk much about other programs that support charities directly except for touting the value of aid that foundations and charities provide overseas and calling for an overhaul of domestic antipoverty assistance.