By Adriel Bettelheim
The season of giving is turning into an anxious time for charities and nonprofits worried that efforts to avert the fiscal cliff may limit the tax incentives for making charitable donations.
A group called the Charitable Giving Coalition is flying more than 200 executives from nonprofits to Washington on Dec. 4 and 5 as part of a lobbying blitz to preserve the federal tax deduction for charitable contributions, a target of deficit reduction efforts since President Barack Obama proposed capping it in 2009 to help pay for the health care overhaul.