Nonprofit Employers Scramble to Comply With Health-Care Measure

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New Era Colorado foundation

Steve Fenberg says the Affordable Care Act has already yielded a tax credit to help cover his staff at New Era Colorado Foundation.

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Steve Fenberg says the Affordable Care Act has already yielded a tax credit to help cover his staff at New Era Colorado Foundation.

At New Era Colorado Foundation, an advocacy group that seeks to get people in their 20s and 30s involved in public-policy issues, the nation’s new health-care law has already been a financial bonus, even though it doesn’t take effect fully until 2014.

The nonprofit often hires people who were recent interns to become full-time workers, and they tend to stay on their parents’ plans, since the law allows them to do so until they turn 26. And a tax credit available to