The Internal Revenue Service plans to release instructions on filling out the revamped informational tax return for charities, reports Government and Politics Watch, a Chronicle online column.

Plus:

• Donors who want to provide aid in areas of the world threatened by terrorism should consider forming partnerships with the U.S. government to distribute their money, a top federal official said last week.

• Democrats have been urged to endorse several proposals to benefit nonprofit groups at their convention in Denver next week.