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Giving , Where does your money go

Few events move the heart and pocketbook like a natural disaster. After the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, millions of dollars began flowing to two local nonprofits on the front lines of disaster relief: Mercy Corps and Medical Teams International. But what exactly happens to the donations? How much goes to relief, how much to [...]

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Australia Needs a Not for Profit Capital Market – Report

A new report calls for the establishment of a Not for Profit capital market in Australia, saying it is the key to addressing financial exclusion in the Not for Profit sector. The ‘Finance and the Australian not-for-profit sector – Examining the potential for a not-for-profit capital market in Australia’ report, undertaken by Foresters Community Finance [...]

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IRS Resources for Tax Exempt Organizations

The Internal Revenue Service or IRS has many excellent resources available for tax exempt and other nonprofit organizations. Every nonprofit should take advantage of these resources to ensure that they are complying with the law and preserving their non profit status.The IRS actually has a wide variety of resources available for nonprofit organizations. These resources [...]

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Christie Moves To Limit The Salaries of Non-Profit CEOs

With the fight over state teachers salaries and benefits getting bloodier, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is putting his budget cutting focus on non-profit social agencies doing business with the state. Most specifically, the amount the state is willing to pay for CEO salaries and employee benefits. According to a Department of Human Service draft [...]

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April 7, 2010 Is Deadline For Eligible Private Non-Profits To Apply For Disaster Assistance

Private Non-Profit ( PNP ) organizations that provide government-like services such as education, communications services, fire protection and medical care and were affected by the severe winter weather, flooding, mudflows and debris flows that occurred between Jan. 17 and Feb. 6 have until April 7 to apply for supplemental disaster grants from the Federal Emergency [...]

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Record Multi-Million Dollar Fine Vs. Telefundraisers

The operators of a New Jersey-based telemarketing organization will pay a record $18.8 million and leave the charitable donation business to settle charges that they violated a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) order by allegedly misleading consumers to believe that they were donating directly to legitimate charities serving police, firefighters, and veterans, when in fact only [...]

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Congress: Get health reform bill passed

Within the next few weeks we will learn whether or not this country can ever get serious about health care reform. The passage of the bill before Congress will for the first time in the history of this country indicate that we as a nation no longer consider health care as a commodity to be [...]

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National Review: Health Care, Not A Profit Problem

For an administration that says it’s committed to using empirical evidence to determine “what works,” and a president who says he’s “not an ideologue,” Obamacare’s marketing sure does rely on a healthy dose of fiction. The central inference behind the supposed need to pass Obamacare is that insurance companies are shamelessly gouging us and disproportionately [...]

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NASA Opens High Frontier to Education and Not-For-Profit Groups

NASA is announcing a new initiative to launch small cube-shaped satellites for education and not-for-profit organizations. CubeSats are a class of research spacecraft called picosatellites, having a size of approximately four inches, a volume of about one quart, and weighing no more than 2.2 pounds. This is NASA’s first open announcement to create an agency-prioritized [...]

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Patrick Corvington Confirmed By Senate To Run CNCS

Five months after being nominated by President Barack Obama, Patrick Corvington was confirmed by the Senate to be the next chief executive officer for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Senate consent was unanimous and Corvington is expected to officially begin later this month after the president signs his confirmation. Corvington will be [...]

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