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Care2 Helps in Law of the Sea Win - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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This is a huge step forward for ocean conservation and international law. July 6, 2009 | Anwalt Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Care2 was honored to play a part in this effort, in partnership with CGI, by mobilizing thousands of Care2s civically active members to send emails to their senators in support of the treaty. Nice blog.

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Happy Birthday! The Charitable Deduction Turns 100

ASU Lodestar Center

The resolution opens with the observation that the deduction “is one of the oldest preferences in tax law.” The federal government confers a power on particular organizations that they believe are helpful to civic engagement, service delivery, or fostering of common values. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. think tank.

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Open Source CRMs – people like them?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Taken at face value, CitySoft certainly doesn’t violate the letter of the law, since you can get the source code if you buy their product, but their source code is unavailable otherwise, it sort of violates the spirit of open source.) Be Helpful. 201 out of 665 users used these 6 open source tools.

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Facebook Ad Platform

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Of course, there are huge privacy issues, here, and one law professor thinks the ads are illegal. Be Helpful. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. What does this mean for nonprofits? Well, it depends.

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A Jargon-Free Guide to Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies (L3C)

NonProfit Hub

That’s why we’re here: to help you navigate this confusing sector simply saturated with content, ideas and innovation. In this blend, an L3C is a private organization that does earn profits, but only so that it can conduct business to help a certain cause. So you want to start an organization that benefits a specific cause.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The mission of the Lavelle Fund is to support programs that help people with visual impairments, including blindness, lead independent, productive lives. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. In 2013, with the most recent (and fourth!)

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Research Friday: Lessons in board governance

ASU Lodestar Center

The ASU Lodestar Center can help! Below are a few examples to help you get started. The IRS website reads: “Good governance is important to increase the likelihood that organizations will comply with the tax law, protect their charitable assets, and thereby, best serve their charitable beneficiaries.”. Board job descriptions.