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How To Write A Great Ticket Receipt For Your Nonprofit Fundraising Event

CauseVox

Include language that gets attendees excited for your event. For example, “ Your contribution is tax-deductible to the extent provided by law. Your contribution is tax deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law. Explain what they’ll be receiving from their ticket purchase. Example #2: Ticket Holder Receipt.

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How Much Can Nonprofits Spend on Political Advertising? Here’s What Experts Say

Whole Whale

Here is a summary of what the IRS says about political advertising: The Restriction of Political Campaign Intervention by Section 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Organizations | Internal Revenue Service. Under campaign finance law, any person or entity that makes an independent expenditure (IE) must disclose that IE to the FEC within 24 hours.

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It’s Not Slowing Down! Data Trends For Social Sector Organizations To Track In 2019

Global Giving

Similarly, companies like Amazon are making it easy for anyone to create powerful natural language processing or computer vision models without needing to build their own complex deep learning infrastructure. With the formal launch of the EU’s GDPR law (along with thousands of “we’ve updated our privacy policy!”

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How Do Fundraiser Bonds Protect Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Thousands of individual surety bond types exist, each providing a specific type of financial protection that depends on the bond's purpose and its contractual language. In summary, if you work with a nonprofit organization that has decided to use a professional fundraiser, be sure the individual or company is licensed according to state laws.

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Ideas Wanted to Increase Participation in Elections

Tech Soup

Several states have enacted voter suppression laws. The foundation wants to get a short summary of what you propose to do, what you've done so far, a bit about yourself and your organization, and the outcomes you're working toward. The recent 2014 national election saw record low voter turnout — the worst in 72 years.

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Fascinating Meeting at the Copyright Office

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law. My summary of where the issue is generally: the developing world and people with disabilities are for the treaty, and rich countries and the publishing industry are against the treaty.

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Fearless Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the questions my father-in-law has begin to ask, "What's next?" Here's a summary of the 48 patterns and solutions. The patterns described in this paper are the beginning of a pattern language for introducing new technology into the workplace. I'm edging my way back into blogging sideways. The title intrigued me.

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