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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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What Nonprofits Can Learn from New Orleans

ASU Lodestar Center

I’d never experienced New Orleans, Louisiana (or NOLA as the locals call it), but I thought I knew it well. What struck me was not just the lack of any smidgen of self-pity, but how this willingness to refrain from blame, to move past the bad stuff, created a universal sense of contentment. Which made for a happier life. The toughest.