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

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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. Other examples have included farmers’ markets, newspapers, law groups and art centers. This is one of the requirements for L3Cs the law puts forth for this business model. Can I start an L3C?

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Not Business As Usual!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As people of good will tackle these challenges of the status quo, we’re gathered here in New Orleans to talk about a new and exciting movement that offers a chance to blend some of the best of those three different sectors and to create innovative solutions to the problems at hand. Right now it seems like we can’t afford government as usual.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

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Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). Historically, federal and state laws have viewed nonprofit and for-profit entities as mutually exclusive organizations whose work rarely, if ever, overlapped.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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Honorata's days blended into one another until the moment another marauding band stormed the camp. They sat side by side to discuss the role of women in rebuilding society, women's rights and the new Constitution, and family law. She was captured and tortured by the armed militias. In the confusion, she escaped.

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Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange Talks about the Global Citizen Center

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They build a building, and then they just fill it up, and there's an architecture firm, and a law firm, and whatever. What I am trying to create is a real estate model that captures that value, because if you look at the way most of these downtown buildings are, it's really stupid the way it is organized.

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