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Ask a Nonprofit Specialist: Legal protection of control within public charities

ASU Lodestar Center

Question: I am the interested in starting a public charity, and I want to legally protect my influence and ability to control the affairs of the organization. Long answer: Public charities are an IRS designation of organizations that are organized and operated for exempt purposes. In a charity, the public interest served is paramount.

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What factors contribute to successful nonprofit executive compensation strategies?

ASU Lodestar Center

Historically, executives at America’s nonprofits have felt pressure to take a nonprofit discount in pay in exchange for the psychic benefit of charity work. Fostering a culture within the organization of trust and collaboration creates the type of place people want to work. But is virtue truly its own reward? Conclusion.

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Unions and their role in the social sector

Candid

Unions are usually structured around large national/international organizations that contain smaller local organizations (also known as “locals”). Keeping these criticisms in mind, the next blog post will discuss how unions collaborate with other social sector forces. Unions are both local and national.

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The Collaboration Prize: $250,000 for Nonprofits That Collaborate, Not Compete

Have Fun - Do Good

Charity Governance reports that, "For the period from October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007 (fiscal year 2007), the IRS received 85,771 applications for recognition of Section 501(c)(3) status." Why don't more nonprofits collaborate? Logo from The Collaboration Prize web site. nonprofit collaboration award philanthropy

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How Can Nonprofits Build High-Performing Teams?

ASU Lodestar Center

Budgetary constraints shaped by charity watchdog organizations also impose limits that encourage decreasing administrative costs in order to increase program costs, which may impact nonprofits from devoting funds to human resources management. Build a Supportive Structure. Measure Performance.

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Government Access: Privacy Meets Resources

VisionLink

As one example: an un-documented person may not seek assistance from a charity, if that charity is sharing information with governmental agencies. Because there is no one way to solve this dilemma, VisionLink''s approach is provide a special government sharing permission structure within our software.

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Funding Faith: Raising Money For Religion-Based Organizations

Bloomerang

Also, Doucet Campbell said that, depending on the structure of the organization, there’s sometimes a misguided belief that a built-in pipeline of giving is automatic. . Like other older nonprofits and charities, the diocese does have some endowments, but they are designated for very specific purposes.” .

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