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New Tax Law: Understanding the Impacts on Charities and Giving

ASU Lodestar Center

The tax law and jobs act (TCJA) presents many changes for nonprofits to consider in 2018. The following changes to the law are some of the most critical when considering the effect they may have on charitable giving to nonprofits. Far fewer will be subject to the federal estate tax with the law expanding exemption to many more.

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Digital Privacy Compliance for Nonprofits: The Big 3 Laws

Achieve

From fundraising legal requirements to digital privacy laws, it’s important to understand the rules to which your nonprofit can be held accountable. Regulation #1: The CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into US law in 2003, and it protects consumers from receiving emails that they never agreed to receive.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, accepting gifts of stock by opening a brokerage account, accepting Venmo donations, accepting cryptocurrency , and accepting donations from Alexa (Amazon devices). For example, if the most popular page on your website is your “About” page, does that page have adequate calls to action to donate? Prospecting.

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Do You Inform Donors Of These 2 Giving Opportunities?

Bloomerang

Today I want to look at two ways to promote philanthropy that are too-little used by the lion’s share of charities: Current tax incentives. It’s the bare minimum to tack “this gift is tax deductible to the extent provided by law” onto the end of your appeal or bottom of your donation landing page. IRA distributions.

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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

There I was, being virtually groped in a snowy fortress with my brother-in-law and husband watching. That said, there are NFTs that are being sold to raise money for charity with many, many more to come. A good example is the IKEA App which allows users to see IKEA furniture virtually in their home before purchasing.

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Free Legal Services for Charities Anyone?

Tech Soup

I have no idea how it got started, but one of the most available and effective forms of corporate social responsibility are pro bono legal services for charities. If your charity needs legal services it’s actually reasonably easy to find free pro bono help. Many law firms do much more pro bono work than 50 hours.

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Fundraising for your nonprofit in the start-up phase

Candid

Reprinted from NEO Law Group. First, regardless of whether or not you’ve received tax-exempt status from the IRS, before you start fundraising, you should check with your state’s attorney general (or equivalent charity regulator) office for state-mandated fundraising registration and reporting requirements.

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