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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I needed help with business negotiations and software licensing and Gerry jumped in teaching me everything I know about doing business. Gerry quickly did the legal research and came back to explain that my idea, which seemed like it should be illegal, was 100% permitted under an obscure provision of the copyright law!

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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

This guide will teach you what you need to know to get your new organization up and running. Who will make up your main audience of donors, volunteers, corporate partners, foundations, and other supporters that will help keep your nonprofit operating? Look into relevant laws regarding starting a nonprofit in your community.

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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. Empower Young Children through Philanthropy – guest blog post by Vincent Law, CEO and Founder at PhilanthroKids Academy. So in 2006 I founded a charity called Child Psychoecology Foundation (CPF).

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Overcoming the Government-Nonprofit Dependency

ASU Lodestar Center

Changes in Government Regulations & Laws – While some governmental changes can be beneficial to Social Service nonprofit organizations, such as the Edward M Kennedy Serve America Act of 2009 , others can have a negative impact, such as the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA). She currently has a B.S. in Chemistry, B.A.

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Mentoring Staff New to Nonprofit Work

ASU Lodestar Center

Encourage the employee to spend a few days doing information "downloads" from fellow staff members or if it’s a smaller nonprofit, from key volunteer leadership. Teach or model a succinct delivery of the cause’s elevator speech. Click here to read Shelley Gillespie's "Recruiting Volunteers: The Lifeblood of Nonprofits.".

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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. Many times, fundraising and volunteering took on the form of a collaborative effort. In 1969, the Tax Reform Act gave us Section 501(c)3 in the Internal Revenue Service Code, which said that every charity in the U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

Arizona doesnt have 15,000 federally-recognized charities — it now has closer to 12,000. Four of these public charities that lost their exemption yesterday were part of the ASU Lodestar Centers Scope of the Sector report and had revenues of over $1 million in 2005 or 2006. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?