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The Unsung Hero in Fundraising Campaigns Isn’t Raffles—It’s Sweepstakes!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

But , raffle laws vary from state to state—in many states (13, the last time we checked), online raffles are flat-out illegal. Furthermore, raffles of any kind are 100% against the law in Alabama, Hawaii, and Utah. One misconception we hear regularly relates to Sweepstakes’ free Alternate Method of Entry.

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Why Kansas City Has a Shot at Bridging the Digital Divide

Tech Soup

Google plans to roll it out in Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah as well. Founding donors to the fund include Google Fiber , the Illig Family Foundation, Sprint , Global Prairie , Polsinelli Law , and J.E. One guy energetically pitched me on a new method for cattle production. The Community Driven Fund. Dunn Construction.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Mountaintop Mining – Seeing is rejecting.

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Mining is in the news a lot recently because of the terrible tragedy in Utah where six miners are presumed dead in a mine collapse and at least three more have been killed trying to rescue them. MTM SPECIFICALLY ALLOWED UNDER SMCRA MTM is a mining method that the United States government is largely responsible for creating.

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SPAM and the not-for-profit

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

TechSoup this week is featuring a 2003 article by Lynn Mitchell about the law and its effect on non-profits. Since the article was written before the law took effect and disagreed in one respect with what I thought was the case I did a bit of further research. Many people have been very critical of the law for this reason.

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