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Interview with Bryan Stevenson: On Juneteenth and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. Bryan Stevenson (BS): It’s important that we have a new consciousness about the problems created by our history. We tell a wonderful story about our evolution.

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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. Before you start a new organization, it’s worth it to fully think through the problem you’re hoping to address and whether a nonprofit is the right way to solve the issue. Is it one distinct problem or multiple issues? Legal services.

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Important Considerations for Nonprofits When Applying for IRC 501(c)(3) Status: Part 1

Tech Soup

I retired from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) at the end of 2011 after 25 years of service. Know the Law. Find the section here: Cornell University Law School. This Code section doesn’t provide all that’s needed to know about the relevant tax law, but it provides the basic knowledge.

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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2016 half a billion women still cannot read, 62 million girls are denied the right to education and 155 countries still have laws that differentiate between men and women. 2016 is the year that real money and reforms must start to right these wrongs.

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Why Kansas City Has a Shot at Bridging the Digital Divide

Tech Soup

It addresses the thorny problem of bringing the 25 percent or so of people in the city who are still not participating in the information age to inclusion. The service provides TV broadband and Internet that is comparable with cable offers. I say thorny because despite the nearly $300 million in stimulus funding awarded by the U.S.

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

NonProfit Hub

When problems emerge, you have to think of new and creative ways to deal with them. During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. 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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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. Teams of Harvard Law students enrolled in Evidence will serve as the lawyers.