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When to Call It Quits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As the Nicaraguan government tightened its grip on authoritarian rule, it was threatened by civil society organizations who possess the power to hold them accountable, receiving funds they do not control and investing those funds in services that preserve human rights, protect democracy, and empower individuals.

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Best Practices when Accounting for Grants

The Charity CFO

The IRS has strict regulations on how to handle grants and charitable contributions, so it is essential that you understand the best practices when accounting for them. You really don’t want to be red-flagged by the government because of incomplete, unorganized, or inaccurately recorded grant information. What is a Grant?

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Corporate Partnerships & The Law: Registration & Reporting Requirements ??

Selfish Giving

This guidance, published in March 2001, is called The Charleston Principles: Guidelines on Charitable Solicitations Using the Internet (the “Principles”). The Principles state that they apply to charitable sales promotions as well as solicitations for charitable contributions. [2]

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Dr. James explains why sustainable giving starts by answering, “Do we have a shared future?”

iMarketSmart

24] Among those with estates over $5 million, 78% of charitable dollars go to permanent foundations.[25] 25] Over a quarter of all charitable bequests to education go to just 35 of the wealthiest, oldest, and most stable private schools.[26] Research in Government and Nonprofit Accounting, 12 , 35-56. [20] Also see p.

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Using Impact Science to Solve Hunger More Effectively

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As a result, 37 percent of adults received some type of food assistance from a nonprofit organization or a government service to help feed their household in the last year, according to a 2021 study by Impact Genome and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. So we aren’t spending enough.

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Corporate Partnerships & The Law: Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT)

Selfish Giving

This distinction between acknowledgments and advertising arises from federal tax rules governing “qualified sponsorship payments.” Advertising One of the exceptions to UBIT involves the provision of “acknowledgments” to corporate sponsors or partners, as distinguishable from “advertising.”[10] 1.513–4(f). [13] 1.513–4(f).

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For the past three decades, I have guided museums, nonprofit arts organizations, and higher education institutions in planning, programming, fundraising for, and promoting new or renovated cultural facilities that fulfill mission imperatives. Charitable contributions driven by ethical egoism may provide the most benefit to the donor, however.

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