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Charity Gets Personal…

Check out this inspiring article from MSNBC.com… Charity Gets Personal Amid Economic Hardship ‘Tis the season of giving!

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Answers to Reader Questions (Dec ’08)

Answers to Reader Questions (Dec ’08)

At the end of most newsletters, we put out the call for “topic requests”.  We wanted to get to some reader questions before the year ended. We will try to answer questions like these, that don’t require a whole article, from time to time. If you have article topics that you would like us to cover, email [...]

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End of Year Reporting (IRS Form 990)

A little less than a month from now (December 31) marks the end of most organizations’ fiscal year. Have you been preparing for your IRS annual reporting requirement?  Do you at least know where your records are?  Or who has them? (If the answers to the last two questions have you concerned, you might want to see our [...]

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How to Winterize Your Nonprofit

The year is coming to an end. Thanksgiving is just around the corner. Christmas is close enough that you can smell it. If your nonprofit’s fiscal year is January through December, then your accounting year is almost over as well. Are you preparing to end the year and winterize your nonprofit? Here’s some questions to ponder as [...]

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Pastors to Defy Ban on Political Endorsement

Mark your calendars!  Sunday, September 28, 2008 has been declared “Pulpit Freedom Sunday”.  Sponsored by the Alliance Defense Fund, the Pulpit Initiative is a bold, stick-in-the-eye movement encouraging pastors to defy the ban on political endorsements by churches. “For so long, there has been this cloud of intimidation over the church,” ADF attorney Erik Stanley [...]

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Political Campaign Activity by Charities

As the upcoming US Presidential election gets closer, information on the IRS’s views on 501(c)(3) organizations and political activity seemed appropriate for this newsletter. The Internal Revenue Service announced its Political Activities Compliance Initiative (PACI) once again will be in effect for the 2008 election season. The PACI program seeks to educate section 501(c)(3) organizations [...]

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