An important announcement from one of our valued business partners, Aplos Software: Aplos Software, a company that specializes in online, nonprofit accounting, announced today that it will host a complementary year-end closing webinar for nonprofits and churches on Tuesday, December 15th at…
The IRS currently requires donors to a 501(c)(3) to have a receipt from the charity for any gift above $250 in order for that gift to be tax deductible. According to a post in Bloomberg BNA, the IRS is considering…
It looks like Lois Lerner, the scandal-scarred former head of the IRS Tax Exemption Unit, can finally relax and enjoy her forced retirement. Last week, the Obama Justice Department announced that they were declining to prosecute her for misusing her…
So, you want new donors? You want to make sure that you keep getting funds from the donors you currently have? What are you doing to make sure that both of these things are happening? If you lack a strategy and…
Earlier this year we wrote about Charity Navigator, one of the top nonprofit evaluators in the country, parting ways with their CEO Ken Berger who had led the organization for nearly seven years. Charity Navigator has now chosen Berger’s replacement. Michael Thatcher, a Microsoft…
This week, in the latest twist in the IRS targeting scandal, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan threatened to hold the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department attorneys in contempt of court after the IRS failed to…
Judicial Watch, a conservative advocacy group, released new documents last week indicating that the IRS gave the FBI 21 computer disks, which contained over a million pages of confidential tax returns of over 113,000 nonprofit social welfare groups (nearly every…
Nonprofits and social enterprise organizations rely immensely on their board of trustees. These individuals collectively can help propel a charity forward or become a roadblock to success. There are two areas where leaders should ensure that they are observing good board governance and practice, and they relate to the board chair and the nominating committee.
An Internal Revenue Service subcommittee put forth a recommendation to require all tax-exempt organizations to file their annual tax forms electronically. During its annual public meeting, the subcommittee, IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (ACT), recommended the…
The IRS has been ordered to answer questions on the status of certain emails of former exempt director Lois Lerner. The federal judge has ordered the agency to answer questions in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed…