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Autopsy on YWCA Shutdown Offers Several Lessons
Major institutions like YWCAs rarely go out of business, much less as precipitously as the shutdown of the YWCA of the Greater Triangle area. What can we learn from its closure?
For Social Media, Timing Is Key
Timing is an essential aspect of social media strategizing. The betaworks company Bitly has released some noteworthy metrics on social media timing that may be helpful to your nonprofit.
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Does My Nonprofit Need to Pay Tax? Understanding Unrelated Business Income Tax
While nonprofits are, generally, tax-exempt, they must pay income tax when operating outside the scope of their exempt purposes. But determining what are an organization’s exempt purposes is not always as clear as one might think, and distinguishing between related ...
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Occupy movement demonstrators are gathering in Chicago to stage protests at this weekend’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit. 
A federal court has ruled 501(c)(4)s engaged in “electioneering communications” must reveal their donors, but super PACs may have another loophole to avoid transparency. 
Police brought the Occupy Abai encampment in Moscow’s Chistiye Prudi area to a quick close, but can Russian authorities put the genie of civil society back into its bottle? 
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has released a plan to cap nonprofit executive compensation and administration costs, though the proposal allows some flexibility. WRITE FOR NPQ
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NEWSWIRE SPECIAL REPORT
A new study performed by the Scripps Howard News Service finds 41 percent of U.S. nonprofits with annual budgets of $1 million or more report spending nothing on fundraising.
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National Public Radio experiences decline in corporate support as L.A. Times gets Ford Grant. -
The Caterpillar Foundation has given a $3 million grant to get the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to make Peoria, Ill. its newest office addressing community development.
