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rick cohen | March 7 2013
Hoodwinked? As Nonprofits Focus on Charitable Deduction, Sequestration Cuts Inflict Pain
The nonprofit sector reacted with parochial panic about proposed changes to the charitable deduction, but shouldn’t it have paid more mind to the devastating blow dealt by sequestration budget cuts? Were we tricked? -
Steve Boland | March 6 2013
Initial Goal Reached. Now What? Sustaining Crowdfunding over the Long Term
Many crowdfunding projects are “one and done,” such as a musician’s production of an album. But how can you harness the power of crowdfunding for ongoing nonprofit service delivery?
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The Case against Rainy-Day Framing of Budgets and Taxes
Few things are more loathed by the public than taxes, and our cultural models encourage us to view government as something to be resisted and our tax system as a ...
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Do nonprofits have a right to claim economic losses when disaster hits? In the wake of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and oil spill in 2010, nonprofits suffered losses just like any other businesses in the impacted parts of the Gulf Coast. The new BP oil spill settlement process for making claims of economic losses is important for the region’s nonprofits to access—and for the nation’s nonprofits to understand if and when the next man-made, BP-type calamity hits. 
All politics is local, some famous politician once said, and a lot of philanthropy would be well served by understanding the importance of understanding and connecting to the culture and dynamics of the communities foundations serve. That is one of the messages of Alicia Philipp, the longtime president of The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, reminding national foundations—and all of us—“community foundations are as different as the local communities” they serve. 
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