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Austin DeMarco | April 20 2012
Giving as Receiving: The True Rewards of Charity
For National Volunteer Week, Austin DeMarco reminds us of the many benefits of giving, be it one’s time or one’s money—an act that rekindles our sense of purpose and meaning in life.
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John Hoffman | April 18 2012
To Address the Digital Divide, We Must Go Beyond the Headlines
John Hoffman is immersed in the fight against the digital divide. He argues that a new Pew Internet and American Life Project study provides an incomplete analysis of the issue.
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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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Yijiao Zhuang was initially terrified to participate in a direct request for money—from strangers, no less—but she came away from the experience with lessons in kindness, humbleness and the true meaning of the “ask.”
Nonprofits working with people who are deeply affected by public policy often should have an advocacy agenda on core issues like state budget priorities, taxes, and other controversial items. But when your board is politically diverse—or when individual board members are worried about alienating their contacts—it can erect barriers to your board’s ability to take a stand. What to do?
Saras Chung worked hard to help get the social enterprise fashion project Nest on its feet, and found human capital and agility key to success. 
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Reporting for Remapping Debate, Kevin C. Brown paints a pretty devastating picture of what he characterizes as the “two-tier morality” of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). -
A number of new election and voting policies and plans in Florida this year, purportedly aimed at blocking fraud, have some nonprofit voting rights advocates crying foul.
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National Public Radio experiences decline in corporate support as L.A. Times gets Ford Grant.
