Here are some of my favorite posts of the week in the areas of nonprofit organizations, corporate governance, philanthropy, and social enterprises:
- Philanthropy: Charitable-Deduction Limit Would Hurt Poor, Say Nonprofit Leaders
- Independent Sector: Slashing incentives to give will impact nonprofits. Tell Congress NOT to limit the charitable deduction http://ow.ly/fjFuh
- Matthew Bishop: Should charitable giving get a tax deduction? My take for The Economist
- Nonprofit Quarterly: Nonprofit Accountability and Ethics: Rotting from the Head Down
- NPTech Blogs: Fraud Happens: A Practical Guide for Nonprofits to Reduce Their Risk (via NTEN)
- Nonprofit Law News: Maximizing a Nonprofit's Insurance Coverage by Venable LLP
- Rick Moyers: 76,000 foundations, only 26% have websites, only 730 share information electronically with the Foundation Center – if you want partners … open up your data [Ed. compilation]
- Emily: Tip from Jake Porway – Great resource for beginners to data visualization tools http://selection.datavisualization.ch/
- Alice Korngold: For Business Executives: Serving on Nonprofit Boards Is Good for Democracy HuffPostImpact
- Gene: California nonprofits: you can't have nonvoting board members – Public Counsel | good rule no matter what state you're in
- Reach Global: The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur – NY Times
- R. Todd Johnson: Omidyar's new white paper on Impact Investing. A must read . BusinessforGood
- Gene: Benefit Corporations ‘Need More Oversight’ | California has 60 benefit corps + 15 flexible purpose corps
- Cynthia Rowland: CPDB Tax Alert: Changes Affecting Property Tax Exemptions in 2013
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