Spent a wonderful week with family (including my two nieces pictured above) in beautiful Vancouver. Have a listen to Vancouver-based Marianas Trench’s Celebrity Status while perusing our curated nonprofit tweets of the week:

• Emily Chan: Charities Seek Their Own Ice Bucket @WSJ http://on.wsj.com/1pXPCFL | >1000% increase in donations to @alsassociation http://bit.ly/1AuN9Y3
• La Piana Consulting: How-tos, case studies & more on nonprofit collaboration & strategic restructuring, here http://ow.ly/ArDST & here http://ow.ly/ArEfx
• C. Garber Siegrist: Interesting resource: Research, Reports, and Data on the Nonprofit Sector http://ow.ly/AxtWI via @NatlCouncilNPs
• Gene: California charities – expect more enforcement of registration & reporting requirements – AB 2077 status http://www.legtrack.com/bill.html?bill=201320140AB2077
• Council of Nonprofits: Let’s bust some myths re: compensation in the #nonprofit world http://buff.ly/1pHPJWD Yes, you can pay #nonprofit employees a bonus [Ed. But be careful – if the possibility of bonuses has not been agreed upon as consideration of employment, payment of a bonus may be a possible violation of charitable trust laws.]
• Gene: Privacy and Data Security for Your Nonprofit? Venable
• Law for Change: You asked: Is $ raised through a #fiscalsponsor by an LLC for charitable purposes taxed as income? Answer: http://law4ch.org/1tmdi85 #Nonprofit
• Stanford Social Innovation Review: A new paradigm playing out across the world isn’t about profit or #nonprofit, but about open or closed: http://ow.ly/AvmTo #socent
• Social Enterprise Alliance/SF Bay Area: We feel so trendy: Companies with Benefits  New Yorker
• The Atlantic: The wonderful, weird economy of Burning Man http://theatln.tc/YoffGx