To close the first week of the year, here are some of my favorite posts of the week in the areas of nonprofit organizations, corporate governance, philanthropy, and social enterprises: mattbish: "The Year of Fighting Over What Works". @shepleygreen and I make our Philanthrocapitalism predictions for 2011: http://bit.ly/fTIzXI IndSector:...
IRS Exempt Organizations FY2011 Workplan
The IRS Exempt Organizations Division 2011 for its Fiscal Year 2011 was released last month. The new year is a good time to review the Division’s priorities and how they might impact your organizations. The Division will support five overarching IRS focus areas: Impact of Recent Legislation. The Affordable...
5 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofits
Following up on our suggested 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Your Board, here are 5 (admittedly broad) resolutions for your organizations: We will review our mission statements and set of core values to ensure they are consistent with our activities and within all our publications. We will examine our activities,...
Tweets of the Week – December 31, 2010
2010: What an eventful year. In addition to Emily's discussion of the Top 10 Events of 2010 affecting the nonprofit sector, there were other great year-end reviews and prognostications for 2011. Here are some of my favorite posts of the week in the areas of nonprofit organizations, corporate governance,...
Top 10 Events of 2010
Last year we wrote on the Top 10 Events of the Decade. This year we decided to do another list on the Top 10 events of 2010 affecting the nonprofit sector (listed in chronological order). We welcome your additions in the comments. Have a happy holiday season! Haitian earthquake...
IRS Exempt Organizations Division FY2010 Annual Report
The IRS Exempt Organizations Division Annual Report for its Fiscal Year 2010 was released earlier this month. The EO Division has three principal offices: EO Examinations (Examinations) is responsible for audits and (less intensive) compliance checks of tax-exempt organizations. EO Rulings and Agreements (R&A) is responsible for reviewing applications...
Tweets of the Week – December 24, 2010
On this Christmas eve, here are some of my favorite posts of the week in the areas of nonprofit law, corporate governance, philanthropy, and social enterprises: bill_easterly: Once upon a Professor: the Christmas Debate Story http://bit.ly/hdQafD nonprofitlawyer: Fdn support for public policy-related activities increased over last 5 yrs but...
The 2010 Relief Act – IRA Charitable Rollover
On December 17, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (the 2010 Relief Act). One of the individual tax relief provisions deals with extending an expiring provision related to distributions from individual retirement plans for charitable purposes. Prior...
Tweets of the Week – December 17, 2010
End of the year approaching and predictions, trends, and reflections abound. Here are some of my favorite posts of the week in the areas of nonprofit organizations, corporate governance, philanthropy, and social enterprises: Six Year-End Tweets: p2173: Ten for the next ten , Philanthropy 2010-2020. http://j.mp/hmvFkJ. Also at...
BoardSource Leadership Forum – Part III: Nonprofit Governance Challenges
At the BoardSource Leadership Forum, Thomas K. Hyatt, SNR Denton, presented the session “Ripped from the Headlines! Nonprofit Governance Challenges from Front Page News” using seven news headlines from the last year as case studies of compliance “war stories.” Hyatt notes these headlines represent a range of governance challenges...
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