The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

New legislation, recently introduced in the Senate, would create tax-free "personal philanthropy accounts" to encourage pre-tax charitable giving. S 3881, introduced by Senators Isakson (R - Georgia) and Lautenberg (D - New Jersey), would allow workers to contribute up to $15,000 to nonprofits annually by payroll deduction. By making these deductions "pre-tax," it increases the employee's take-home pay (compared to making the donation after-tax) by reducing the amount on which taxes are calculat

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2006

According to the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the folks responsible for the ".org" top-level domain, there are now over 5,000,000 registered dot-orgs worldwide. "This is a significant milestone for the.ORG registry and we are excited that the number of.ORG registrations worldwide has increased by over 25 percent in less than 1 year," said Edward G.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Greetings and welcome to the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, edition #13. This carnival is the creation of Kivi Leroux Miller of the Writing 911 blog (and more). Each edition of the carnival is a collection of the best advice and resources that consultants and other support organizations are offering to nonprofits through their blogs each week. I am your guest host/consultant for the week, Ken Goldstein.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 15, 2006

Well, maybe not to town, but to this blog. On Monday I will be hosting the next edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. "What's a nonprofit consultant carnival?". It is a collection of the best advice and resources that consultants and other support organizations are offering to nonprofits through their blogs each week. My posts have been featured in several previous editions of the carnival, and on Monday it will be my responsibility to choose the best recent postings from all the oth

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

Posted to the IRS' web site : Where Is My Exemption Application? Many exempt organizations and practitioners may have noticed an increase in the timeframe to process an application for tax-exempt status. We apologize for any delays you may be experiencing and we are taking steps to decrease processing time. This delay is the result of a backlog of exemption applications.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

Last week I completed an Interim Executive Director position that involved merging a small nonprofit child care agency into a larger one. (I will write more about that and the lessons learned in a future post.) Today, I received a wonderful thank you note from the [now former] board chair who hired me. I want to share part of that note and then use it to illustrate some points all nonprofits can learn from.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

SEPTEMBER 3, 2006

By now you've probably at least heard of YouTube - the web site where users upload their home made videos. It's now one of the most popular sites around, with a variety of videos from serious and professionally done to silly little personal rants shot on cell phone cameras. This week I was introduced to a new site, called DoGooder.TV that intends to become somewhat of a YouTube for the nonprofit community.

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