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Nonprofit Legal Compliance in an Unfriendly Political Environment

NonProfit Quarterly

Its board actions might be reversed because they were not taken pursuant to the organizations bylaws or applicable corporate laws. Ensure activities are operated consistent with all applicable laws , including Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code and any licensing, registration, zoning, and contractual requirements.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The leaders of a nonprofit community garden want to help residents move up the value chain by selling food products from their homes, but state law restricts food production to commercial kitchens or farms. Changing the law will require lobbying strategies, connections to policy makers, and legal expertise.

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Corporate Partnerships & The Law: Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT)

Selfish Giving

requested guidance on in the Selfish Giving / Accelerist Partnership Law Survey you completed last year. These organizations typically focus on other ways that they can collaborate to create a win-win partnership. This is the final part of a four-part series on the four key legal issues you - my readers!

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The Future of Fundraising: 3 Tips to Leverage Nonprofit AI

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Collaborative ) as your foundation. Collaboration to learn from other organizations committed to responsible AI use. Legal compliance to remain aware of and abide by applicable AI laws and regulations. Your organization can prevent many of these risks and maximize these solutions’ benefits by committing to use AI responsibly.

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Learning That Changes Lives: Local Leader Shares Journey to Nonprofit Success

NonProfit Leadership Center

Collaborative. After studying finance in college and then receiving her law degree from Florida State University, Erin practiced law for 13 years — first as in-house counsel for a multi-family housing company, then in private practice at a law firm, and finally as a prosecutor at the state attorney’s office. Empowering.

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Doing good, wrong? The role of philanthropy in keeping people safe

Candid

The Funder Safeguarding Collaborative (FSC)fiscally sponsored and co-founded by Global Fund for Childrenworks to create organizational practices and cultures in support of safeguarding. Those cases sparked awareness among many funders of their role in incentivizing safety and their obligations when failures occur at grantee organizations.

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Are Your Comms Helpful Now or Just Adding More Noise?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

A local humane society compared the mistreatment of Black people in custody of law enforcement to the mistreatment of animals. Throughout this entire COVID-19 crisis, Kishshana Palmer’s Rooted Collaborative has been giving me life. Both are incredibly tone-insensitive. . BIPOC Women, this is a healing space.*.

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