A Deduction From Charity

Filed under: Fundraising, Laws & Regulations, Non-Profit News — Luke Vander Linden at 9:01 am on Wednesday, March 25, 2009

In today’s Washington Post, in a column that was also printed elsewhere, Harvard economics professor Martin Feldstein theorized that “President Obama’s proposal to limit the tax deductibility of charitable contributions would effectively transfer more than $7 billion a year from the nation’s charitable institutions to the federal government.”  He repeated the concern among some that decreasing the deductible amount of philanthropic contributions by higher income tax payers would cause them to decrease their giving.

It’s a complicated argument, but he explains it this way: (Read on …)

There are jobs to be had!

Filed under: Careers — Admin at 3:35 pm on Tuesday, March 24, 2009

When some organizations have had to restructure due to the economy, it’s actually meant new opportunities in the form of newly created positions with different responsibilities than existed before.  Two such job openings have been forwarded to us in the past few days.  Hopefully one of them would fit you or someone you know and you can apply! (Read on …)