IRS Seeks Nominations for New Advisory Panel
The Internal Revenue Service is seeking candidates for a new panel that will advise the agency about issues relating to tax-exempt organizations. Nominees’ names will be forwarded to the Secretary of the Treasury, who will appoint up to 21 people to the Tax Exempt Advisory Committee. Panel members,…
By Stephen G. Greene
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Land Deals Show Promise, Pitfalls of Preservation
Across northern New England, paper companies are selling off forestland at an unprecedented rate as part of an industry-wide restructuring. ALSO SEE:Preserving Open Space for the AgesSome Recent Transactions Involving Land Trusts As governments have balked at the chance to greatly expand the stock…
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Some Recent Transactions Involving Land Trusts
Several prominent land-protection agreements announced in recent months show the variety of ways ALSO SEE:Preserving Open Space for the AgesLand Deals Show Promise, Pitfalls of Preservation non-profit land trusts can now put together big deals. Among the most noteworthy: * The Trust for Public Land…
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Preserving Open Space for the Ages
As land trusts win broad support, they grapple with new challenges Non-profit organizations dedicated to preserving land have emerged from the placid backwaters ALSO SEE:Land Deals Show Promise, Pitfalls of PreservationSome Recent Transactions Involving Land Trusts of the conservation movement to…
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Grassroots Globalism, by Degrees
Novel training program links activist groups on 3 continents Since graduating in 1983 with an education degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Rosa Mendoza has had few opportunities for formal training in non-profit issues or management. Yet as a trainer and consultant working with…
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Charity Closes Its Warehouse in Tennessee
The director of Feed the Children’s distribution warehouse in Nashville has resigned in the wake of a scandal that has forced the temporary closing of the facility. The actions came after local television station WTVF broadcast a report that showed the director, Steve Highfill, and other senior…
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Council Recommends Lower Payout Rate for Younger Donors of Gift Annuities
Beginning next month, charities should slightly lower the payout rate for younger donors of gift annuities, ALSO SEE:New Gift-Annuity Rates according to a national organization of planned-giving fund raisers. The American Council on Gift Annuities has recommended that charities trim the rate they…
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Move by court seeks to avert threat to Bishop Estate’s tax exemption A long struggle to wrest control of one of America’s wealthiest and most powerful charities ALSO SEE:Old and New Trustees of the Bishop EstateFROM THE ARCHIVES:9/17/89: For Trustees Who Run Hawaii’s Bishop Estate, the Rewards Are…
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Court Approves Exemption for Anonymous-Gift Fund
A federal appeals court has ruled that an organization created to make it easier for people to give anonymously to charity is entitled to tax-exempt status. William J. Lehrfeld, a lawyer in Bethesda, Md., established the Fund for Anonymous Gifts in 1993 to permit donors to support unpopular or…
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‘Outside’: Green Groups Go to the Grassroots
As the modern environmental movement ends its third decade, “we’ve arrived at the age of the little guy,” says Outside magazine. While most major national organizations have been forced to trim their staffs and refocus their programs after losing support, the magazine says, much of the movement’s…
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