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Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

Blurred Policy Lines and the Downsides of Sharing. She calls it The Great Risk Shift, where for-profit companies are shifting the liability, overhead, insurance, and consumer risks to the individual workers (and to the consumers). Sustainability and other do-gooder motivations are much lower on the list of reasons why they participate.

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Finding Funding for Research

Peak Proposals

And either way, you may be able to leverage your data to bring about policy changes. If you spot a foundation that supports projects in your field, but has a “no unsolicited proposals” policy, even though there appears to be a fit, we advise you to cross the foundation off your list and move on to better prospects. on our blog ).

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Should You Accept ANY Type of Nonprofit Donation? (And How Should You Gracefully Decline a Gift?)

Get Fully Funded

Here’s where a Gift Acceptance Policy can help (more on that in a moment). You might say to that donor “That’s a generous offer, but our policy says I need to take this sort of donation to my Board for approval.” Either way, your Investment Policy will outline how donated stocks and bonds are handled. Now you’re off the hook.

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Some Nonprofit Workers Still In Poverty, Struggling Financially

The NonProfit Times

They can’t afford the basics: housing, childcare, food, transportation, healthcare, technology and taxes. We must find data-informed solutions, whether through policy or practice, to meet the needs of nonprofit workers who are struggling financially. ALICE households include those employed by nonprofits and otherwise.

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Strengthening communities by supporting the nonprofit workforce 

Candid

We nonprofit workers focus our attention on families who have trouble affording safe housing, enough food, quality child care and health care, reliable transportation, and technology. In 2022, 48% owned their homes, only 4% had any investment income, 25% were covered by public health insurance, and 10% had no coverage at all.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Sounds Alarm for Estate Planning Needs

Center for Major Gifts

One surviving child is just graduating from high school and needs transportation, so he just grabs the keys to a car sitting in the driveway that belonged to his recently deceased grandmother and starts driving it. For example, something as simple as a vehicle owned by the deceased legally becomes an asset in the estate.