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Reduce Food Waste & Improve Food Insecurity For Americans

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The Food Donation Improvement Act reduces liability for donors who make food donations. This bipartisan legislation will reduce food waste and improve food insecurity by encouraging new public and private partnerships by expanding liability protection for food donors. However, there is good news. How, you may ask?

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Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Sharing Economy

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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). We can be the watchdogs that call out the inequities as this sector grows and to foster its growth where it brings about social good.

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

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If your organization is expected to pick up and transport the item, is there a deadline to do so? Certain types of gifts must be reviewed by the Board prior to acceptance due to the special liabilities they may pose for [Organization Name]. Can your organization afford to maintain and repair the item? Who will move the item?

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