by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 28, 2020 | Nonprofit Management
Foreign corporate donors who want to influence US elections are funding efforts to persuade the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to drop donor reporting requirements, specifically the Schedule B form for 501(c) nonprofits. Lee Fang filed this report for The Intercept:...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 28, 2020 | Nonprofit Management
Donor-Advised Funds (DAF) are investment accounts for charitable donations to nonprofits. These have boomed since the changes brought about by changes in tax law since 2017. DAFs offer greater tax benefits, less regulation, and greater flexibility compared to setting...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 28, 2020 | Nonprofit Management
Because the impact of nonprofit activities is much harder to quantify than for-profit businesses, the advent of improved data harvesting and analyzing technologies can only help nonprofits gain a better sense of how to improve themselves over time. Margaret Lindquist...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 28, 2020 | Nonprofit Management
Three years after 23 state charity regulators filed a lawsuit, Paypal caved in and has agreed to provide more information to donors who use the Paypal Charitable Gift Fund to make donations to nonprofits. According to the terms of the settlement, Paypal will also have...
by CivicMeter Staff | Feb 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Public Health
The weather forecast is notoriously unreliable. But with the aid of better data sources and analytics, they have become much more accurate in the short term than they used to be. Epidemiologists who model the spread of flu face some of the same challenges. And...
