Legal and regulatory

November 12, 2009 by Steve

This short web article by Rob Reich explores the role tax deductions play as an incentive to charitable giving.

A free article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review

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November 12, 2009 by Steve

The story of how the Boston Foundation became the first community foundation to develop and implement policy on exercising its proxy votes on investments to advance its mission.

Posted courtesy of Stanford Social Innovation Review

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   What Works (5.9Mb)

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November 12, 2009 by Steve

This article demonstrates how the income tax break for charitable contributions effectively creates an inequitable federal subsidy of some charitable organizations over others, and proposes policy changes that would address this situation.

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   Failure of Philanthropy (362Kb)

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April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 129 pages. FSG Social Impact Advisors, 20 Park Plaza, Suite 320, Boston, MA, 02116, 617-357-4000, www.fsg-impact.org

http://www.fsg-impact.org/ideas/item/Guide_to_Law_of_Mission_Related_Investing.html

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April 30, 2009 by giarts-ts-admin
Bill Ivey chaired the National Endowment for the Arts from 1998 through 2001, directed the Country Music Foundation from 1971 to 1998, and was twice elected chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. He presently serves as founding director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University.
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September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2005, 11 pages. TCC Group, 31 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001, (212) 949-0990

http://www.tccgrp.com/pdfs/per_brief_impact.pdf

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September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 33 pages. Grantcraft, The Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY, 10017,
(212) 573-4879, www.grantcraft.org

http://www.grantcraft.org/pdfs/guide_gti.pdf

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September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

2008, 23 pages. TCC Group, 31 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001, (212) 949-0990

http://www.tccgrp.com/pdfs/MaximizingFoundationEffectiveness.pdf

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September 30, 2008 by giarts-ts-admin

The Federal Communications Commission formally voted Friday (August 1, 2008) to uphold the complaint against Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, saying that it had illegally inhibited users of its high-speed Internet service from using popular file-sharing software. The decision, which imposes no fine, requires Comcast to end such blocking this year.

—Saul Hansell, The New York Times, August 2, 2008

What was at stake

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