Legal and regulatory
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
Read More...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.
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What Works (5.9Mb)
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)
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
Read More...2008, 151 pages. The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, www.sharpeartfdn.org
http://sharpeartfdn.qwestoffice.net/supplement/2008-supplement.pdf
Read More...2005, 11 pages. TCC Group, 31 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001, (212) 949-0990
Read More...2008, 33 pages. Grantcraft, The Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, New York, NY, 10017,
(212) 573-4879, www.grantcraft.org
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
Read More...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.
What was at stake
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