Frequently Asked Questions
This page contains answers to many frequently asked questions about the nonprofit sector. More detailed technical notes are also available in the KnowledgeBase. General Nonprofit Information What are nonprofit organizations? Formal organizations in the United States are typically thought about in three broad categories: Business and industry, or "for-profit" organizations Government, including state, local, and federal agencies that provide services and regulation Nonprofit organizations, that qualify for tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code because they are organized for the specific purposes stated in the Code. Although there are legal distinctions among nonprofit organizations and different reporting requirements, all are exempt from paying federal income taxes. Are all nonprofit organizations public charities? No. Public charities receive their tax-exemption under subsection (3) of Section 501(c). Other tax-exempt organizations and their 501(c) subsection include: Form 990.
50 Beautiful And Creative Portfolio Designs
Advertisement Design portfolios come in various forms. Traditionally, they have been print-based and something you would carry to a client pitch or meeting to showcase what you’ve done and how you did it. Today, many designers take advantage of the Internet to publish and showcase their work via their online portfolios. Having your work displayed online removes the geographical restraints that traditional portfolios impose on you. With many portfolios online, it’s often hard to stand out from the sea of competition out there. In this showcase, you’ll find a variety of beautiful, unique and highly creative portfolio designs. You may also want to take a look at the following related articles: Creating A Successful Online Portfolio1031 In this article, we review five pitfalls that commonly plague portfolio design. 50 Beautiful and Creative Portfolios Pikaboo2 This portfolio showcases a creative navigation scheme; use the scroll button on the mouse to navigate up and down the showcase.
NRA Halts Sale of Ex-Members' Names
Mar. 3, 1994 12:10 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) _ The National Rifle Association, besieged by members angered to learn that the group was selling former members' names to anyone with the money to buy them, canceled the practice, effective immediately. Wednesday's action by NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre Jr. came a day after The Associated Press reported that the group had been selling lists of more than 697,000 former NRA members who had dropped out in the past four years. ''The privacy of our members is of paramount importance and outweighs the revenue benefit of renting the lists,'' LaPierre said, stressing that active NRA members' names have always been and will remain confidential. Robert Marcario, the NRA's managing director of membership, had said earlier: ''Our rule is, somebody gone for six months, they're fair game and we can sell their name.'' Many organizations sell membership lists, but the NRA promises to keep its members' names secret.
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Superman
Waiting for “Superman” a film directed by Davis Guggenheim Ordinarily, documentaries about education attract little attention, and seldom, if ever, reach neighborhood movie theaters. Two other films expounding the same arguments—The Lottery and The Cartel—were released in the late spring, but they received far less attention than Guggenheim’s film. The message of these films has become alarmingly familiar: American public education is a failed enterprise. The Cartel maintains that we must not only create more charter schools, but provide vouchers so that children can flee incompetent public schools and attend private schools. For many people, these arguments require a willing suspension of disbelief. Waiting for “Superman” and the other films appeal to a broad apprehension that the nation is falling behind in global competition. Waiting for “Superman” tells the story of five children who enter a lottery to win a coveted place in a charter school.
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Is Banking Unusually Prone to Risky Practices? Posner
I think the answer is “yes,” and that this becomes apparent if we understand the Darwinian character of competition, though this is not to suggest that competition invariably, or even typically, leads to corrupt behavior. There are many analogies between biological evolution and commercial markets, and as a result words like “competition” and “equilibrium” are important both in evolutionary biology and in economics. In an article published in 1950 the economist Armen Alchian argued that standard economic results could be predicted as products of a struggle for survival among competitors, without need to assume conscious profit maximization by any of them. But the explicit analogizing of economic behavior to Darwinian theory is far older than 1950, and in fact reached itsapogee in the decades following the publication in 1859 of The Origin of Species—in the movement that came to be known as Social Darwinism.
Why Do Banks Need to Be Regulated?
Posted at 11:45 a.m. on Oct. 29, 2012 Judge Richard Posner provides an evolutionary theory for the risk-prone nature of banking systems. “The shorter the term of the bank’s borrowed money, and the longer the term at which it lends, the bigger the spread but the greater the risk of default. If the lenders to the bank decide that the bank is making risky loans, they, or some of them, may decide to withdraw their money… One might think that, cognizant of such risks, banks would be cautious borrowers and lenders; they would not borrow so short (and thus risk a run) or make such long-term (and therefore risky) loans. But that need not be true. Maximizing spread may be very risky in the long run, but in the short run it may generate very high profits that shareholders and managers may be able to pocket and may compensate them for the risk of a future disaster, the costs of which will be borne by others.” “Darwinian evolution is toward fitness rather than goodness.
