Anyone can write a grant request but how do you become a winning grant writer who gets the awards? How about learning from an author who has been doing it successfully for 40 years? Don't let the title fool you, Grant Writing for Dummies is a savvy, thorough exploration of the grant-writing process in a slow, post-recession economy.
It's common sense that giving shouldn't make you financially richer. That's what's wrong with questionable gift schemes - and the tax opinions used in their marketing materials, says lawyer David Thompson of Scarfone Hawkins LLP.
Janet Gadeski reports on how he wrestled an $11 million settlement from the law firm that backstopped the discredited Banyan Tree Foundation giving program. "We do view the Banyan Tree case as an important precedent," says Thompson's colleague.
Four kinds of people are most likely to leave your charity a bequest. Leah Eustace says they're already in your database and tells you how to find them.
Hint: don't "Miss" out on the most productive segment of all.
In an unprecedented step in recent memory, the Standing Committee on Finance ("FINA") has undertaken a study on tax incentives for charitable donations. Charity law expert Terrance Carter notes concern in the charitable sector that there may be few, if any, limitations on that study.
Members of FINA, he warns, may focus on other issues, such as transparency and the purported need for more accountability from registered charities. Recent media coverage concerning the FINA hearings to date has reinforced this concern.
Four kinds of people are most likely to leave your charity a bequest. Leah Eustace says they're already in your database and tells you how to find them. 
In an unprecedented step in recent memory, the Standing Committee on Finance ("FINA") has undertaken a study on tax incentives for charitable donations. Charity law expert Terrance Carter notes concern in the charitable sector that there may be few, if any, limitations on that study.
