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Tax Reform Update: Congress Ramps Up Tax Reform Efforts
Treasury Names New Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax Affairs
In the States: Nonprofits Balk at Making “Voluntary” PILOT Payments to Boston
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Stephanie Danforth Chafee’s ancestors trace their roots in Rhode Island back to the Mayflower. Her philanthropic heritage in the area is almost as deep and conservative.
Her mother was a leading supporter of the Parent Teachers Association, the Zoological Society and the Roger Williams Zoo.…
The following content was writen by Michael Seltzer and originally appeared in Philanthropy News Digest, a service of Candid.
While media outlets — both online and print — have been quick to offer suggestions as to how individuals should channel their charitable impulses to help…
On September 14, 2017, the Council on Foundations co-hosted a webinar with the Center for Disaster Philanthropy and the Southeastern Council on Foundations to provide updates on U.S. damages and the situation throughout the Caribbean, and ways funders can address recovery needs. A panel of experts…
A family foundation's legal responsibilities for monitoring, assessing, or evaluating the grants it makes to organizations with 501(c)(3) tax exempt status are minimal. The IRS requires little in the way of detailed reporting on the outcome of specific grants—except for grants to organizations that…
In collaborative partnership, Global Impact, Blackbaud, Council on Foundations and Foundation Center developed a new resource to support organizations in aligning and tracking charitable giving to the United Nations (U.N.) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More specifically, the creation of…
The Council on Foundations announced today that Noah Atencio, Vice President of Community Impact for the Community First Foundation in Arvada, Colorado, will receive the 2017 Robert W. Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking.
Established in honor of the late Robert Winston Scrivner, the award…
Looking for the single best way to manage a family foundation? You may be looking for a long time. Because family foundations are unique within the foundation world, there is no one-size-fits-all answer to management. Each family creates its own rules and structures for its foundation, allowing for…
It has been an eventful month with back to back hurricanes causing extensive damage in Florida,Texas, and the Caribbean. The Council has been in contact with community foundations in the affected areas to offer our thoughts and has set up some valuable resources which I am sharing in this issue.…