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			<title><![CDATA[Tips for Creating a Mobile Friendly Website]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[These days, when the vast majority of mobile devices are smart phones, there is a good chance that a significant portion of a businesss customer base comes from people browsing while on the move. Making sure your website is smart phone optimized and mobile friendly is essential to tapping into this potentially lucrative subset of consumers. Heres how to do it.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 09:51:14 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Raise Money for Your Nonprofit with a Fundraising Budget]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Some nonprofits struggle from the outset as they figure out the best way to manage their operations. One way to avoid the pitfalls that affect these organizations is to establish a fundraising budget. Follow these simple guidelines to control your nonprofit's expenses.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:30:14 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Motivate Volunteers with Hands-On Training Programs]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A nonprofit can only go so far without enthusiastic volunteers. These workers may support your organization in various capacities, but finding the best way to motivate volunteers can be a challenge for many nonprofits.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:29:33 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Charity Websites Can Provide Ease of Use to Attract Visitors]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Charity websites seek ways to attract donors, and providing a user-friendly website is an ideal option. However, finding the best design to help a visitor maximize their experience can be challenging, but these tips can serve as a guide to build the perfect site for your nonprofit.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:48:48 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Know the Risks Before You Head to the Cloud: A Primer on Cloud Computing Legal Risks and Issues for Nonprofits]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A "cloud" solution is generally typified by remote access to computing resources and software functionality and frequently involves the storage and maintenance of related data.  Today, cloud computing facilitates applications, e-mail, peer-to-peer communication, content sharing, and electronic transactions or storage for nonprofits.  In many respects, the ?cloud? has become a synonym for the ?Internet? as cloud computing now encompasses nearly all available computing services and resources.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:16:03 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Five Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits]]></title>
			<guid>http://www.taxexemptresource.com/articles/view.php?article_id=5558</guid>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nonprofits that want to achieve their goals often rely on fundraising to bolster their budgets.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:03:28 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Non Profits Can Use Social Media]]></title>
			<guid>http://www.taxexemptresource.com/articles/view.php?article_id=5498</guid>
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			<description><![CDATA[The world is an extremely connected place. People communicate with one another in a variety of ways, and whether online or in person, they enjoy exchanging information that is important to them.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:25:34 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Fundraising Newsletter May Generate More Donations]]></title>
			<guid>http://www.taxexemptresource.com/articles/view.php?article_id=5513</guid>
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			<description><![CDATA[If you manage a non profit organization and want to improve your fundraising efforts, you may want to see how a carefully crafted newsletter can increase donation rates.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:25:29 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[CPAs Give Business Advice to Veterans through Partnership with SCORE]]></title>
			<guid>http://www.taxexemptresource.com/articles/view.php?article_id=5314</guid>
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			<description><![CDATA[- CPAs now have an opportunity to volunteer and provide up to five hours of free financial advice to veterans about starting or growing their

  business. 

- Many volunteers are veterans themselves and are passionate about working with other veterans. 

- AICPA is supporting their member CPA volunteers by providing access to the Veteran Fast Launch Initiative Toolkit.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:17:52 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[US Government Grants Review - How to Find Grant Money You Qualify For]]></title>
			<guid>http://www.taxexemptresource.com/articles/view.php?article_id=5252</guid>
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			<description><![CDATA[Federal funding can prove a good manner of finding the financial support important to effectively operate a business or a business. Grant funding can get your request from beginning to completion. Although government grants provide funding for specific projects, grants are essentially contracts with the government and you ought to follow their compliance requirements to maintain grant funding. You must first be qualified to put on for and receive federal grant funding. Knowing how to know very well what government grants you qualify for can ease the government grants course of action.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:15:53 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sales and Use Tax Exemptions for Nonprofits]]></title>
			<guid>http://www.taxexemptresource.com/articles/view.php?article_id=5229</guid>
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			<description><![CDATA["In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." When Benjamin Franklin wrote this sardonic proverb to Jean-Baptiste Leroy in 1789, tax exemptions were likely few, and he certainly wasn't talking about tax-exempt charities. Nowadays, the only things more pervasive than taxes are exceptions, deductions and exemptions from taxes.  As for charities, not only are these entities potentially immortal in terms of their perpetual corporate existence, but they also have the keen ability to avoid most taxes.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:56:44 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How To Make An Effective Fundraising Sales Script]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In every sales fundraising campaign that you want to organize, you need to make sure that you prepare a good sales script for your sales volunteers. Sales scripts help your volunteers to be more effective in the selling process and at the same time making sure that they can easily encourage people to buy their products. Without a good sales script at hand, your fundraising members would struggle in selling their fundraising products since you cannot force your customers to buy your goods; you need to give them a good reason why purchasing your products is worth every penny.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:16:57 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Filing Deadline Extended to March 30 for Some Tax-Exempt Organizations]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that tax-exempt organizations that have January and February filing due dates have until March 30, 2012, to file their annual returns.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:07:40 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Enrolled Agent Study Covers When Tax-Exempt Entities Owe Tax]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Tax law allows many types of entities to exempt their income from tax. As long as an activity serves a social benefit, it may apply for tax-exempt status. A business operation that uses profits for a public purpose that's acceptable to the IRS is eligible for tax-exempt classification. Such businesses may even compete with taxable operations.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:59:43 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Boatsman Gillmore's Make an Impact Foundation Awards $20,000 to North Carolina Children's Charities]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Most people have fantasized and asked themselves, "If I had all the money in the world, what would I do with it?" Some might buy a yacht and travel the world. Others might acquire their favorite sports franchise. Most would probably buy a huge house, a fleet of fancy cars, and kick back for life.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:54:04 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What is a 2st Century Nonprofit?]]></title>
			<guid>http://www.taxexemptresource.com/articles/view.php?article_id=4846</guid>
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			<description><![CDATA[The first ten years of the new century (and the new millenia), significantly re-shaped the landscape of the nonprofit sector.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:35:50 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How to Choose the Right Manufacturer for Your Donor Signage Wall]]></title>
			<guid>http://www.taxexemptresource.com/articles/view.php?article_id=4594</guid>
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			<description><![CDATA[As a non-profit organization, you likely rely heavily on the generous donations of your supporters. That being said, it is absolutely crucial that you give them the gratitude and recognition they deserve. Doing so is not only the decent thing to do, but it also helps increase the chances that you will continue to receive donations in the future. One of the best ways to go about this is through donor recognition signage.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:54:32 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Gap In Understanding: How To Help Board Members Understand Nonprofits]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Agencies seek out top business leaders to put on their Board, hoping that they will bring their professional acumen to the Board room-often only to be disappointed. &nbsp;Did these leaders check their business experience at the door? &nbsp;Why do they often make such poor business decisions in guiding the agency's future?]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 14:17:36 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Small nonprofits that lost exempt status may be eligible for reinstatement]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In general, exempt organizations must file an annual information return, such  as a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF.However, several categories of exempt  organizations, including most organizations whose annual gross receipts are  normally not more than $50,000 ($25,000 for tax years beginning before 2010),  were exempt from this filing requirement.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:23:43 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Thousands of not-for-profits could have tax-exempt status revoked]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Now that the October 15 deadline has passed, as many as 400,000 not-for-profit organizations could be in danger of losing their tax exempt status, according to Bob Ottenhoff, president and CEO of Guidestar USA, a Washington, D.C.-based philanthropic research organization.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:35:59 CST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIPS IN A 1031 EXCHANGE: THE DROP AND SWAP]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Coordinating a 1031 exchange for limited liability companies or partnerships can present a unique set of challenges.&nbsp; If the entity itself will remain intact, the partnership or the LLC can sell its property and purchase replacement property through the 1031 exchange process.&nbsp; However, a common issue that arises is that not all of the members or partners can agree on a property to purchase, or even if they want to do an exchange at all.&nbsp; ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:03:46 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[POSSIBLE INCREASE IN THE CARRIED INTEREST TAX]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to pass H.R. 4213, which, effective January 1, 2011, will increase the tax on carried interest. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:55:31 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[THE EVER-CHANGING CAPITAL GAINS TAX]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Taxes, like life, can be like riding a roller coaster. Sometimes it&rsquo;s up and sometimes it&rsquo;s down. This is definitely the case when speaking about the Federal capital gains rate for individuals. In the past 20 years, this tax has been as high as 28% and is currently at its low point of 15%. But, this too shall change as of January 1, 2011, when the rate is scheduled to go back to 20%. ]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:42:02 CDT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Avoiding Non-Profit Audits]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[
Non-profit audits are a nightmare. Download this white paper and learn how to&nbsp;reduce your chances of being audited and adopt proactive procedures to ensure all financial statements, disclosures and documents are in order if an audit occurs.

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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:06:39 CDT</pubDate>
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