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Each month we highlight a couple of our nonprofit partners who have unique fundraising events, great success stories, or something else fantastic going on that we'd like to tell you about. Next up in our nonprofit fundraising series, ...If used correctly, #hashtags can be very useful to nonprofits on Twitter. Hashtags allow your organization to participate and inspire conversations (and in the process get new followers) and organize the Twitterverse around campaigns ...A planned mass mailing that would have disclosed many Virginians' personal voting history was halted Wednesday amid indications that the information may have been acquired illegally.DC officials and a nonprofit group that operates a network of homes for the developmentally disabled have reached an agreement to improve the quality of its care.Looks like someone at Columbia agrees with their colleague Michael Schudson's argument that universities should get more involved in creating original.Humor plays an important role in building identity, yet charities and foundations don't seem to laugh at themselves very often, writes Gabriela Fitz, co-director of IssueLab, an online publisher of nonprofit research. ...The Marshall Direct Fund (MDF) was established to eliminate global poverty through investing in females, with the goals of increased school enrollment and attendance, higher literacy rates and higher income for Pakistani girls and women ...With nonprofit chief executive compensation coming under increasing scrutiny by the IRS, state regulators, the media, legislators, and potential funders, BoardSource has published a new book that will help nonprofit boards set ...InfoGroup is combining its non-profit related businesses into one direct marketing services provider that is being called InfoGroup Nonprofit.Beginning next month, clients of InfoGroup divisions Triplex and May Development Services will ...Now that I'm the executive director of Story Chasers Inc., an Oklahoma nonprofit focused on digital storytelling and our state oral history project, I definitely am more attuned to issues related to nonprofits and effective a�?story ...
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO a�� 4 hours ago

WASHINGTON a�� An early progress report on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports.

The government's first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money. But that figure is overstated by least 5,000 jobs, or one in six, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts.

The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced.

For example:

_ A company working with the Federal Communications Commission reported that stimulus money paid for 4,231 jobs, when about 1,000 were produced.

_ A Georgia community college reported creating 280 jobs with recovery money, but none was created from stimulus spending.

_ A Florida child care center said its stimulus money saved 129 jobs but used the money on raises for existing employees.

There's no evidence the White House sought to inflate job numbers in the report. But administration officials seized on the 30,000 figure as evidence that the stimulus program was on its way toward fulfilling the president's promise of creating or saving 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.

The reporting problem could be magnified Friday when a much larger round of reports is expected to show hundreds of thousands of jobs repairing public housing, building schools, repaving highways and keeping teachers on local payrolls.

But the White House promises many problems will be corrected in Friday's report.

"I think you'll see a pretty good degree of accuracy," said Ed DeSeve, an Obama adviser helping to oversee the stimulus program.

DeSeve said the administration is aware of problems with the early data. Agencies have been working with businesses that received the money to correct mistakes. Other errors discovered by the public also will be corrected, he said.

"If there's an error that was made, let's get it fixed," DeSeve said.

The White House released a statement early Thursday responding to the AP review, arguing what the administration said are the "real facts" about how jobs were counted in the stimulus data distributed two weeks ago. It said for the first time Thursday that release had been a test run of a small subset of data that had been subjected only to three days of reviews, that it had already corrected "virtually all" the mistakes identified by the AP and that the discovery of mistakes "does not provide a statistically significant indication of the quality of the full reporting that will come on Friday."

The data partially reviewed by the AP for errors included all the data presently available, representing all known federal contracts awarded to businesses under the stimulus program. The figures being released Friday include different categories of stimulus spending by state governments, housing authorities, nonprofit groups and other organizations.

As of early Thursday, on its recovery.org Web site, the government was still citing 30,383 as the actual number of jobs linked so far to stimulus spending, despite the mistakes the White House has now acknowledged and said were being corrected.

It's not clear just how far off the 30,000 claim was. The AP's review was not an exhaustive accounting of all 9,000 contracts, but homed in on the most obvious cases where there were indications of duplications or misinterpretations.

While the thousands of overstated jobs represent a tiny sliver of the overall economy, they represent a significant percentage of the initial employment count credited to the stimulus program.

Tom Gavin, a spokesman for the White House budget office, attributed the errors to officials as well as recipients having to conduct such reporting for the first time.

In fact, the AP review shows some businesses undercounted the number of jobs funded under the stimulus program by not reporting jobs saved.

Here are some of the findings:

_ Colorado-based Teletech Government Solutions on a $28.3 million contract with the Federal Communications Commission for creation of a call center, reported creating 4,231 jobs, although 3,000 of those workers were paid for five weeks or less.

"We all felt it was an appropriate way to represent the data at the time" and the reporting error has been corrected, said company president Mariano Tan.

_ The Toledo, Ohio-based Koring Group received two FCC contracts, again for call centers. It reported hiring 26 people for each contract, or a total of 52 jobs, but cited the same workers for both contracts. The jobs only lasted about two months.


thousands of African children denounced as witches. Catholics also being targeted.
By Protestant Chirstians.

Link

Quote:

EKET, Nigeria (AP) a�� The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.

His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The emaciated boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him a�� Mount Zion Lighthouse.

A month later, he died.

Nwanaokwo Edet was one of an increasing number of children in Africa accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members. Pastors were involved in half of 200 cases of "witch children" reviewed by the AP, and 13 churches were named in the case files.

Some of the churches involved are renegade local branches of international franchises. Their parishioners take literally the Biblical exhortation, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."

"It is an outrage what they are allowing to take place in the name of Christianity," said Gary Foxcroft, head of nonprofit Stepping Stones Nigeria.
There's more stories like this are all over the place anyone interested in helping to end this go here Link
Sorry, it seems the links did not come thru.


I am the person starting the nonprofit and was wondering if i can sit on the board of directors as well? I plan on being in charge of the daily operations as the executive officer. Should I be on the board and nominate myself as Executive officer?


if i have a resume that contains this experience:

1 year internship in atl as a communication intern doing data entry, small pr projects, and newsletter

receptionist for nine months doing almost nothing but data entry and mail

two months (so far) government employee for job placement and unemployment problems and TAA (trade adjustment act) which includes lotsa paperwork

interpersonal communication and public speaking degree

some volunteer experience at some nonprofits during college-office and othertype work. no special skills or certificates or awesome GPA just average.

i am looking into speech pathology, jounalism, or human resources but dk how to get started plus i prob need more experience and/or education

i would also be interested in getting into one of the big companies in my city like UNUM, Blue cross blue shield, or TVA and work my way up but the problem is they only hire mostly through networking and i dont know anyone that works there and even if I did what would i market myself as and how do i talk to someone without making it look like i only care about getting a job?


I'm 17 and I desperately want to start a local nonprofit organization. I just really want to know any suggestions on what it can be about, you know? I know that I want it to be for young kids, I know I want to get them started on volunteering, and I know that I want to start an out of the country pen pal project. What I don't know is what could be the overall goal for it. Maybe for young kids dealing with personal issues? I'm not sure. So any suggestions would be nice.
If my question is hard to comprehend, I want any suggestions about the purpose of an organization. Like there's the optimist club, key club, HOSA, ect...


I am trying to raise money for a group that i have created, but the group is not a nonprofit organization.

My group is to raise community awareness of sex education in the US... If that makes a difference at all.

Am I legally allowed to raise money or ask for donations if I am not a nonprofit?


I want to start a nonprofit organization that helps new immigrants to America. I would provide English lessons, legal advice, help with accommodation, etc. to new immigrants. Can I start this on my own?


Last Friday I submitted a cover resume and letter for a job that I REALLY want. I put my home phone as my primary contact because I'm usually home and I get absolutely no reception on my cell here.

However, I'm thinking this is might have been a bad idea because there's a chance my mom might answer the phone, and she has a really strong accent and doesnt understand people well.

I think the HR people might have called this morning. My mom was on the phone and "private number" showed on the caller id, and when she clicked over and said hello the person hung up. Hmm...

I don't have the hiring manager's e-mail address (submitted resume using a form). Should I call her? It's a really well known nonprofit, so I dunno if she might be busy, and sometimes HR people just don't appreciate those calls. I can also go update my application on the website. Should I do that and change it to my cell number?

Help please! Thanks!

Btw, I haven't followed up by phone. I have a letter that I was planning on mailing today.


Hello all, I have a nonprofit health education group for teens. My partner and I are having a fundraiser table outside of a retail store. We bought those round, small glass fish bowl type things and some small chinese decor boxes. However, we have no idea what to put inside of them to sell. Keeping in mind that we are already outside of store. Can anyone help us out with a theme, some items to stuff or create with the bowls that will be inexpensive and maybe a price to sell? yes we are very weak when it comes to fund raising. Thanks All!


Is grant money only for nonprofit entities, or can a private person apply and receive money, if they qualify for the criteria?


I heard that there is a program that will make your student loan payments following graduation if the student goes to work for a nonprofit. Is this true, specifically in Florida?


for example, what are the advantages and disadvantages of both(non profit and profit organizatio) and then state my poin which one is better of the 2 of them


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------WASHINGTON WASHINGTON(Reuters) - Momentum is growing in the U.S. Congress for healthcare reform to include a government-run insurance option, but Senate Democrats are still short of votes needed to pass such a measure, a top Democrat said on Tuesday.

Democrats in the Senate need 60 votes to pass the bill.

"I'm told ... they have 53 to 54 votes in support of a public option in the Senate," Representative Chris Van Hollen, a member of the Democratic leadership, said at the Reuters Washington Summit.

Van Hollen predicted a government-run health insurance plan, which would offer consumers a nonprofit alternative to private health insurance companies, would be included in the final health reform bill from Congress.

The Maryland Democrat's comments follow a Washington Post-ABC News poll on Monday that showed 57 percent of Americans support a government alternative. As many as 76 percent backed such a plan as long as it was limited to those who could not afford private plans, according to the poll of roughly 1,000 people.

Health insurance firms strongly oppose a public plan, saying if would create an unfair playing field and drive some insurers out of business. Republicans, some businesses and other groups also oppose it.

President Barack Obama has made passing legislation that expands health insurance and curb costs his top domestic priority this year.

All three bills in the U.S. House of Representatives and one of two Senate bills call for some sort of nonprofit health insurance program overseen by the federal government.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday new estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) showed each of the three House proposals would reduce the U.S. budget deficit over 10 years and cost less than $900 billion.

"The preliminary estimates we've seen from the CBO enable us to make our choices knowing that whatever choice we make will reduce the deficit and will pay for the bill," said Pelosi, who did not release the estimates.

The three bills passed this year were above $1 trillion in cost. Pelosi said Democratic leaders would not bring forward a bill that did not meet Obama's goal of $900 billion. She has repeatedly said the final House bill will include a strong government-run health insurance option.

The Senate Finance Committee's bill, viewed as a leading proposal, does not contain a public option, which Obama says is needed to ensure price competition. Instead it allows for nonprofit private cooperatives, which proponents say would meet Obama's goal of providing competition to private firms.

Democratic leaders are melding the bills to come up with a final proposal for each chamber to vote on before negotiating on one final congressional bill to present to Obama.

"I believe that there's going to be enough energy and support that some form of the public option will pass," Van Hollen said, adding that a bill was still on track to pass this year. "I think we're getting near the end."

Analyst Ethan Siegal saw little appetite for a government option that reimbursed doctors at the same low rates as the Medicare insurance program for the elderly, or one that negotiated directly with providers over costs.

Instead, variations of the option -- such as one "triggered" by certain circumstances, or state-run public insurance plans rather than a federal one -- are more palatable, said Siegal, whose company, The Washington Exchange, follows the health debate and other issues for investors.

"Some combination of those are likely to be in the final bill," he told the Reuters Washington Summit, adding that passage is likely this year, although it could be early 2010 before Obama actually signs a reform bill into law.

If a public option is included, the bill won't get the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's support, the group's top lobbyist said.

"We will oppose it," said Bruce Josten, executive vice president for government affairs for the chamber, which claims to be the world's biggest business federation.

Aside from the public option, Van Hollen said House Democratic leaders are still working through how to ensure that no public dollars are used to fund abortion.

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and by the way that's not my homework. i just need it to be summarized so i can understand what all tha means so I CAN DO MY HOMEWORK. if someone is kind enough to help me i can fninish this homework which is due tomorrow and be done.
also how does this relate to Congress?





the Nazis made medallions and coins of Martin Luther who was a virulent anti- Semitic.

Martin Luther wrote a book called 'On the Jews and Their Lies"

The following is from Wikiquote which is is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a US-registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity

On the Jews and Their Lies (German: Von den Juden und ihren LA?gen) is a treatise written in January 1543 by Martin Luther, the German theologian, in which he advocated harsh persecution of the Jewish people. Four centuries later, the Nazis used quotations from this pamphlet to justify their Final Solution.


How do people actually justify thinking this guy was right in his assertion of what he thinks is right??? And why doesn't history show that he wasn't MORE of a bigot instead of a respected person of society?
@good mood....well you should care. hes the founder of what being a protestant is.
and they say hitler was a catholic pfft...


I understand real life assisting a wedding planner is the #1 ideal way to get experience, but I do have event planning experience already. It's not in the wedding field, but with nonprofits.

Anyway, aside from that, I was specifically wondering about possible online courses or a good program that's nationwide? (Preferably in Oklahoma City, OK or in Texas).


Many people say that businesspeople do not do enough for society. Some students choose to go into the public sector instead of business because they "want to help others". However, business people say that the do more to help others than nonprofit groups do because they provide jobs for people rather than giving them charity, which often precludes them from searching for work. furthermore, they believe that businesses create all the wealth that nonprofit groups distribute


In order to take possession of real estate as an officer of a nonprofit organization, does the nonprofit association actually have to be organized? Would it be fraud to accept the property? Would it be a criminal case or civil matter? This is a nonprofit unincorporated association.


ICANN: U.S. Moves to Lessen Its Oversight of Internet
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Washington said Wednesday that it would give other governments and the private sector a greater oversight role in an organization that oversees the Internet.

The move follows criticism from European regulators and others that the American government could wield too much influence over a system used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Those critics have complained, among other things, about the slow rollout of Internet addresses in languages other than English.

Washington, however, stopped short Wednesday of cutting ties with the organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann. The government agreed instead to establish advisory panels made up of government and private-sector representatives around the world.

The panels will review how open are the decisions made by Icann, whether they reflect the public interest, ensure stability and promote competition for domain names, like those ending in a�?.coma�? and other suffixes. Icann decisions could influence what domain names are available, what languages they are in and how much they cost.

a�?The Internet is on a long-term arch from being 100 percent American to being 100 percent global,a�? said Rod Beckstrom, the former U.S. cybersecurity chief who joined Icann in July as chief executive. a�?This is a significant step along that arch to becoming more global.a�?

Icann has had oversight over domain names under a series of loose agreements with the U.S. government, which financed much of the Interneta��s development. The latest expired Wednesday.

Many critics of Icann and its American oversight, including the European Uniona��s Internet chief, Viviane Reding, saw the expiration as an opportunity to revamp Internet governance.

Ms. Reding praised the new framework in a statement, and said the governments that now have more of a say in Icann should take advantage of the opportunity.

The Commerce Department has a guaranteed seat on only one of those panels, with the remaining representatives to be picked by leaders from Icann and its advisory committee of government officials.

But the panelsa�� recommendations will not be binding on Icann, and the Commerce Department retains oversight through a separate contract for Icann to handle the nuts-and-bolts of domain name administration. That contract runs through 2011; the new one taking effect Thursday covers Icanna��s broader role in setting guidelines and policies.

Icann also agreed to remain a nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States, with offices around the world.

Mr. Beckstrom said some critics abroad might take that to mean Internet governance still is not truly global. But he said the arrangement should ultimately bolster Icanna��s standing internationally.

a�?The U.S. government is saying, a�?O.K., you have become a multistakeholder body. Congratulations. Now on to the next set of challenges,a�?a�� Mr. Beckstrom said.


I have this problem with a creditor for a legally obligated debt incurred when I was sick. What happens was I then started a DMP Debt Management Program through a nonprofit.Essentially I made large payments every month which were a very largeportion of my income - 30% as a low income person. I finally came to about 340.00 dollars left and paid the rest through the DMP in April. What happened in the meantime is they did not credit two checks one for 150.00 and the other for 155.00. I asked them in the interim and after the balance paid off if they would send me a refund when they found those checks and they said yes immediately so I paid that balance knowing it was overpaid. Now it is nearly eight months later and they are giving me the run around. Every time I get a different response. The latest one is that they sent the check back as a refund to my 3rd party nonprofit and the nonprofit DMP has no record of such. I am rather sick of dealing with these people and gave them a 30 day demand letter with my intent to sue (for triple damages) allowable by the state of Massachusetts if they ignore me. Is this a case that is likely to be easy?


Okay, well I was planning on starting my own charity-nonprofit type of thing. My idea was to make and collect (and of course wash) and deliver stuffed animals, pillows, and blankets to the terminally illl children at our local children's hospital. however, i am struggling deeply to come up with a name for it! i was hoping to do something like "pillows4patients" but there already is one for that, but i like the ___4____ type of name. i was thinking cuddles4kids orr cuddles4patients but i am not really sure. can you help me think of a name please? I am struggling so much with this! it does not have to be a ____4____ type of name, i am open to any other suggestions. thank you so much in advance!
i'm serious, people...
okay, um...you stupid people dont seem to understand that im just trying to help other people....
go away if you cant really help me.


I am thinking abotu starting my own nonprofit organization for cancer patients. My idea was to make pillows for the patients, and to call it PillowsForPatients, however that is taken. But then, I thought of also making decorated journals, chemo hats, and stuffed animals for them too. Can you help me come up with a name? I want it to be something that flows...like PillowsForPatients would. Thank you so much!


So far, I've found information stating that the main difference between banks and credit unions have to do with ownership and profit/nonprofit status. However, I have been unable to find out the answer to a more specific question I have regarding the nature of credit unions and their banking operations. Any help in answering my questions would be greatly appreciated.

I am trying to figure out whether credit unions engage in fractionalization in the same manner that regular banks do. I already understand that conventional banks fractionalize their deposits by creating the vast majority of their funds "essentially out of thin air," by there being both existing demand for any loan that would create the funds for the borrower, and by the bank having that relationship/interaction with the federal reserve that allows them to create this money in this way, as depicted in the Federal Reserve document Modern Money Mechanics. These banks are essentially "a part of that system."

My question is whether "nonprofit," "local," "nonpublic" credit unions also actually engage in the same fractionalization practices. Do credit unions have the same relationship with the Federal Reserve as conventional banks do? In other words, are they a part of the same system? Despite initial deposits being made in theory by the collective pool of members of any given credit union, does the institution then work with the Fed to create additional funds equal to about 9 times the amount in deposit? If a customer receives loans from both a credit union and a conventional bank, what are the differences in origination of the funds, if any?


I want to incorporate as 501(c)(3) nonprofit intended to raise money for a speicific medical condition. If i raise money can I distibute funds/ make grants to speicfic individual doctors or research organizations and still retain my 501(c)(3) status. Any advice would be greatly appriciated!!


I am an RA on campus and I would like to show on November 5th, the movie "V for Vendetta" to my residents. I want my program to consist of an educational discussion about the 1605 Gunpowder Plot, leading into a discussion about government and the citizens role in policy, decision making, and "overthrowing" a government. This of course followed by me presenting the movie "V for Vendetta" to the residents who attended.

I am aware of the Fair Use guidelines but I am not sure if I actually meet them or not.
1) Purpose and Character of the Use: This is both nonprofit and educational.
2) The Nature of the Copyrighted Work: It is a movie. However it is not purely factual and scientific.
3) Amount and Substantially of the Portion Used: I plan to show the full length of the movie; highlighting cause and effect patterns, movement from compliance to anger of the government, historical facts listed within the movie, etc.
4) Effect on the Potential Market for or Value of the Work: None what so ever. The students who will be attending my program will be viewing a movie which is not currently playing in theaters, and which has been on T.V. multiple times. If anything it may encourage people who enjoy the movie to go out and buy a copy.

What do you guys think?


CAIR Spent $160,000 to Silence Savage New book Reveals
Memos Behind Campaign to Run Radio Star Off the Air



Posted: October 14, 2009
9:00 am Eastern
By Art Moore
A� 2009 WorldNetDaily


(San Francisco Chronicle)
Michael Savage
An explosive new book based on a daring six-month undercover operation exposing the subversive agenda of the Council on American-Islamic Relations reveals the Muslim group spent $160,000 in an unsuccessful effort to run top-rated nationally syndicated radio host Michael Savage off the air.

Internal CAIR documents uncovered in "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America" show that despite its high cost and the continued success of Savage's show, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad believed the campaign was "worth every penny," because, he says, the radio star lost at least $1 million in advertising
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Authors P. David Gaubatz and Paul Sperry recount how CAIR ran out of money before it could crack Savage's most loyal sponsors.

As WND reported, Savage sued CAIR in December 2007, two months after the Muslim lobby group began urging "people of all faiths" to contact Savage's advertisers to protest "anti-Muslim bigotry" on the air. CAIR cited Savage calling the Quran "a throwback document" and "a book of hate" and demanding CAIR be thrown out of the country for promulgating it.

Savage's copyright infringement and RICO lawsuit alleged CAIR illegally published singled-out quotes and audio excerpts from the show regarding Islam, misappropriated his words and used the clips for its own fundraising purposes, damaging the value of his copyrighted material. Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the case, determining CAIR had a legal right to use excerpts of a public broadcast for purposes of comment and criticism. But Illston ruled in Savage's favor when CAIR attempted to extract attorneys fees. Savage declared Illston's November 2008 decision a "huge victory for me, personally, but also for the rest of America who is afraid of this lawsuit-happy group of intimidators."

In their new book, Gaubatz, a counter-terrorism investigator and former federal agent with vast experience in the Middle East, and Sperry, a veteran reporter on the war on terror and author of "Infiltration," document CAIR's role as a U.S. front for the Muslim Brotherhood's plan to transform America into an Islamic nation under the authority of the Quran.

In a chapter titled "Blackmailing Corporate America," the authors show how CAIR tries to intimidate major corporations and media figures, such as Savage.

An internal memo a�� one of thousands of pages extracted by Gaubatz's son Chris, who posed as a Muslim convert and became a CAIR intern for six months a�� showed CAIR considered broadening its campaign against Savage.

The effort against the talk-radio star included formation of a nonprofit called Hate Hurts America, which published on its website lists of advertisers along with contact information.

A CAIR staffer wrote in an internal memo that the "idea behind Hate Hurts America is great and has the potential to go far. However, I feel that if you want to continue with HHA and not lose momentum, the campaign needs to expand beyond Michael Savage to other bigoted talk show hosts."

The report noted that it's much easier to get the attention of large corporations rather than small firms or franchises, because large corporations like AT&T have a reputation at stake and "don't want to be associated with anything that might seem controversial."

The CAIR memo said, however, companies that are endorsed or directly promoted by Savage on the air, such as Life Lock or Swiss America, are "an absolute no" for targeting.

"They are loyal to Savage and there is a chance they might sue," the memo said.

False figure

As WND reported, the British government apparently seized on campaigns against Savage by CAIR and others when it used his name to provide "balance" to a "least wanted list" dominated by Muslim extremists. Savage's ban from entry to the U.K. prompted an invitation from the Cambridge Union to debate political correctness via a video link, but the society canceled his appearance, scheduled for tomorrow, citing "legal issues" among other problems.

The chapter in "Muslim Mafia" covering Savage's ordeal with CAIR also shows how the Islamic group has tried to intimidate Hollywood and companies such as Nike, Bank of America and US Airways by citing a false figure of 7 million American Muslims who are ready and willing to boycott their services.

Despite widespread use of the figure in media, propagated by CAIR and others, the Pew Research Center recently estimated the American-Muslim population to be only about 2.35 million.

The book also reveals CAIR recently has teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union to consolidate resources on
mc93433 is another coward that will not allow a direct response so here it is in the clear:

mc93433 I'm SO grateful that you have such keen wit and great analytical skills to help straighten me out.

I am thankful. Thank you.


Please help me out with this problem!!

An ISP offers three subscription packages to its customers, plus a discount for nonprofit organizations:

Package A 10 hours of access for $9.95 per month. Additional hours are $2/hour. Package B 20 hours of access for $14.95 per month. Additional hours are $1/hour. Package C Unlimited access for $19.95 per month. Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations receive a 20% discount on all packages.

I need to write a program that will allow the user to enter a package (A, B, or C), nonprofit status (true/false, y/n, etc), and the total number of hours used. The program should then compute and
display the total charges factoring in any additional hours of access and nonprofit status.


THIS IS WHAT I've DONE SO FAR (after making 3 radio buttons, 2 checkboxes):

Private Sub btnCompute_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCompute.Click
Dim monthlyCostA, hourCostA, extraCostA, totalCostA As Double
Dim monthlyCostB, hourCostB, extraCostB, totalCostB As Double
Dim fmtStr As String = "{0, -10}{1, 15:C2}" 'Text position is fixed and a currency sign is introduced'

If RadioButton1.Checked = True Then

hourCostA = CDbl(txtHour.Text)
If CDbl(txtHour.Text) <= 10 Then
hourCostA = 9.95
monthlyCostA = 9.95 * 10
extraCostA = 0
totalCostA = monthlyCostA + 0
Else
monthlyCostA = 9.95 * CDbl(txtHour.Text)
extraCostA = (CDbl(txtHour.Text) - 10) * 2
totalCostA = monthlyCostA + extraCostA
End If
ElseIf RadioButton2.Checked = True Then

hourCostB = CDbl(txtHour.Text)
If CDbl(txtHour.Text) <= 20 Then
hourCostB = 14.95
monthlyCostB = 14.95 * 20
extraCostB = 0
totalCostB = monthlyCostB + 0
Else
monthlyCostB = 14.95 * CDbl(txtHour.Text)
extraCostB = (CDbl(txtHour.Text) - 20) * 2
totalCostB = monthlyCostB + extraCostB
End If
End If
'Calculation Results will be showed in the Listbox'
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Detail", "Cost"))
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "--------------------------", "--------------------"))
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Base Usage Cost", monthlyCostA))
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Extra Usage Cost", extraCostA))
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Total Usage Cost", totalCostA))



End Sub


I am a founder of a nonprofit that is 1 year old. I use my own money to keep the organization running for a year, does that count as donations for tax purpose on my personal tax?


help?
I was excited to read about the Assistant Program Coordinator job opening with your organization. I have several years of experience working in a variety of fields including nonprofit organizations and mental health field.

For the past five years, I have worked as a case manager and counselor for children and families from diverse backgrounds. My main job tasks included providing one to one counseling and resource referrals to help them with family stabilization and self-efficiency. I am committed to serving the needs of my clients and community.

In addition, to my extensive mental health experience, I also have strong communication, office, and administration skills. I currently work for a nonprofit organization in an administration role. I provide assistance to multiple departments. My main responsibilities included compiling information and preparing monthly and quarterly reports for departments. During my time with the organization, I was awarded with the Change Leader Award by diligently serving the needs of my clients. I believe that my knowledge with community resources, leadership abilities, and fluency in Spanish would make me a good asset for your organization.

I look forward to hearing from you soon so that I can further discuss with your organization in a interview how my skills and qualifications match your requirements. Thank you for consideration of this position.

Sincerely,

Rebekkah Williams


I'm the co-chair of a student-run organization called "Performers for Progress." We have a website, and we'd like to add the possibility of "online donations" to the site. Does Paypal offer a free way for people to donate? We don't have a tax-exempt status because we're so small and it takes forever to file non-profit status.

How can I set up a free Paypal donation button (or similar) on my site?


Ugandan refugee turns hotel soap to hope

Nearly two decades after he arrived in this country, Ugandan Derreck Kayongo is still bowled over by one subtle display of American wealth: the endless array of soaps available in stores.
In his African homeland, the cost of soap is out of reach for many, often with tragic consequences. In 2004, the World Health Organization found roughly 15 percent of deaths among Ugandan children under age 5 resulted from diarrheal diseases, many of which could be prevented through hand sanitation.
Now America's bountiful soap bars have prompted Kayongo to launch the Global Soap Project, an effort to help his country's poorest - one used bar of hotel soap at a time.
An Atlanta-based anti-poverty advocate, Kayongo has collected several tons of lightly used soap bars under a plan to melt them down, sterilize them and reshape the soap for shipment to refugees in Uganda to help curb disease.
For Uganda's destitute, soap is a luxury. "Most people find it very hard to spend money on something like soap which could actually help them prevent diseases," Kayongo said. A bar of soap can run 500 Ugandan shillings - about 10 American cents - on a continent where many refugees have a dollar to live on daily.
Cleaning up with used soap sounds, well, dirty.
But Kayongo said soaps will be separated by hotel brand and gently washed to remove makeup and other surface dirt. Next, bars will go into a high-temperature oven where they will melt and transform into a soapy, sterile, slurry. Kayongo said the mixture will go into molds to harden and emerge as large bars of soap. "All it needs is just cleaning and re-melting and remolding," he said.
Soap for charity
Each day, in millions of American hotel rooms, the cleaning staff replaces soap and other toiletries.
Patrick Maher, a consultant to the American Hotel & Lodging Association, said hotels usually throw away used soap. But he said nonprofits have begun stepping up to recycle soap for charitable purposes.
"It's one of the new things this year," Maher said.
One such charity, Florida-based Clean the World, says it has collected about 17,000 pounds of used soap since February for distribution in impoverished countries worldwide.
For the Global Soap Project, Kayongo says he has gathered 10,000 pounds of used hotel soap from 60 hotels in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee. Hotels collect lightly used bars which they place in bins. One of Kayongo's 10 volunteers takes the bars to a donated warehouse near Atlanta that he's using.
Kayongo's own family had once thrived off his father's business making soaps and running a printing press in Uganda. But Kayongo said they went from being members of the middle class to refugees, losing everything under the harsh rule of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
The family fled to Kenya, where Kayongo said life without basics became the norm.
Now Kayongo wants to give other refugees a small item that can make a big difference. He plans to send off his first shipment in late October.
Kayongo, a senior advocacy field coordinator for CARE International, has committed about $5,000 of his own money toward the $13,000 cost to send the soap and is seeking donations to make up the rest. CARE International, a global anti-poverty group, is not sponsoring the project.
The luxury of soap
Since June, just one Ritz-Carlton hotel in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood has turned over 3,000 pounds of soap which otherwise would have gone into the trash.
"When I heard Derreck speak about it, I thought it sounded really easy and why haven't we been doing this all along?" said Olivia Brown, a manager at the hotel.
Kayongo got the idea back in the mid '90s. He'd recently arrived in America and when he settled into his hotel, Kayongo was surprised to find packages of soap.
He used the bars, but was confused the next day when he found they'd been replaced.
"This went on for two or three days," said Kayongo, who finally called his father back in Africa and chuckled about it.
The men talked about how the soap could be melted down and reused. Kayongo sat on the idea for a few years, until his father recently brought it back up.
"If you live on a dollar a day," Kayongo said, "what are the chances you spend even one cent of that dollar on buying a luxury like soap?"


I work for a nonprofit that is attempting to garner publicity by distributing press releases. We have circulated press releases about our career fairs, small business loans, and other topics, but have yet to receive a response from the media.

We usually approach this by sending emails to the editors of local news publications. We always confirm that it's ok to send press releases to the contacts we find online. --- But they don't respond.

Is there a certain way to distribute press releases that might bring us more success? We can't afford PR Newswire or BusinessWire right now, so we're trying to do this as inexpensively as possible.

For the record, we've also used FreePressRelease.com and PR.com.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may be able to provide.


This is a charity or nonprofit that will focus on holding tournaments and events for gamers on internet or gaming platforms (I.E. WoW, Xbox LIVE, etc.) which have an entrance fee, and all proceeds go to the chosen charity. We have already had a venture like this that got a good $2000 bucks for charity... So I am sure it will work.

The name is lesserthanthree.org. Lesser-Than-Three. That is a play on words of the internet meme of using "<3" in text-messaging or IM'ing language for a heart, which of course goes hand in hand with charities.

Eh? Eh? Eh?
Critiques? Better Ideas? Thanks!





Lockerby Bomber in comfort as he waits to die?

Thanks Obama...............


You see there signs everywhere when in town on the side of city roadways. Lions Club, Masons, Moose Lodge, How do other nonprofits go about doing the same.


I am trying to find specific defintion of a nonprofit or charity in oregon


Say you had to choose between one of them.
Either a trillion dollar subsidy of the insurance industry or a public option for the uninsured that is nonprofit, and is funded independently by those who sign up for it. Which would you rather go for?
Hmm such a decision. Do you go with running the country into debt so that you can bow before the corporate masters as Baucus wants to do or do you choose the fiscally conservative alternative and go with the public option which wouldn't cost anything?
Oh enormous you're so right. Health care isn't an issue at all. Things are fine the way they are. We'll just let the ER be the primary care physician for the uninsured. It's so much more convenient and cost effective that way!
Mopar, whichever bill finally comes out of Harry Reid's meat grinder, it is likely to include tort reform and a broader marketplace for consumers to purchase a plan from other regions. Both were mentioned in Obama's speech to the joint session of congress. They'll contribute to lowering prices, but they won't be as effective as........
a public option.
Mopar, they can write the legislation so that the public option isn't able to "dip into tax money". By getting profit and corporate overhead out of the picture, the public option would be able to reduce prices enough to keep private insurance honest but not so much that it would make private insurance costs prohibitive.


I am writing thank you notes to businesses who donated baskets to our nonprofit silent auction. If no one bid on their items, how do I word the thank you note? I need to let them know we appreciate their donation, but to not expect anyone to use the services they offered in their basket. Any suggestions?
The services included photography and legal counsel.


"Democrats split over whether to create a government-run alternative to private health insurance or set up a system of co-ops, nonprofit member-run insurance companies." can someone explain this to me???