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The rise and fall of the False Memory Syndrome Foundation (2020)
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The US pepper that was nearly lost
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Core Internet – what sites and services should we permanently preserve?
Looking ahead, the commodification and degradation of the Internet is continuing to take away digital resources that we have come to depend upon over the last 20 years. Whether it’s email or...
Looking ahead, the commodification and degradation of the Internet is continuing to take away digital resources that we have come to depend upon over the last 20 years. Whether it’s email or Amazon or YouTube, the decline of all our favorites has been well documented.
But we don’t want to live without these sites and services. Tildes itself is an attempt to preserve one such resource but in a better and more stable way. What other parts of the Internet deserve similar treatment?
Whether it’s open source eBay or community banking or nonprofit versions of Facebook… what would you choose and how would you go about preserving its character and making it workable in the long-term?
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Charity for profit: Brandfluence/Softgiving, the marketing agency behind some of Twitch's most successful fundraising streams quietly collected 42% of donations
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The Open Hand Foundation, founded in part by Jirard Khalil (The Completionist) has been keeping and storing donations for ten years
21 votes -
The $10 billion charity no one has heard of | The SDG Impact Fund grew from $238 million in 2020 to $10 billion in 2021... which seems to have been fueled by cryptocurrencies and digital art assets
13 votes -
OpenAI governance dispute megathread
I guess we’re going to keep talking about this, and I have a link that didn’t go in any existing topics.
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On nonprofit news, funding, operations and success over time
5 votes -
Inside OpenAI, a rift between billionaires and altruistic researchers unravelled over the future of artificial intelligence
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How meltdowns brought professional advocacy groups to a standstill at a critical moment (2022)
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Site Zero recycling plant in the city of Motala should double the amount of plastic packaging being recycled in Sweden
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Brainstorming - Is it a good idea and if yes, when will be a good time, to publicly promote the concept of nonprofit and small scale social media - an what would be good methods/strategies
Every nonprofit organization I have ever worked with does some form of publicity/public relations to support their mission. Many have speakers bureaus of volunteers who give talks about what the...
Every nonprofit organization I have ever worked with does some form of publicity/public relations to support their mission. Many have speakers bureaus of volunteers who give talks about what the organization is doing. Many work to get articles written about their mission and efforts.
I think more could be done to remind people and inform people of a few things about nonprofit and small scale internet sites. For example that the early internet was centered around universities not corporations and marketing, that news organizations such as NPR and the BBC provide a valuable counter perspective to corporate news organizations, that nonprofit sites including Lemmy and Kbin and Mastadon and Tildes exist, to remind people that you can add forum or blog to a search to find small scale content and more. The point would be to make the case publicly that nonprofit and small scale internet sites 1. are still possible and viable, 2. already exist (insert several examples) 3. and and should form part of a strategy to resist corporate monopolies/dominance and create more diverse conversations and communities online.
What are your thoughts? I'm curious about timing, (will there be a better future time?) about possible methods and strategies and about whether this is something some members here want to think about.
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This Obamacare disaster had a surprising turnaround
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Sanna Marin joins Tony Blair Institute – former Finnish PM will advise political leaders in her new role
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Twitter threatens legal action against US nonprofit that tracks hate speech
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American theater is imploding before our eyes
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Movement narcissism: A warning and a guide
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US states scrutinize the amount of charity spending from nonprofit hospitals in light of high salaries and large tax breaks
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nonprofit-hospitals-tax-breaks-community-benefit/ POTTSTOWN, Pa. — The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly...
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/nonprofit-hospitals-tax-breaks-community-benefit/
POTTSTOWN, Pa. — The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly purchased, was converted to a tax-exempt nonprofit entity.
The takeover by Tower Health meant the 219-bed Pottstown Hospital no longer had to pay federal and state taxes. It also no longer had to pay local property taxes, taking away more than $900,000 a year from the already underfunded Pottstown School District, school officials said.
The district, about an hour’s drive from Philadelphia, had no choice but to trim expenses. It cut teacher aide positions and eliminated middle school foreign language classes.
“We have less curriculum, less coaches, less transportation,” said Superintendent Stephen Rodriguez.
The school system appealed Pottstown Hospital’s new nonprofit status, and earlier this year a state court struck down the facility’s property tax break. It cited the “eye-popping” compensation for multiple Tower Health executives as contrary to how Pennsylvania law defines a charity.
The court decision, which Tower Health is appealing, stunned the nonprofit hospital industry, which includes roughly 3,000 nongovernment tax-exempt hospitals nationwide.
“The ruling sent a warning shot to all nonprofit hospitals, highlighting that their state and local tax exemptions, which are often greater than their federal income tax exemptions, can be challenged by state and local courts,” said Ge Bai, a health policy expert at Johns Hopkins University.
The Pottstown case reflects the growing scrutiny of how much the nation’s nonprofit hospitals spend — and on what — to justify billions in state and federal tax breaks. In exchange for these savings, hospitals are supposed to provide community benefits, like care for those who can’t afford it and free health screenings.
More than a dozen states have considered or passed legislation to better define charity care, to increase transparency about the benefits hospitals provide, or, in some cases, to set minimum financial thresholds for charitable help to their communities.
The growing interest in how tax-exempt hospitals operate — from lawmakers, the public, and the media — has coincided with a stubborn increase in consumers’ medical debt. KFF Health News reported last year that more than 100 million Americans are saddled with medical bills they can’t pay, and has documented aggressive bill-collection practices by hospitals, many of them nonprofits.
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Nonprofit trust buying Press Herald, other Maine newspapers in landmark deal
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Near Dayton, Ohio there's a lookalike of the Wright Brothers' Model B, a 1910 aircraft with no cockpit. It's a modern plane with a very old design, and I went for a ride.
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Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint – coming more than four years after a complaint was lodged by noyb
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This nonprofit health system cuts off US patients with medical debt
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#MeToo, five years later: Why Time’s Up imploded
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"LGB Alliance" found to violate UK nonprofit code
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Welcome To My Garden: A not-for-profit network of citizens offering free camping spots in their gardens to slow travelers. Appears to be primarily western Europe.
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Patagonia founder gives away the company to fight climate change
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Alexandria Search is a open source ad free nonprofit web search engine
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Non-profit endowment creation
Hi Friends, I'm in the (very) early stages of creating a financial endowment fund for a small non-profit community organization I help out with. I feel they're a good fit for such an investment...
Hi Friends,
I'm in the (very) early stages of creating a financial endowment fund for a small non-profit community organization I help out with. I feel they're a good fit for such an investment vehicle: their current revenue stream fluctuates a bit and many of their events rely heavily on attendance fees for funding, which is unrealistic when they attempt to cater to lower-income demographics. However, they have a relatively wealthy patronage that tends to remain involved for years or decades, and I believe they have the institutional stability to operate more complex financial instruments.
I pitched the idea of an endowment at a high level to the Chairwoman last week, and the Board is interested in moving forward. We haven't decided how exactly we want to structure the endowment yet: restricted endowment, quasi-endowment, etc. We also haven't determined exactly how much money we should fundraise for a principal investment, what our portfolio spread should look like, and how much of the annual interest we can afford to spend. (I have estimates, but they're not final.) I'm particularly interested in resources that can help the institution plan for inevitable economic downturns.
Has anyone here done this kind of work before? If so, would you be willing to chat about some of the nuances of organizing it, and/or do you have recommendations on reading material to help with the creation and maintenance of such a fund? We plan to receive consultations from an accountant and a lawyer, but I don't have much formal background in finance and would welcome any experience, advice, warnings, or external resources Tildesians can offer.
Thanks,
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Right-wing think tank Family Research Council, a staunch opponent of abortion and LGBTQ rights, joins growing list of activist groups seeking church status to shield themselves from financial scrutiny
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Nonprofit boards are weird
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Which are the most effective climate change nonprofits?
6 votes -
Mastodon is now a non-profit organization
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Free Geek Twin Cities: E-Waste and education
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NLnet Foundation open call for funding (NLnet funds open source projects)
6 votes -
Why Lichess will always be free
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Farms, feathers, and fins share water in California
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Engineer reports data leak to nonprofit, hears from the police
11 votes -
The internet’s most beloved fanfiction site is undergoing a reckoning
15 votes -
Helsinki rides the Slush wave toward a booming startup future – six venture capitalists share their thoughts on Finland's tech ecosystem
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For a $69/month fee, the nonprofit Safe Eats will help restaurants with coronavirus health guidelines and reassure customers. But so far, there’s no guarantee that members will follow the rules
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"The Black Lives Matter Foundation" raised millions. It's not affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement
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Making a home that’s affordable, for good
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It’s not ‘One Million’ — it’s One Meddling Mom
11 votes -
Andrew Yang’s new US non-profit is giving away $500,000 in free cash as a UBI experiment
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Climate change activist Greta Thunberg says she is trademarking her name and the #FridaysForFuture movement to stop people from impersonating her
11 votes -
Why impact-per-dollar is a terrible, harmful way to measure nonprofit effectiveness
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Firefox’s fight for the future of the web: With Google’s Chrome dominating the market, not-for-profit rival Mozilla is staking a comeback on its dedication to privacy
49 votes -
Unusual plan for disaster relief: just give survivors money
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I want to donate to a tree-planting non-profit. Do you recommend any?
So, I want to donate (every month) to a tree-planting non-profit. Is there any that you recommend? Since I am from europe, I would prefer an european non-profit.
19 votes