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Setting Rules for Your Silent Auction: 5 Tips

Achieve

Setting rules or guidelines for your silent auction can save you a lot of trouble. The best place to start when developing effective guidelines for your auction is your organization’s past events. One of the most basic yet essential guidelines you need to set for your silent auction is a clear opening and closing time.

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Tax Time Coming Up - UBIT Guidelines for 501(c) Organizations

Association Law

Tax Time Coming Up - UBIT Guidelines for 501(c) Organizations. You can find detailed information by clicking here for official IRS documentation IRS guidelines on UBIT, revised March 2009. Associate member dues revenues, provided the associate member category has a genuine purpose other than producing income. Search This Blog.

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Study: Nonprofits That Follow BBB Standards Raise More Money

Associations Now

Charities and nonprofits looking to boost their fundraising efforts would do well to follow accountability guidelines from the Better Business Bureau, research shows. Specifically, the research by professor Greg Chen of the City University of New York’s Baruch College looked at charities’ records from the years between 2006 and 2011.

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Your association website probably isn’t accessible — but should be

Association Success

While not legally binding, Japan has developed its own accessibility guidelines. . A World Health Organization study in 2011 pegged the number at about 15 percent. . The World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which McKee’s company follows, and are considered a global standard, offers clear design strategies.

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Mizz Information: What Does a Washington Post Blogger Resigning.

Mizz Information

Print ad revenue is down and continuing to diminish, while online ad spend is up and projected to continue to rise. December 2011 (4). November 2011 (8). October 2011 (2). September 2011 (8). August 2011 (7). July 2011 (6). June 2011 (7). May 2011 (4). April 2011 (4).

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SCD Group: Readings of the Week: 6 stories for Busy Association.

SCD Group

If you want to steal a childs love of a topic, make it mandatory for them to follow precise guidelines of what they have to know and what is irrelevant. Reinventing membership as a revenue tool for assoc. ► 2011. (42). Support the need for autonomy. Readings of the Week: 7 Reads for Association Lead. ► April. (22).

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How the Mighty Fall - Associations at Risk - Part 2 of 5

Association Subculture

Non-dues Program Proliferation – If a little non-dues revenue is good, more is better right? Beware of leaders who become obsessed with non-dues revenue programs as a way to generate additional income. ► 2011. (27). Not necessarily. Twitter Chitter Chatter. Oldies but Goodies. ► 2012. (23). ► July. (3).