- The Internal Revenue Service was wrong to give small charities a reprieve for missing a deadline to file a new online tax form, argues Jack Siegel, a lawyer who writes the Charity Governance blog. The IRS “should have played hardball in the name of the administrative efficiency that Congress sought,” he argues.
- In a blog post about how to persuade trustees to raise money, Mohan Sikka, senior project director of the Community Resource Exchange, in New York, says that good board members care about a charity’s executive director and helping the leader succeed.
- The staff of New Philanthropy Capital, a charity-evaluation group in Britain, is writing a series of blog posts that make recommendations to Nick Hurd, the new British charities minister.
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One Response to An Argument for Not Giving Small Charities an IRS Paperwork Break; Plus More: Thursday’s Roundup
ppcllc - May 20, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Siegel is 100% right, though his reasons are disingenuously PC. Many small charities exist to provide makework for staff and/or volunteers, and provide little or no benefit to the community or society.This has been a particular frustration to me, as I live in an affluent community with several such organizations that siphon funds which could otherwise be constructively used by truly worthy community groups.