Please visit the Washington state Secretary of States’ Charities Program website. In an effort to improve their services to the donating public, they are asking YOU what is most important when YOU decide to donate to a charity. This is a short five question survey that also offers an opportunity to comment: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YdoUGive
Recently a Georgia based nonprofit fundraising in Tennessee was fined $45,000 in civil penalties. The following article from the Tennessee Attorney General, published on December 23, 2014, tells the story: A Civil Penalty Imposed Against Charitable Organization Over Misleading Fundraising A civil penalty of $45,000 has been imposed against NSPIRE Outreach, a Georgia-based organization also
Recently Clearly Compliant has had a string of clients and potential clients seeking assistance to “de-register” in specific states. It made me think of a saying I heard all too frequently from my Mom, “Sarah, your eyes are bigger than your stomach.” My Mom was an amazing cook who could turn mud into Mississippi Mud
New York has improved the process for requesting an extension to file charity registration annual financial reports. Now an organization can request either a 90 day extension or a 180 day extension, instead of two separate 90 day requests. Requests must be sent by email to charities.extensions@ag.ny.gov. Extension requests must contain the term of the extension, name
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs have recently been giving charity registration and professional fundraisers a lot of attention. Florida has the dubious honor of being home to 11 of the top 50 WORST charities according to the Center for Investigative Reporting; http://cironline.org/. The new legislation aims to “prevent the misuse of Floridians’