Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually...
I can’t tell you how many times I hear consultants or financial planners talk boldly about charitable lead trusts (“lead trusts” or “CLTs”). In fact, I have heard of consultants telling starry eyed clients how lead trusts are going to play a “big role” in their upcoming campaign. Even going so far as to suggest that you can count...
Here are the results from the poll this week on the Charitable Extension Proposal (that passed the House) which will give donors until April 15 to get their tax deductible gifts in for the previous year. And, the positives win! Click the image for a closer look at the results! Seeing the responses (20 on...
The headline of this post could have been: “The House passed the “America Gives More Act of 2014” (H.R. 4719) on July 17, with a bipartisan majority vote of 277-130” (from a Forbes article). But it wasn’t. I have been monitoring legislation impacting the nonprofit fundraising programs for long enough to know that passing one...

Why Lead Trusts are so rare