The great tax escape that is America's nonprofit sector | FT Alphaville - 2 views
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it turns out that the way the wealthy decide how to distribute cash is often even less fair than the way the state decides how to spend it.
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More than half of the highly conspicuous donations of the ultra-rich were injected directly into the endowments of their already rich alma maters. Much of the rest was given to hushed museums in the form of very expensive donated art, or to other places that rich old people tend to congregate, like cultural arts centers and high-end hospitals. In other words, the funds the rich were giving went largely to institutions that tended to the needs and prerogatives of the rich and privileged.
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The Cost of "Free": Admission Fees at American Art Museums - 0 views
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Museum theorists such as Elaine Heumann Gurian point out that admission fees may be the single biggest obstacle preventing museums from fulfilling their missions as educational institutions that are open and accessible to the widest range of visitors from all income levels and backgrounds. But is the financial position of most art museums so precarious that the 5 percent of operating budget provided by admissions fees is indispensable to the survival of the institution? Is there a middle ground between free admission and a standard entrance fee?
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Potential visitors—especially families with children—are often concerned about the financial costs associated with a museum visit, such as transportation, parking and lunch. As the costs have risen, visitors expect greater value for their admission dollars.
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Many of us have visited museums and seen the words “suggested donation” or “recommended amount” next to the admission fees. The actual amount collected per visitor is often significantly lower than the suggested amount
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in this wager against the future, austerity is partly a moral calculus. For funds can grow with compound interest, but so too can ideas.”
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“If (universities’) goal is to continue into the deep future, then spending more now could better prop up the university’s scholarship-driven mission than hoarding in strict deference to the dollar,” Bernard wrote. “The example of graduate funding illustrates how,
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Interesting and informative article. Thanks. Endowments can be very helpful. But the nonprofit and should set it up only after a careful conversation and a joint agreement. It so happened that I'm currently writing an essay on the topic. I should say, this source https://writinguniverse.com/free-essay-examples/crime/ includes a lot of useful info, so it helped me. Turning back to endowments, it is important to keep in mind that they are invested in perpetuity and that endowment life insurance policies do not have investment risk or interest rate risk.
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A Texas superintendent ordered school librarians to remove LGBTQ books. Now the federal... - 0 views
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The U.S. Education Department’s civil rights enforcement arm has launched an investigation into a North Texas school district whose superintendent was secretly recorded ordering librarians to remove LGBTQ-themed library books.
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accused the district of violating a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender. The ACLU complaint was based largely on an investigation published in March by NBC News, ProPublica and the Tribune that revealed that Granbury’s superintendent, Jeremy Glenn, instructed librarians to remove books dealing with sexual orientation and people who are transgender.
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An Education Department spokesperson confirmed the investigation and said it was related to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits schools from discriminating on the basis of sex, gender and sexual orientation.
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