Attorney General gives tips on giving to charitable organizations during ...
Fontana Herald-NewsNovember 30, 2011
The data is included in the California Department of Justice's Annual Report of Commercial Fundraisers, produced by the Charitable Trusts Section. "The data in this report allows donors to make informed choices this holiday season," Harris said. ...more »
Ogier | Jersey continues to enhance its Trusts Law
Linex Legal (press release) (registration)November 30, 2011
They have proved popular as an alternative to the charitable trust for the purpose of holding corporate entities such as private trust or private protector companies. The accepted view in respect of these trusts was that the purpose needed to be ...more »
Wonkbook: The payroll tax cut will be extended. But what about unemployment ...
Washington Post (blog)November 30, 2011
Well, unemployment insurance has nothing to do with Social Security's trust fund. Sen. Jim DeMint agrees that the payroll tax cut isn't a perfect tax cut, but says, "I just don't think it's a good time to raise any taxes." But what raising taxes does ...more »
Dame Hilary Blume: Do Christmas cards do as much for charity as you think?
ScotsmanNovember 30, 2011
The retailers have stolen the charity Christmas market away from the charities. Each year the Charities Advisory Trust (CAT) surveys high street retailers, to see who is using charity to help boost sales, but actually giving very little to charity. ...more »
HMRC consults on applying new definitions of 'charity' to tax relief
Civil Society MediaNovember 30, 2011
Currently, the definition of “charity”, “charitable company and “charitable trust” only applies to gift aid. Through the proposed change, which will be made under schedule 6 in the Finance Act 2010, HMRC hopes to protect itself from non-compliance and ...more »
STATE: Attorney general releases report on commercial fundraising campaigns
Lake County NewsNovember 30, 2011
On Tuesday California Attorney General Kamala Harris released the California Department of Justice's Annual Report of Commercial Fundraisers, produced by the Charitable Trusts Section. The report showed that commercial fundraisers in California raised ...more »
Former Minister Pongalur Palanisamys House Raid
IBNLive.comNovember 30, 2011
Besides Palanisamy's residence, offices of three private companies owned by him and his family — Maris Cements Limited, The Nilgiris Cements and Vijaya Minerals — and the Vijayalakshmi Palanisamy Charitable Trust, were raided. ...more »
Some Thoughts for the Shopping Season
New York TimesNovember 30, 2011
In a report on safe checking earlier this year, The Pew Charitable Trusts found that the 10 largest banks reserved the right to reorder debit card transactions and process the largest withdrawals first. That will drain an account more quickly and could ...more »
Giving Where It Works
New York Times (blog)November 30, 2011
Life is always precarious for programs that depend on government financing or charitable donations, particularly so today. So we choose many of the programs we highlight because they have found a creative new way to sustain good work, often through ...more »
This just in from the state Attorney General's office
SignalNovember 30, 2011
The data is included in the California Department of Justice's Annual Report of Commercial Fundraisers, produced by the Charitable Trusts Section. "The data in this report allows donors to make informed choices this holiday season," Attorney General ...more »
Michael Jackson Doctor Receives 4-Year Sentence
NBC Los AngelesNovember 29, 2011
He was described as a self-made man who was active in charitable work. "I wonder to what extent the court considers the entirety of a man's book of life as opposed to just one chapter," defense attorney Ed Chernoff said Tuesday. ...more »
Tackling poverty from grassroots
Lancashire Evening PostNovember 29, 2011
Razina Bargit, project co-ordinator from 1st Ethical Charitable Trust which works across Lancashire, says: “Charity has a great standing within Islam. Zakah is a contribution paid once a year on savings of 2.5%, given to cleanse money and possessions ...more »
Trustees angry with OSCR's threat
Shetland NewsNovember 29, 2011
However an OSCR spokeswoman said two of the three options in the proposed referendum are against charity law and therefore it would be a waste of charitable funds. OSCR has lost patience with the trust after three years of discussion on how to remove ...more »
If We End Corporate Personhood We Can Define the Terms of a New Economy
truthoutNovember 29, 2011
Although the value of this instrumentality in commerce and industry was fully recognized, incorporation for business was commonly denied long after it had been freely granted for religious, educational, and charitable purposes. ...more »
Obama Justice Department Accused of Ignoring Law Against Fraudulent Voting
The Pelican PostNovember 29, 2011
Some of the major financial backers supporting the “vote fraud denier industry” are George Soros's Open Society Institute, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and Pew Charitable Trusts, according to “Injustice. ...more »
