charities

Finding "Common Ground": So Close to Cy-Pres

March 05, 2010 06:04

Mr. Justice Brown recently considered whether to apply the doctrine of cy-pres in the matter of The Bank of Nova Scotia Trust Company v. Common Ground Women’s Centre, CanLII 2010 ONSC 63. (The doctrine of cy-pres is discussed in Megan Connolly’s blog, here.) In Common Ground, the...

Filing of accounts and annual returns at the Charity Commission

wendybambrick@mercerhole.co.uk
March 03, 2010 09:00

Charities have ten months from the end of the financial year to send their Accounts and Annual Return to the Charity Commission.

Connecting with donors

wendybambrick@mercerhole.co.uk
February 25, 2010 10:06

The Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) has published a report entitled, 'How to Connect with Donors'. It has found that sophisticated donors want charities to demonstrate their effectiveness and to adopt new forms of communication.

Gift Aid reform

wendybambrick@mercerhole.co.uk
February 18, 2010 10:35

The Government has given charities and donors a relatively short deadline in which to make their views known on how the Gift Aid regime might be changed.

Another Revisit to Madoff and His Charity Stakeholders - Hadassah and Yeshiva University: Now A Perplexing Tale of Three Forms 990 - Part II - Installment 23

February 14, 2010 17:36

This is the twenty-third in a series of installments on this blog that are discussing issues arising in the aftermath of the long global Ponzi scheme of Bernard L. Madoff (“Madoff”). Installments 3 through 8, Installment 10 and Installments 14 through 22 of this series focused on...