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I am on the board of directors at a subdivision in Illinois where we employee 1 part-time person year round (approx 17 hrs/wk) and 10 part-time seasonal workers (life guards and pool manager). As a non-profit organization, ...The board of directors is the governing body of a nonprofit and is legally accountable for its actions. Directors must oversee the accomplishment of the.... new board members for local nonprofit organizations. The program, called BoardServeNYC, is hoping to train 500 volunteers in nonprofit governance each year and then connect those volunteers with nonprofits seeking new directors. ...In addition, s/he will partner with the senior leadership team and the Board of Directors to develop and implement strategies across the organization. The Vice President of Finance will oversee all compliance and recognition for ...The Executive Director is accountable to the Board of Directors to ensure that SGA's activities remain true to the school's mission and core values of Ursuline education. Primary Responsibilities: a�? Communicates the school's faith-based ...Policy and Procedure, Board of Directors The Executive Director is supervised by Board of Directors and communicates regularly with the board concerning short and long term goals and objectives of the organization, participates in the ...Board of Directors consists of 10-15 professionals who are dedicated to preventing youth violence. The staff of 15, plus 30 youth leaders, share this same commitment and place a high value on their collegial work relationship and their ...NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) a�� The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has taken its last step, but a significant one, in its year-long transition to a permanent, independent nonprofit by naming its first board of directors, ...S/he should have at least 5 years of leadership experience, preferably in the nonprofit sector, and experience working with an active board of directors. Some familiarity with locally based development in Boston is desirable. ...It also provides support to local nonprofit organizations through the awarding of grants. The foundation is led by a local board of directors. The foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization through its affiliation with the Community ...
I am the person starting the nonprofit and was wondering if i can sit on the board of directors as well? I plan on being in charge of the daily operations as the executive officer. Should I be on the board and nominate myself as Executive officer?


I would really appreciate the script for a simple vertical flyout menu. I keep finding them for horizontal menus but I need vertical. It's going to be used as a menu for navigating the website for a nonprofit org. I don;t have any money to pay for one since were nonprofit. Any help would be most appreciated!

Version of the list:
Home
About
--> Board of Directors
--> Training Opportunities
How to help
-->Volunteer
-->Donate

etc...


I'm not talking about a job at the mall either. I went to school to study vocal performance, and have found myself now wandering around in the world of nonprofit. I deal with our board of directors and patrons all the time, and handle all of our company's events (organizing them, etc). Do you think dealing with our patrons and being in the public eye is a good back bone for getting an executive sales position? Or would it not be creative enough and would I hate it?


The local animal shelter is requesting a new washer & dryer because the ones they currently have no longer function. They want a consumer washer and dryer that holds extra load but the board of directors want to purchase a commercial washer and dryer. Which would benefit the nonprofit organization and why?


Note that the Board President was one of the founding members of the nonprofit corporation formed 10 years ago in the state of Indiana. The Board President acted as a co-director and was employed by the corporation. This nonprofit corporation is in the middle of dissolving and the Board President is promoting a new organization where he will be employed at. The new organization is still forming,also in the state of Indiana, has the same purpose and is working on becoming nonprofit. The new organization is most likely unaware of this promoting. I am wondering if there are legal issues here, as I am trying to determine if I want to become a member of the new organization.


I am in the beginning stages of creating a nonprofit organization. Any additional tips that you have would be greatly appreciated...Thank you :)


My husband had his license suspended for failure to pay speeding tickets. We've been out of work and just had trouble paying them. Today he drove our daughter to school then came back home. A half hour later, the sheriff knocks on our door, says he's seen husband driving and wonders what's up. He was up front and admitted to driving while suspended. The sheriff has taken him to jail.

The ONLY problem with this is that TONIGHT we have a major fundraising dinner and auction for our nonprofit housing ministry that helps homeowners that can't repair their homes. It was started by the people who started Habitat for Humanity and decided to go on their own in 2004. We're a local partner of this great organization and tonight is our whole life! It decides whether we can continue! If it was ANY OTHER DAY we'd take our lumps but TODAY we cannot spare our executive director.

We also can't let the community and board know what's going on. I am not sure if I have enough money to bail him out. He sees a judge today, the sheriff "thinks." I have not had a license in six years because of an accident at that time which, didn't seriously injure anyone but still bothers me as to how it could have turned out. And the cop who handled that accident and cited me only for running a stop sign died a couple of months later. I could have a license if I paid my fines but with the money we're putting into this ministry we don't really have that going for us either.

Would it be to our advantage to go down to the courthouse when I find out the court time and beg the judge to just let him out this time???
Thanks to all who answered! The judge let him go as he was already doing community service!!! Yay!
Thanks especially to Fred P. We have been ignoring our financial obligations pursuing our passions -- and our passions ARE for the good of others, but this was a definite wake up call that we need to take care of our own obligations first and we are working on making some changes. For the record, I have not been driving -- I get rides or walk or hitchhike.


Bruce is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Direct Marketing Association of Washington and currently serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Free Speech Foundation, an association that champions the rights of nonprofit organizations through legislative and legal action.

In addition to his professional responsibilities, Bruce serves as a Trustee of Joe Gibbs' Youth For Tomorrow New Life Foundation, as a board member of the CHARIS Institute and as Vice President of Time of Grace ministry. He also served four terms on the Board of Regents of Wisconsin Lutheran College. He has previously served as President of God's Word to the Nations Bible Society. Bruce gave the 1994 commencement address at Wisconsin Lutheran College and was given the 1994 Pro Gloria Dei Award at the commencement ceremony. In 2000 he received the Nehemiah award from Youth for Tomorrow.

A graduate of the University of Missouri, and a veteran, Bruce and his wife Kathi have two children, Elizabeth and Matthew.


Lets say someone is running a non-profit business that claims to be helping people by offering a safe place for people trying to recover from drug or alcohol addictions. In this case the person in question excepts donated cars, vehicles, and anything else that may be donated to him. This person also buys cars at auctions for resell, but he prefers to take donated cars so he can resell them .
He claims that the money earned by selling donated cars goes towards the running operations of the houses that the disabled people live in. BUT I lived in one of these houses for over 5 years and I have not once seen him use any car sell cash being used for the purpose of housing the residents. IN FACT, not only was he charging rent higher then most landlords, he also put 2 people in each room at $550 a piece. In total he collects $4400 in rent for one 5 bedroom house a month. He also made the laundry machines coin operated.
The house itself needs alot of work. Sometimes he would pay and fix things like plumbing or a broken water heater but most the time the residents would have to pay for certain repairs with promises of being paid back but he would never pay it back.
I also understand(maybe I'm wrong) but a non profit organization needs a board of directors. He claims to have a board of directors but the people on the board are not even real people.
Is there some organization I could call to have an investigation into this guy. He just recently illegally evicted me with no eviction notice and hes keeping my deposit with no written explanation.
I know hes using his car selling business as a cover for his shady business practices. There must be some kind of agency that investigates stuff like this.
Please help me find out. Im a very honest man and I hate to see people like this take advantage of people like me for thier own personal gain without actually returning some help back to us or our community.

Thanks much!!!!!


My name is John and a group of my peers and I have recently started a nonprofit organization (for community service and diversity/equality).

I want to contact Yahoo!a��a real person that can represent Yahoo! Customer Servicea��about what type of options (if any) they offer to nonprofit organizations.

Ideally, I want all the members of my board of directors to have a Yahoo! email account and I was wondering if Yahoo! offered any type of specialized packages to nonprofit identities as such.

Thank you for any information/answers you can share with me!

Appreciatively,
JC


CHICAGO a�� Federal authorities arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Tuesday on charges that he brazenly conspired to sell or trade the Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama to the highest bidder.

Blagojevich also was charged with illegally threatening to withhold state assistance to Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune, in the sale of Wrigley Field, according to a federal criminal complaint. In return for state assistance, Blagojevich allegedly wanted members of the paper's editorial board who had been critical of him fired.

A 76-page FBI affidavit said the 51-year-old Democratic governor was intercepted on court-authorized wiretaps over the last month conspiring to sell or trade the vacant Senate seat for personal benefits for himself and his wife, Patti.

Otherwise, Blagojevich considered appointing himself. The affidavit said that as late as Nov. 3, he told his deputy governor that if "they're not going to offer me anything of value I might as well take it."

"I'm going to keep this Senate option for me a real possibility, you know, and therefore I can drive a hard bargain," Blagojevich allegedly said later that day, according to the affidavit, which also quoted him as saying in a remark punctuated by profanity that the seat was "a valuable thing a�� you just don't give it away for nothing."

The affidavit said Blagojevich also discussed getting a substantial salary for himself at a nonprofit foundation or an organization affiliated with labor unions.

It said Blagojevich also talked about getting his wife placed on corporate boards where she might get $150,000 a year in director's fees.

He also allegedly discussed getting campaign funds for himself or possibly a post in the president's cabinet or an ambassadorship once he left the governor's office. He noted becoming a U.S. senator might remake his image for a possible presidential run in 2016, according to the affidavit. And he allegedly said a Senate seat would also provide him with corporate contacts if he needed a job and present an opportunity for his wife to work as a lobbyist.

"I want to make money," the affidavit quotes him as saying in one conversation.

The affidavit said Blagojevich expressed frustration at being "stuck" as governor and that he would have access to greater resources if he were indicted while in the U.S. Senate than while sitting as governor.

U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a statement that "the breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering."

"They allege that Blagojevich put a for sale sign on the naming of a United States senator," Fitzgerald said."

Among those being considered for the post include U.S. Reps. Danny Davis and Jesse Jackson Jr.

Blagojevich also was charged with using his authority as governor in an attempt to squeeze out campaign contributions.

His chief of staff, John Harris, also was arrested.

Corruption in the Blagojevich administration has been the focus of a federal investigation involving an alleged $7 million scheme aimed at squeezing kickbacks out of companies seeking business from the state. Federal prosecutors have acknowledged they're also investigating "serious allegations of endemic hiring fraud" under Blagojevich.

Political fundraiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko who raised money for the campaigns of both Blagojevich and Obama is awaiting sentencing after being convicted of fraud and other charges. Blagojevich's chief fundraiser, Christopher G. Kelly, is due to stand trial early next year on charges of obstructing the Internal Revenue Service.



Three of us formed a nonprofit corporation, and I am the president of the Board. The other two board members resigned one week after they signed the Articles Of Incorporation and the Bylaws. The state has already issued me a Certificate Of Incorporation, and all tax IDs and bank accounts have already been established. Do I have the right to continue building the organization myself without filling the vacant posts, or am I basically at a standstill until I find replacement board members?


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We are a nonprofit organization that is 30 years old. We have a Board of Directors. the Executive and Personnel Committees have been working together to hire a new Director. In the process, the office space needs to be rearranged. The old-time, mom-and-pop staff does not want to do it, they don't want any more Directors, and they will try to influence the Board to keep them happy and productive by voting their way. Can we just decide the office rearrangement in committee without taking it to a vote?
Our bylaws does not address this question. In our bylaws it states that any questions not addressed will follow parliamentary procedure.


I read Time mag and was impressed by the Cindy McCain article, wow, that woman is out to help the world. She walks the talk. But now, I can only find this about Michelle, and other than the Public Allies her other 'community and volunteer work' all seem tied to her JOB. Any links to what she does. She could be a 1st lady, and e need to know what she is up to too!! (and I do not like what I have read so far.) Here is a clip from what Public Allies and official Obama site. *****
Barack Obama was a founding member of the board of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife became executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies in 1993. Obama plans to use the nonprofit group, which he features on his campaign Web site, as the model for a national service corps. He calls his Orwellian program, "Universal Voluntary Public Service."
When they're not protesting, they're staffing AIDS clinics, handing out condoms, bailing criminals out of jail and helping illegal aliens and the homeless obtain food stamps and other welfare.
The Obamas discourage work in the private sector. "Don't go into corporate America," Michelle has exhorted youth. "Work for the community. Be social workers." Shun the "money culture," Barack added. "Individual salvation depends on collective salvation."
"If you commit to serving your community," he pledged in his Denver acceptance speech, "we will make sure you can afford a college education." So, go through government to go to college, and then go back into government.
"It's a lot of talk about race, a lot of talk about sexism, a lot of talk about homophobia, talk about -isms and phobias."
One of those -isms is "heterosexism," which a Public Allies training seminar in Chicago describes as a negative byproduct of "capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and male-dominated privilege."
The government now funds about half of Public Allies' expenses through Clinton's AmeriCorps. Obama wants to fully fund it and expand it into a national program that some see costing $500 billion. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the military, he said.


Directors, as such, may receive such compensation and be reimbursed for expenses of attendance at any meeting of the board as shall be determined by resolution of the board of directors. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to preclude any director from serving the corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefore.

Since I don't have much money to hire lawyer, I am searching for sample of bylaw for the nonprofit in california.


I started a poverty awareness group when I was 16. WE're starting to get big and wanting to start a non profit. However, I am still a minor, but my board of directors are all adults.....Is there any way to start a non profit with these?
The reason I want to start is to help better raise funds....with bank account and such


i am starting up a nonprofit organization in the usa and is wondering
1.can a board of director have a president and 2 vice presidents?
2. does the board of directors all need to resides in usa or can be anyone in any countries? there are 3 of us who are cofounder and each one is a foreigner except me who in usa trying to write out the corporation paper to the state and someone told me that i need usa board of director since it is in usa, so i want to get it clarify
3. can board of directors get paid?

Please help me out as we are young college kids trying to start nonprofit organization international





I would like to name someone in my succession plan and present it to the Board. Please advise.


I knnow we have to have a Board of Directors, and I have been told they approve salaries. I live in TEXAS. I dont want to seem greedy with grant money and money made for fee's for services, but i have to pay myself a salary and my employees who will work hard to keep the mission of the organization alive and running smoothly. So, I am confused, please help on this! thanks


Hillary Front Caught Suppressing Vote - Again!

From the DNCa��s taxpayer-funded National Public Radio:

Group with Clinton Ties Behind Dubious Robocalls

by Peter Overby

All Things Considered, May 1, 2008 A� Thousands of North Carolina residents answered their telephones last week to hear this message, delivered in a deep, soothing voice:

a�?Hello. This is Lamont Williams. In the next few days, you will receive a voter registration packet in the mail. All you need to do is fill it out, sign it, date and return the application. Then you will be able to vote and make your voice heard. Please return your registration form when it arrives. Thank you.a�?

In fact, the deadline to register for the May 6 Democratic presidential primary had already passed. The robocall went to many registered voters who were expecting to vote that day. The call and follow-up mailings left many wondering whether they were registered for the primary or not.

This sounds like a classic example of voter suppression a�� sowing confusion in order to drive down turn-out. The calls seemed to be aimed at African-American communities, places where Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is expected to run well ahead of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton.

But the group behind the calls isna��t partisan Republican or ideologically conservative. Ita��s Womena��s Voices Women Vote, a 501(c)(3) charity that states its mission as registering single women to votea��

Just a week ago, the groupa��s founder, Page Gardner, contacted the North Carolina Board of Elections to let them know about the mailing. She noted that the Womena��s Voices packet, which she said was intended to boost registration in general, would arrive in mailboxes just before the primary. Gardner wrote: a�?We hope this unfortunate coincidence in timing does not lead to any confusion or aggravation for either your statea��s voters or registrars.a�?

Will Evans of the Center for Investigative Reporting , who collaborated in reporting this story, found some Obama backers among the Womena��s Voices leadership, but the group mostly has ties to Clinton and her campaign. Gardner worked on former President Bill Clintona��s 1992 campaign. Board member John Podesta was President Clintona��s chief-of-staff. Maggie Williams, Hillary Clintona��s campaign manager, used to be on the Womena��s Voices leadership team and did consulting work for the groupa��

The Institute for Southern Studies began investigating after receiving complaints about the robocalls. The institute traced the calls to Womena��s Voices, which has acknowledged responsibility.

The Institute turned up other complaints about the group as well, in Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. A a�?Lamont Williamsa�? robocall similar to North Carolinaa��s ran in Ohio last fall. In Virginia, robocalls days before the February primary caused voters to flood the board of elections with phone calls, in turn triggering an investigation by the state police.

Kromm says this shows at least five months of a a�?deceptive tactic, illegal in many states.a�? He notes, a�?Each time this group is criticized for this activity, they apologize for the confusion.a�?

The North Carolina attorney general says the robocalls are illegal. State law requires that automated phone calls identify the sponsoring group and give the recipient a phone number or other means of contacting the group. The Lamont Williams call did neithera��

As the article notes, a former a�?leadership teama�? member at WVWV is none other than Hillarya��s campaign manager, Maggie Williams. And Bill Clintona��s chief of staff, John Podesta, is still listed as a a�?director.a�?

As the article also briefly notes, these same people have pulled this and other similar voter suppression stunts several times before.

As the aforementioned Institute For Southern Studies points out, this is not an isolated mistake:

D.C. nonprofit aimed at women voters behind deceptive N.C. robo-calls

By Chris Kromm

May 1, 2008

* In Arizona last November, election officials were a�?inundated with complaintsa�? after Womena��s Voices sent a mailing erroneously claiming that recipients were a�?requireda�? to mail back an enclosed voter registration form. Many who received the mailing were already registered; the mailing also gave the wrong registration date. Secretary of State Jan Brewer denounced the groupa��s tactics as a�?misleading and deceptive.a�? A similar mailing in Colorado that month a�?[drew] fire and caused confusion,a�? according to a state press release.

* In Wisconsin, state officials singled out Womena��s Voices for misleading and possibly disenfranchising voters, stating in a press release [PDF]: a�?One group in particular a�� Womena��s Voices. Women Vote, of Washington, D.C. a�� apparently ignored or disregarded state deadlines in seeking to register voters,a�? sending in registrations past the January 30 deadline and causing a�?hundreds of Wisconsin voters who think they registered in advancea�? to actually not be.

* Michigan officials ended up a�?fielding tons of calls from confused votersa�? after Womena��s Voices did a February mailing to a�?380,000 unmarried womena�? a�� including numerous deceased voters and even more that were already registered. Sarah Johnson of Womena��s Voices a�?seemed confused by the confusion,a�? the Lansing State Journal reported.

* A 1.5 million-piece Womena��s Voices mailing in Florida falsely stated: a�?To comply with state voting requirements, please return the enclosed application.a�? Pasco Countya��s elections supervisor called it a�?disingenuousa�?; another said it created a�?a lot of unnecessary panic on behalf of the voters,a�? reported local newspapers. Sarah Johnson of Womena��s Voice said, a�?Ia��m sorry to hear that.a�?

* By March, Womena��s Voices was backing off the erroneous a�?registration is requireda�? language, but there were still problems. For example, a mailing in Arkansas allowed that a�?registering to vote is voluntary,a�? but a clerk in Washington County reported that a�?the majority [of forms] sent back to the county come from registered voters, causing needless labor for office employees.a�?

Problems with the groupa��s tactics have also been documented in Louisiana, Kentucky and Ohio.

In each state, the Womena��s Voices campaigns have brought the same news and the same themes, again and again: Deceptive claims and misrepresentations of the law a�� sometimes even breaking the law. Wildly inaccurate mailing lists, supposedly aimed at a�?unregistered single women,a�? but in reality reaching many registered voters as well as families, deceased persons and pets. Tactics that confuse voters and potentially disenfranchise them.

For such a sophisticated and well-funded operation, which counts among its ranks some of the countrya��s most seasoned political operatives, such missteps are peculiar, as is the surprise expressed by Womena��s Voices staff after each controversya��

Probably NPR is just relieved to find that mean, racist Republicans arena��t behind these shenanigans.

Of course if they were, NPR and the rest of our watchdog media would be screaming for a special prosecutor and round the clock Congressional show trials.

But speaking of fraud, here is just one example of an ad from this taxpayer supported non-partisan 501c3 a�?charitya�?:


When forming a nonprofit what is the minimum amount of people that can serve on the board of directors. Specifically in the state of Oregon.

I feel odd asking people to be on a board of directors for a nonprofit I am starting as it will take some time to start the organization and then even more time to get grant money for it.. How do people usually deal with this dillema?
I have an abundance of experience fundraising. So that is not a problem.
I also have an abundance of experience working with and running nonprofits.

I only feel odd because the "board members" concept is very new to me.

I feel that anyone who wants to start a nonprofit should give it a shot. Nonprofits are out there to help people and we need more community members to feel the need to help someone out. It probably isn't the best thing to do go about telling people to rethink their desire to help others especially if you don't have a lot of information.





By COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer
Thu Feb 28, 9:37 AM ET



DETROIT - The broad-brimmed western hats, colorful festival dance dresses and Mayan-style pottery that line the shelves at Xochi's Mexican Imports are common sights at stores in the Southwest.

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But it's southwest Detroit on a cold, dreary winter day, not sunny El Paso, San Diego, Tucson or other cities just north of the Mexican border.

From its Mexican Town restaurant district to the new shops of the La Plaza Mercado retail development, southwest Detroit is doing something it hasn't done in years a�� grow and prosper.

"We come starving for a better life," 32-year-old dance instructor Valeria Montes said. "We want to strive and we've found in southwest Detroit a place to do it. The opportunity was here for us and we took it."

Latinos are carving out a niche in neighborhoods far from the southern border more and more a�� from Bagley Street here to the Mitchell Street area in Milwaukee to Bailey's Crossroads in Fairfax County, Va.

A new wave of Latino immigrants is following others who established communities in northern cities in the 1950s after getting jobs in the auto and other manufacturing industries. The attraction now is employment in restaurants, shops and other service-oriented businesses that cater primarily to residents in those communities but also draw non-Latinos.

"A number of folks who are coming up a�� documented or undocumented a�� are finding jobs," said Enrique Figueroa, director of the Roberto Hernandez Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The now-vibrant neighborhood wasn't always so.

Its fate had mirrored most other areas of Detroit that began to lose businesses and people following the city's 1967 riot. Boarded-up buildings and an unappealing mix of fast-food stops, dank bars and seedy strip clubs lined the streets.

Gang violence was rampant and the housing stock crumbled.

"It wasn't a neighborhood where you could walk down the street," Southwest Detroit Business Association deputy director Edith J. Castillo said. "Now, you can actually walk down West Vernor. You can take your family out for ice cream after church."

Castillo's nonprofit is one of several working with city officials and businesses to resurrect the area.

More than $200 million has been invested in southwest Detroit in the past 15 years, which has attracted retail and new homes, including an $11 million condo development.

"It's one of the few places in the city where you are seeing a lot of private investment," said Olga Savic, of the Detroit Economic Growth Corp., the city's public/private development arm. "West Vernor Avenue was once primarily vacant. Now, it's 90 percent full."

The neighborhood is doing so well the mayor didn't include it in his plan to pump millions of dollars into distressed areas.

Blight hasn't been totally wiped out, but older Latinos and the new immigrants are helping with the transformation.

"These are people who are risk takers ... and understand if they are going to make it, it's up to them to make it successful," said Ruben Martinez, director of the Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University. "Many others, who have been here for several generations, don't have that."

The Detroit neighborhood is known as "Mexican Town," but it truly is a melting pot.

About half the residents claim a Hispanic heritage, 25 percent are black, 20 percent are white and 5 percent are Arab-American, according to the Southwest Detroit Business Association.

In contrast, more than 80 percent of Detroit's 920,000 residents are black.

And while the city's overall population has plummeted in recent decades because of white flight and more recently the exodus of the black middle class, the southwest side's population has grown considerably, up 6.9 percent to more than 96,000 people from 1990 to 2000.

The city's Latino population grew by nearly 19,000 over that period to more than 47,000.

Without the manufacturing jobs that attracted many to places like Detroit, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and Chicago in the 1950s and 1960s, Latinos have found opportunities in their own backyards, Figueroa said.

"Once you had a cousin, uncle or aunt there, that was a logical place to come because there were still jobs," he said. "The Detroit economy and Milwaukee economy have not done so well in the '80s and '90s. But what has occurred in the Latino community is the establishment of new businesses, primarily service-oriented businesses that serve the Latino communities that were established in the '50s and '60s."

Mexican restaurants and bars along Mitchell Street and in other parts of Milwaukee attract non-Latinos, but it's Latinos that keep the bakeries and grocery stores open, Figueroa said.

"There is enough money in the economy that people can sustain retail establishments by primarily relying on Latino clientele," he said.

It's that sense of community that led Montes and her husband to move from a downriver suburb of Detroit to the southwest side.

"I feel like I'm at home," she said. "I go to get a haircut, I speak Spanish. I go to mercado (market), I speak Spanish. My daughter goes to school and there are a lot of Latino kids. It's a great feeling."
**** Just wanted to post something that didn't portray immigrants as gang bangers, drug cartels, or welfare recipients. I am sure articles like these get overlooked.****


The right side of the blogosphere is all over the clueless media coverage of a new a�?studya�? and database compiled by a�?two nonprofit journalism organizationsa�? that purports to show that BUSH LIED to entice American into Iraq. You would think by now that the MSM would try to spare itself some embarrassment and at least do a cursory Google search before casting the researchers as neutral, reliable, disinterested parties. But noooo. They dutifully published these transparent moonbat briefs for impeachment without disclosing the a�?nonprofit journalism organizationsa��a�? ties to BDS sugar daddy George Soros.

Here are a couple of inconvenient truths the AP story neglects to tell us:

* a�?A study by two nonprofit journalism organizationsa��a�?

The Fund for Independence in Journalism says its a�?primary purpose is providing legal defense and endowment support for the largest nonprofit, investigative reporting institution in the world, the Center for Public Integrity, and possibly other, similar groups.a�? Eight of the eleven members of the Funda��s board of directors are either on the BoD of the Center for Public Integrity, or else are on the Centera��s Advisory Board. Thus these a�?twoa�? organizations are actually joined at the hip.

* a�?Fund for Independence in Journalisma��a�?

The Center is heavily funded by George Soros. It has also received funding from Bill Moyers, though some of that money might have actually been from Soros, laundered through Moyers via the Open Society Foundation


Does the typical path start with volunteering? Networking? Or do you just wait for someone to recruit you?


Is the press beginning to see through Al Gore's global warming scam?
A brief article posted at Newsweek's website offers hope that the media might finally be recognizing the former Vice President could be this decade's Ken Lay.
For those that have forgotten, Lay was the CEO of Enron (h/t NBer well99, emphasis added):
Since 2000, according to published reports, the former veep has transformed himself from a public servant with around $1 million in the bank to a sparkling private consultant with a net worth estimated to be north of $100 million. He's a senior adviser to Google, a board member at Apple and now a newly minted general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm that made billions investing early in Netscape, Amazon and Google.
Gore has pledged to hand over his KP "salary" to Alliance for Climate Protection, a nonprofit he chairs. But the gift is more symbolic than material. Gore's salary-his cut of the 2 percent "management fee" that KP partners get on all investments-is typically a sliver of the total compensation that VCs receive. If Gore's profit-sharing deal is anything like the firm's other 23 partners, he's also in line to collect tens of millions of dollars a year. That's because partners carve up 30 percent of the profits if and when the alternative-energy start-ups that KP supports go public or are sold. (Kleiner Perkins declined to comment on Gore's compensation, but his communications director, Kalee Kreider, confirmed that he plans to donate only his "guaranteed income" to charity.) Should Gore's prospecting unearth a clean-energy gold mine the size of Google-which earned billions for KP partners-his share of the loot could make him U.S. history's richest ex-veep.
Granted, this is just a blurb at Newsweek's website.
However, at some point, journalists have to start exploring the wealth that Gore is creating for himself while he tells regular citizens to walk to work in order to save the planet.
Is this the beginning?


I know that the board should have:
-Articles of Incorporation
-Bylaws
-List of Corporate Members titles, duties, roles and responsibilities
-List of Board Member Qualifications duties, roles and responsibilities
-Membership letter saying they are a board member
-Financial reports of what is in the bank account
-Access to minutes book
-Copies of all organizational policies
-Receipts for personal donations

But Should all of the board members have the:
-Tax ID #
-Dun and Bradstreet# (business credit report info)
-EIN #
-CCR information (government grants and contractor database info)
-Non-Profit Tax Exemption Status #
-The Bank Account Numbers
-Should they know what other board members have donated or just what they (themselves) have donated?

Should the whole board have this information or just the treasurer, Executive Director or Business Manager?

What shouldn't the Board of Directors know?? What information is to much information?

Thanks in advance


A board of directors that includes a broad representation of the community is an indication that an organization will servethe public rather than private interests. Please provide details concerning any plans you have to expand your board of directors to include more individuals who are not members of the two families now controlling the Board.
The medical research for Alzheimer and Dementia


As per the Articles of Incorporation: "The corporation shall have no members. The management of the affairs of the corporation shall be vested in a Board of Directors, as defined in the corporation's bylaws. No Director shall have any right, title, or interest in or to any property of the corporation." Is that to say that the Board of Directors may not provide direct services, e.g. can a Director of a school be a teacher? Thanks for any insight.


Hi all - hoping someone can point me in the right direction:

I'm making a website for a nonprofit. I want to include a "contact us" form that people can fill out to get in touch with the folks in the organization. I know how to make a form that will send a message back to a single recipient; however, what I want to do is provide the reader with a dropdown menu specifying a particular recipient (Board of Directors, treasurer, etc.) and have the form send the message to a different recipient for each option on the dropdown.

My abilities are limited to (x)HTML, CSS, etc. - my "scripting" knowledge (javascript, mostly) is not extensive. Anyway - can someone tell me whether what I want to do is possible?

Thanks!


Exec dir has found a new position and is leaving on good terms. Board will hire an interim exec dir before settling on a new exec dir, could take months.


Please provide websites that you cite. I need to approach someone on the board I am on about this. Thank you!


Our original bylaws indicated six individuals to become the member of the board of directors. Due to politics and limited knowledge of the people at the place of worship, they expanded to 26 people. Also, the head of the priests serve as the President or Chairperson of the board. I do appreciate any insight information or comments that you can make. I suggested to the group that we should stick with our original charters. (The group acted more like a gang, by bringing their peers to serve on the board and making decisions toward their own.) Thank you for your time.


My local place of workship has abandoned their existing bylaws and practices their own ways. We are in the State of Missouri. Should I contact the secretary of State office or the IRS? For example, the place allows any walk-ins or group of people to vote for the board of directors, instead of its members. There are a lot of practices that violated the original charter. The bylaws specify that we should have the members and applications. In the current practice, there is no membership information. I do appreciate all comments. Thank you.


1.Corporate bylaws
2.Board of directors
3.Limited liability partnership
4.Joint venture
5.S-corporation
6.Limited liability company
7.Nonprofit corporation
8.Cooperative
9.Franchiser
10.Franchisee