Current Conversation
| Comparing factors relevant to the choice of corporate form in Israel and the U.S. |
(first post Nov. 24, 2008) Do any of your know of detailed academic literature on why and how start-up nonprofits choose their form when they have multiple choices at the state level? The Israeli doctoral student who just posted on Arnova-L has also written to me about this. There is some discussion of this in India and South Asia and I gave her those references. Her message is below. Thanks and best wishes. Mark (replies to the discussion board dsilberaalsnfp@hofstra.edu or to me at: mark-... |
| Illinois Supreme Court to Hear Provena-Covenant Appeal |
(first post Nov. 26, 2008) Hi everyone. I just got word from the Illinois Attorney General's office that the Illinois Supreme Court has granted Provena Covenant Hospital's request for the court to hear a final appeal in its property tax exemption case. I posted a short blurb over at the Nonprofit Law Prof Blog (available here: |
| Related Reading : Foundations Can Improve Efficiency, Effectiveness by Using Investment Intermediaries |
With more foundations going beyond grants to make mission-related investments through loans or venture capital, funders should consider using or even helping create mission investment intermediaries, according to a new report. Funded by the Surdna Foundation and produced by FSG Social Impact Advisors, Aggregating Impact: A Funders Guide to Mission Investment Intermediaries defines these intermediaries as organizations, such as community development finance institutions and screened equity funds, which collect capital from... |
New forum topics
- speaking engagement in Chicago
- AALS Nonprofit & Philanthropy Law Section: Call For Papers
- Nonprofit hospitals hike rates in anticipation of health bill restrictions.
- American Hospital Association works to stop "community benefit review" of tax exemption in health care legislation
- Abstracting Journals
