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New Workshop – Keeping Your Nonprofit Legal 2020 from the Lenawee Community Foundation
Attention nonprofit board members and executive directors! Are you aware of: The penalties for not sharing your nonprofit IRS filings upon request? How improper receipting of gifts can negate donors’ charitable deductions? When you must pay sales or unrelated business income tax? When a raffle or solicitation license is required?
2020 Lenawee Cares Grants Awarded
Last time I shared about the rigorous grants process through Lenawee Cares, a program of the Lenawee Community Foundation. Because of generous donors, who made gifts or pledges exceeding $509,000, we are now collecting and distributing these funds to local nonprofits, where the greatest good can be achieved. $405,958 is
Lenawee Community Foundation Leadership Change
Dave Hickman, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Lenawee Community Foundation (LCF), announces a change in its leadership effective August 1, 2020. Sue Hammersmith will retire as President & CEO and be succeeded by Joseph R. Williams. Hickman stated, LCF started as a community foundation in 1996, and
Doing the Right Thing with Love
Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “The old law about an ‘eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.” He also said, “Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.” We are blessed in Lenawee with people, who have been