There is a huge untapped market of #retired technology folks. I'm curious if anyone knows of any groups the help match up tech talent with #opensource or #nonprofit organizations. Please boost for reach.
How a Network of Nonprofits Enriches Fundraisers While Spending Almost Nothing on Its Stated Causes
ProPublica identified a group of connected #political nonprofits — with names like American Breast #Cancer Coalition and National Coalition for Disabled #Veterans — that appear to be funneling more than 90% of donations to fundraisers.
Problem is that we're/they're bound by our #Nonprofit#PublicSector status to avoid discussing #capitalism as a problem or naming the political party responsible for this state of affairs @pluralistic, please advise...
Sharing what's going on with actual #fediverse#censorship happening over on #threads. Zuck has beef with a small #nonprofit newsroom calling out #meta#facebook ethics and they've decided to try wiping it off the internet. Tell all your friends to bring their receipts to #mastodon before they're gone too
After making billions in #TaxDeductible donations to his philanthropy, the owner of #Tesla & SpaceX gave away far less than required in some yrs— & what he did give often supported his #SelfInterests.
Before Mar 2021, #ElonMusk’s charitable foundation never announced any donations to CameronCounty, an impoverished region at the southern tip of TX that is home to his #SpaceX launch site & local ofcls who help regulate it.
#ElonMusk is under no obligation to have a #charity, & he has made clear that he believes his #ForProfit enterprises will change the world for the better far more than any #philanthropic venture could. But once he set up a #nonprofit & filled it w/ #TaxDeductible gifts, he was required by #law to ensure that his foundation served the public, & that it did not operate for the “private benefit” of its leader.
…#ElonMusk, instead, used his foundation to help groups tied to him personally, incl’g a food charity run by his brother & a “Temple of Whollyness” that was set on fire at the 2013 Burning Man, an event he often attends.
He also founded his own #nonprofit school called Ad Astra… to explore new ways to teach math & science.
But that school, too, would serve a personal purpose for Musk. In its first year of operation out of his home in #BelAir…, 5 of Ad Astra’s 14 students were his own children.
#Tax#law gives execs sitting on huge stores of their companies’ stock a way to lower their personal tax bill: #charity. #ElonMusk could donate shares of #Tesla, to a #nonprofit & take a tax deduction based on the value of the stock.
What #Musk did was give shares to his own foundation: e.g. in 2021 he gave 5M Tesla shares, worth $5.7B at the time.
Tax experts said it could have saved Musk more than $2 billion off his tax bill.
The March/April issue of Texas Observer magazine is out now, arriving in mailboxes and on select newsstands. From progressive #Democrats' battle with Kim Ogg, to historic political cartoons, this issue is packed with great reporting and memorable stories.
#OpenAI clapped back at #ElonMusk in its first public response to his lawsuit, publishing a blog post w/ old emails showing that the billionaire lobbied to merge the #AI lab w/ #Tesla & use the car company as a “CashCow.” #Musk’s lawsuit accuses OpenAI, which he helped found, of abandoning its original #nonprofit mission of making advanced AI beneficial to humanity.
Seeking an intern to help manage Mastodon accounts for our nonprofit public charity.
🎓 Current college student
⭐ We will coordinate with your internship program for course credit (where allowed).
⭐ Must have experience using Mastodon!
⭐ Must have experience with marketing calendars and creating engaging social media content.
❤️ Nice to haves: knowlege & interest in violence prevention; consent; healthy relationships; and the use of prosocial video games to effect positive change.
🙏 Please share!
DM me and I will send you the contact info for our Community Engagement Coordinator. She will schedule a Zoom interview.
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I wish there was a clear alternative, a sort-of blogger Wikipedia, an activity-pub-compliant platform for #newsletters+#blogs. We need to create synergy and network effects for small bloggers. Ghost and the alternatives don't check all the boxes yet