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The DIA community suffered unfortunate collateral damage this week when Robert Greenwald -- director of last year's advocacy superstar Wal-Mart: The High Cost of a Low Price -- was deployed by Duncan Black of Eschaton fame in a lighthearted volley of terrible YouTube with fellow bloggers.
What else besides Xanadu lurks in Robert's closet?
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05:00 PM Jul 08, 2006 -
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OMB Watch: Arbitrariness Afflicts IRS Crackdown on Nonprofit Advocacy
Our friends at OMB Watch just issued a report that will be troubling to the many cause-oriented nonprofits in the DIA community, especially with election season approaching.
The Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) new approach to enforcing the ban on partisan activities by charities and religious organizations has raised serious questions about the agency's interpretation of the law, about evenhanded enforcement, and about the appropriateness of an approach aimed at deterring speech.
The IRS has bared its teeth at a supposed epidemic of politicking by not-for-profit organizations, with the NAACP
the highest-profile target to date. Whatever one might think in
principle about what restrictions should attend the beneficence of tax
exemption, the actual standards at work are murky and their application
seemingly arbitrary ... with a frisson of the political dirty trickery so illustrious in the annals of Internal Revenue.
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09:00 AM Jul 08, 2006 -
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If You Don't Like It, Go To Russia
Somehow, I had made it three times before to Russia without ever setting foot in St. Petersburg, an oversight rectified in time to catch the city lancing its boils ahead of the G8 summit. (But really, were the animal lovers giving away kittens on Nevsky Prospect such a dreadful eyesore?) Pictures bottled up in a digital camera, so make do for the moment with this illustration for Dostoyevsky's White Nights, whose namesake phenomenon was underway for the visit.
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04:00 PM Jul 07, 2006 -
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Whether and How to Use Myspace
Because you can never get enough of Myspace, here's an interesting breakdown of the pros and cons of creating one for your org. Basically, if you want to reach the youths, a Myspace page is a good bet.
DIA members currently workin' it on Myspace include The One Campaign and Greenpeace. Am I missing one?
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03:00 PM Jul 07, 2006 -
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Picture This
You might want to reconsider heavy use of images in your future email blasts, according to M+R's latest release. Apparently, even cute pictures like this don't do much to boost response rates.
Check out their in depth report, including best practices and tips.
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10:30 AM Jul 03, 2006 -
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