Nonprofit tax returns now easier to obtain New rules for making nonprofits’ tax returns more accessible to the public will take effect on June 8, 1999. The new law requires charitable organizations and institutions to mail copies of their returns to anyone who submits a written request. In the past, copies only had to be …Read More

In this month’s Give & Take we talk with Susan Lampe, director of planned giving at the University of Hawaii Foundation. Having worked in various aspects of fund raising for 21 years both in the Continental United States as well as Hawaii, Ms. Lampe offers her philosophy on gift planning in this “Gift Planner Profile.” …Read More

Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a series that will be featured over the next several months in Give & Take. It is the intention of the authors to distill over 100 years of combined experience of Sharpe consultants in working with planned gift development efforts of all types and sizes into a …Read More