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...liked the spirit of the more casual tailgates, but the structure we’re trying to put in place with more organizational overhead could actually make for a smoother tailgate,” he said...
...nonprofits is by looking for charities with low operating costs. Ask a nonprofit what percentage of the budget covers overhead and how much the CEO takes as salary. But you should be wary of smaller nonprofits that have been around a while and have grown tired or obsolete, says Robert Egger, author of Begging for Change, a book about nonprofits. Egger's advice: look for an organization with some turnover at the board level, a sign that new ideas are welcome. But you should probably avoid an organization with persistent turnover in management, a sign that the charity is ineffective...
...films, one can hear the crisp crackle of autumn leaves; in others, voices are reduced to murmurs. Most of what the children say is unintelligible, but at times one can interpret the general tenor of their exclamations. The shifts between chirping birds, squealing kids on swings, roaring airplanes overhead, and mechanical rifle noises do seem unordinary, as does the intimacy of the films—but these films were not intended to be conventional documentaries. Lockhart was in constant dialogue with the children of Pine Flat—although the name is actually a pseudonym, meant to preserve the town?...
...only that, the fundraiser requires “zero overhead and a limited amount of time to organize,” Dems President Eric P. Lesser ’07 wrote in an e-mail...
...their money would be going into their intended recipient’s treasury, not the University’s coffers.We are not suggesting that the University is necessarily wrong to impose this new tax. It is conceivable, for example, that the University has a sizable amount of overhead costs in providing the gift account service, and that these costs warrant incurring the aforementioned harms. But we doubt that the University’s overhead costs are so high as to justify a 15 percent deduction from student group gift accounts, and student groups certainly deserve more than a curt letter...