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Foreign Agents Registration Act

FARA defines “foreign principal” broadly to include any, government, political party, association, corporation, or other organization that was either established under a foreign country’s laws or maintains its principal place of business in a foreign country; and any individual outside of the United States. An “agent” is an individual or entity that acts within the United States at the direction of either a foreign principal or a person whose activities are supervised or directed by a foreign principal.

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Nonprofits Expanding Internationally
International Operations and Grants

Nonprofits Going Global

Increasingly, US nonprofits seek to go global by expanding their operations and influence overseas. When a US nonprofit expands its activities across borders, whether by

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4 Questions You Should Consider Before Giving Abroad

Whether your interested in giving abroad because you’ve traveled to distant parts of the world and were inspired by the inventiveness of the communities you visited, read about an issue in a news article, or maybe just feel a special kinship with a given place, the desire to help can quickly move to the top of your priority list.

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American Friends of Charity
International Operations and Grants

What is an American Friends of Charity?

To qualify as a U.S. “Friends Of” affiliate of a foreign charity, U.S. law dictates how the U.S. organization must relate to its foreign affiliate. Under United States tax law, U.S. Friends of organizations must be operated independently of the foreign organizations they support.

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Small is Beautiful
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Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered

Fritz Schumacher published Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered in 1973. According to The Times Literary Supplement, it is among the 100 most influential books published since World War II and rightfully so.

For the last 60 years or so our way of life has been based on the premise that so long as there is demand there will always be supply. Schumacher wisely challenges these assumptions when he writes that sustainability is an impossibility when we are, “assuming all the time that a man who consumes more is ‘better off’ than a man who consumes less”, in an environment with finite resources.

E. F. Schumacher is clear about what economics can do and what it can’t do. Mainstream economists divide humans into producers and consumers. As consumers, consuming more will always be in our self-interest. As producers, efficiency is to be desired above all else. This breaks down, Schumacher says, as soon as we realize that producers and consumers are the same people with the same desires.

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