http://blog.voluntourism.org/?p=122 Answers To Your VolunTourism Questions & More Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:00:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.voluntourism.org/?p=122&cpage=1#comment-1438 VolunTourism Review For Week 16, 2009 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:05:40 +0000 http://blog.voluntourism.org/?p=122#comment-1438 [...] The debate as to whether social entrepreneurism must reside in either the nonprofit or the for-profit sector experienced another blurring of the lines over the last couple of weeks. With Sonal Shah, former Google.org global development director, being named the new head of the Social Innovation Fund as part of the Executive Office of the President (EOP), we could see a real boost in the chances of for-profit structures to benefit from tax breaks and funding streams traditionally granted solely to the nonprofit sector. The introduction of L3C’s and a strong push by B-Lab to create tax breaks for B-Corporations could mean very good things for for-profits in the voluntourism sector. Read More>>> [...] [...] The debate as to whether social entrepreneurism must reside in either the nonprofit or the for-profit sector experienced another blurring of the lines over the last couple of weeks. With Sonal Shah, former Google.org global development director, being named the new head of the Social Innovation Fund as part of the Executive Office of the President (EOP), we could see a real boost in the chances of for-profit structures to benefit from tax breaks and funding streams traditionally granted solely to the nonprofit sector. The introduction of L3C’s and a strong push by B-Lab to create tax breaks for B-Corporations could mean very good things for for-profits in the voluntourism sector. Read More>>> [...]

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