As a tax-exempt entity, OFA by law can't intervene in elections and is subject to strict limits on lobbying.

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Pollick is using the model of a community foundation, where charities in a geographic area operate as a single tax-exempt entity.

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In 1843 the ABS sold the first-ever charitable gift annuity, a now-popular fundraising device in which a person makes a donation to a tax-exempt entity and gets back a specified annual return for life.

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No entity is exempt and, in our world, just about everyone can be engaged in some form of fraudulent activity and theft, be it office supplies, time, gasoline, telephone calls, cash, assets, food, liquor, pictures hanging on the wall, bed sheets, dishes, narcotics, credit cards, checks, information, and whatever else is available for the taking or diversion.

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Grameen transferred the ownership of the Norwegian funds from one Grameen entity, fearing its tax-exempt status might be changed, to another.

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