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Automatic Revocation of Exemption

GuideStar, What Automatic Revocation of Nonprofit Tax Exemptions Means for You: A Review for Nonprofits, Grantmakers, and Donors (April 2011)
Linda M. Lampkin, Automatic Revocation of Nonprofits' Tax-Exempt Status: What Nonprofits, Grantmakers, and Donors Need to Know (August 2010)

Matthew T. Journy, Paying for the Best: Executive Compensation for Section 501(c)(3) Public Charities (October 2012)
GuideStar, What You Need to Know about Nonprofit Executive Compensation (September 2011)
Karl E. Emerson, Esq., The Private Inurement Prohibition, Excess Compensation, Intermediate Sanctions, and the IRS’s Rebuttable Presumption: A Basic Primer for 501(c)(3) Public Charities (June 2009)

GuideStar, Planning for 2012
- Part 1, Prospecting Within the Nonprofit Sector (January 2012; updated for 2012)
- Part 2, What You Need to Know for New Business Development in the Nonprofit Sector (January 2012; updated for 2012)
- New! Part 3, Using GuideStar to Find Nonprofit Business Leads (January 2012)

GuideStar, New Rules for Grantmakers and Donors: An Overview for Private Foundations, Organizations Sponsoring Donor-Advised Funds, and Donors (August 2011)

GuideStar, The Effect of the Economy on the Nonprofit Sector: An October 2012 survey (November 2012)
Nonprofit Research Collaborative, Key Findings of the Late Fall 2011 Nonprofit Fundraising Survey (October 2011)
Nonprofit Research Collaborative, Fundraising Survey Shows Little Change from End of 2010 (July 2011)
Nonprofit Research Collaborative, Key Findings from the 2010 Nonprofit Fundraising Survey (February 2011)
Nonprofit Research Collaborative, November 2010 Fundraising Survey (November 2010)
GuideStar, The Effect of the Economy on the Nonprofit Sector: A June 2010 Survey (August 2010)
GuideStar, The Effect of the Economy on the Nonprofit Sector: An October 2009 Survey (December 2009)
GuideStar, The Effect of the Economy on the Nonprofit Sector, March–May 2009 (July 2009)
GuideStar, The Effect of the Economy on the Nonprofit Sector, October 2008–February 2009 (April 2009)
GuideStar, Seventh Annual GuideStar Nonprofit Survey (October 2008)
GuideStar, Sixth Annual GuideStar Nonprofit Survey(November 2007)
GuideStar, Fifth Annual GuideStar Nonprofit Survey (November 2006)
GuideStar, Fourth Annual GuideStar Nonprofit Survey (November 2005)
GuideStar, Third Annual GuideStar Nonprofit Survey (November 2004)
GuideStar, Giving Season Review (November 2003)
GuideStar, Mid-Year Review (September 2003)
GuideStar, Charitable Organizations and the Economy, January-October 2002 (December 2002)

GuideStar, The State of Nonprofit Transparency, 2008: Voluntary Disclosure Practices (March 2009)