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How to Start a Nonprofit Organization In 5 Simple Steps

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You recently started gathering food, toiletries and other basic necessities for local people in need. Donors asked if they can deduct the cost of the donated items on their tax return, and a few people suggested you make your project legal by filing for nonprofit status. Is there a big enough need for your services?

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I got in trouble for wearing work-out clothes around the office, throwing up at work, and more

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Like, legally? Our workplace mails us donation requests. I work at a research 1 university and every year we receive mail (at home) soliciting for donations to the college we work in or the university itself. I have chronic health issues related to celiac disease that make it difficult for me to hold down food sometimes.

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I overheard a horrible fight on a web conference, the missing chocolate egg, and more

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It went quiet for a little bit, but then he started laying into her about how there was “too much f—–g food” and he couldn’t find anything or put anything away. Is this legal? You could say, “I’m happy to help out, but I want to make sure we do it legally so we don’t get in trouble. Does $X work?”

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4 reader updates (including the person who was jealous of her attractive employee)

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2) The patients have a legal right to know that their privacy has been breached. They have been mailed and are, luckily, no longer even remotely my problem! I have had a terrible relationship with food and my eating disorder therapist wanted me to work on this. Thanks so much for everyone’s advice!

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cheating in an office bake-off, my boss is advertising my job because I was out sick, and more

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Is this legal? Should I mail a copy of my resume after applying online? Nope, definitely do not mail your materials. If you mail them, it will look odd (why are you applying again when you’re already in their system from when you applied online?) Nope, that is the very definition of treating exempt workers illegally.

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Charles Spencer’s Story of Boarding School Abuse Is Haunting

Mad in America

O n 10 March, the Mail on Sunday put Charles Spencer’s story about being sexually abused at boarding school on its front page. While corporal punishment was legal, and may have been believed to be ‘normal and acceptable’ in the 1970s, the sexual abuse of an 11-year-old boy by a 19-year-old woman was not.

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companies incentivizing returning to work, shaking your hair out in a meeting, and more

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Legally they could simply require vaccination (with the usual medical and religious exceptions), but some companies figure they can get it done with less strife this way. I have shoulder-length hair and always pull it back at work because otherwise I shed SO MUCH hair over my clothes, workspace, paperwork, food, etc. (My