[Foundation-l] Foundation vs. charity

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 18:43:37 UTC 2011


On 26 April 2011 20:22, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:

> It appears that nobody appears to actually follow this rule (including the
> "New York Times"), but I find the nuance interesting. I imagine one would
> perform better than the other during fundraising; perhaps there's hard data
> on that.


This varies between local dialects of English. The word "charity" is
much more freely applied to anything tax-deductible in the UK than it
is in Australia or (as far as I can tell) the US, for example. I
wouldn't sweat it hugely.


- d.



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