The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust was established on June 30th, 1975 by the will of the late Melvin J. (Jack) Murdock. Mr. Murdock was a co-founder of Tektronix, Inc., and was an innovative entrepreneurial leader with business interests throughout the Pacific Northwest. The Trust’s mission is to enrich the quality of life in the Pacific [...]

Surrounded by an ever increasing sea of Social Media options, many nonprofits are turning to these outlets to better and more consistently engage their community, supporters and donors. While adding visibility and increasing awareness through blogging and participating in the online community can be great for nonprofits, they should take care to go about it [...]

The passage of the Healthcare reform bill included some of the most drastic changes to 1099 information reporting in over a decade. The bill included revenue raising provisions meant to seek greater compliance of the tax code via 1099 information reporting. General provisions included: The elimination of the corporate exemption from 1099-MISC reporting. (Public Law [...]