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Minnesota Attorney General Sues Nonprofit for Misusing Funds

NonProfit PRO

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has filed a lawsuit against Minnesota nonprofit ThinkTechAct Foundation, as well as its founder/president, a board member and executive director, alleging they ran a sham nonprofit and misused nonprofit funds.

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Event Fundraisers Banned From Minnesota

The NonProfit Times

The professional fundraising organization Ride to The Chip and its founders have been barred from all future professional fundraising activities in Minnesota. In Minnesota, the Attorney General through the Charities Division has civil, not criminal, enforcement authority over the state’s charitable solicitation and charitable trust laws. “It

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Minnesota Annual Conference

Bloomerang

————. The post Minnesota Annual Conference appeared first on Bloomerang.

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Linux Foundation drops the ban-hammer on University of Minnesota over controversial 'research' experiment

TechSpot

The Linux Foundation has banned the entire University of Minnesota from contributing to the Linux kernel. The expulsion comes after researchers from the school published a paper titled "Open Source Insecurity: Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities via Hypocrite Commits." The paper details how Qiushi Wu and Kangjie Lu, both students at U.

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Minnesota burglars are using Wi-Fi jammers to disable home security systems

TechSpot

Police in Edina, Minnesota, said that the string of burglaries over the past half a year doesn't involve victims who are chosen at random; instead, the criminals are watching homes in affluent neighborhoods and entering when they are unoccupied to avoid confrontations. Read Entire Article

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University of Minnesota banned from contributing to Linux kernel

The Verge

The University of Minnesota has been banned from contributing to the Linux kernel by one of its maintainers after researchers from the school apparently knowingly submitted code with security flaws. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Record-breaking donations on Give to the Max Day in Minnesota

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

1. Hi Dana, congrats on another successful Giving Day in Minnesota. Minnesota media organizations are incredibly generous and give us great visibility online and in print in exchange for being promoted on our website and in social media. The goal was to establish some brand awareness across Minnesota.

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