of the soul when it gives expression to our truest feelings.
A non-profit 501(c) is a provision of the United States Internal Revenue Code and a legally constituted organization whose objective is to support or engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit. A charity is a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals). Today, there are more than 900,000 registered charities in the United States.
WHAT IS IT? It's an accordion! According (no pun intended) to www.Accordions.com:
The first accordion to feature a piano-style ivory keyboard was produced in Vienna in 1863. Many performers regarded it as a means of liberating themselves, to a limited extent, from being confined to their massive and immobile walls of pipes. As with the modern accordion, these keys were much smaller than those on the piano, and more rounded to allow for faster playing. Design requests from musicians helped refine the shape and appearance of the accordion keyboard even more over the next several years. One of these artists, Pietro Deiro, brought his custom built piano accordion to the United States and, thanks to a successful New York concert at the Washington Square Theatre in 1909, earned a reputation for himself as the father of the American accordion playing.
During the early part of the twentieth century the leading accordion manufacturers began increasing their output and, thanks to pressure from professional players, settling on a general standard size and shape for the instrument, with 19½" the agreed length for a 41 note keyboard. One company in particular managed to establish a solid slot for itself in the industry hierarchy. It is commonly accepted that Matthias Hohner (1833 - 1902) was to the accordion what Henry Ford was to the automobile and enterprising figure who made his product available to a great number of people at reasonable prices. Originally a clockmaker in Trossingen, Germany, Hohner had begun building accordions at his workshop in 1857, but by roughly 20 years after his death the business he had founded was creating them by mass production.
“The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; the charities that soothe, and heal, and bless are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.” William Wordsworth "Americans may individually be donating less money and to fewer nonprofits today than at any time in the past quarter century, according to a new national study."
"No matter how much money we invest or how sensibly we design our policies, the change that Americans are looking for will not come from government alone."
President Barack Obama
Article by Paul Clolery
The NonProfit Times
"Many nonprofit organizations are challenged by a rapidly changing funding environment and a steadily rising need for services from the communities they serve."
Gary Deverman
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