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Plexus Consulting Group, LLC
1620 Eye Street, NW
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Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202-785-8940
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We have affiliates in Amman, Beijing, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon, London, Mexico City, New Delhi, Paris, Reykjavik, and Tokyo.

PLEXUS CONSULTING GROUP,LLC

Volume 2, Issue 2

HORIZON

Do the ends ever justify the means?

The laws of most nations allow tax-exempt status for organizations that can prove they serve a higher purpose--one that presumably benefits society as a whole. The promotion of a higher purpose--is perhaps the most distinguishing characteristic of the association sector. This characteristic is the association community’s strength, but it can also be its Achilles' heel

News:

· Affiliation with Dajani Consulting Offers Plexus Clients Middle-Eastern Opportunity

· Doing business in China

· Steven Worth to speak on Powerful Partnerships at the ASAE & the Center Annual Meeting and Exposition

Anyone in association development and operation must have selling skills. The same skills that make a successful salesperson will also lead to successful association operations as well as attracting enthusiastic volunteers.

Applying Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) to Associations

The voluntary application of SOX to associations is the number one topic according to a recent survey of Association issues. SOX has been in the news recently as a result of a GAO report and an SEC report on its effect on small companies.

The long talked about changes in the Lobbying Disclosure Act are about to happen when the President signs the optimistically titled “Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007.”