Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide - Softcover

Hopkins, Bruce R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471680001 ISBN 13: 9780471680000

Publisher: Wiley, 2004

Synopsis

Whether you are a nonprofit novice or the director of an established organization, this must-have guide to nonprofit law contains all the information you need to succeed, thrive, and protect your nonprofit's tax-exempt status. This practical reference offers you information on virtually every legal aspect of starting and operating a nonprofit organization—from receiving and maintaining tax-exempt status to tips for successful management practices. Completely revised and expanded, the third edition features updated information on changes in law, rules, and regulations governing the nonprofit sector, and provides you with clear information on corporate, tax, and fundraising laws.

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From the Back Cover:

The essential resource for nonprofit success

For everyone from nonprofit novices to sophisticated directors of established organizations, this expert guide to nonprofit law provides all the critical information and know-how executives and other leaders need to succeed, thrive, and protect any nonprofit’s tax-exempt status. Written by Bruce Hopkins, the country’s leading legal authority in the field, this Fourth Edition of Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide covers the breadth of legal aspects of starting and operating a nonprofit organization. This latest edition’s revisions include updated material on changes in laws, rules, and regulations governing the nonprofit sector.

Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide, Fourth Edition provides:

Practical guidance on the rules and regulations governing nonprofit organizations, including corporate, tax, and fundraising law applications and implications

Up-to-date information on reporting revenue, private benefit, intermediate sanctions, supporting organizations, and the commerciality doctrine

New material on advocacy communications by exempt organizations, the political organization’s notice and reporting requirements, and the use by exempt organizations of limited liability companies

Insight into the newly emerging law concerning involvement of exempt organizations in joint ventures

Checklists, step-by-step guidance to procedures, and a glossary of legal terms for fail-safe compliance

Written by a lawyer for non-lawyers, this easy-to-read book is an invaluable resource for nonprofit executives and managers, fundraising professionals, trustees, consultants, committed volunteers, and anyone involved in the complex, rewarding world of nonprofit organizations.

About the Author:

BRUCE R. HOPKINS is the country’s leading authority on tax-exempt organizations and is a lawyer with the firm Polsinelli, Shalton & Welte, PC. He is also the author of fifteen books, including The Law of Intermediate Sanctions; The Legal Answer Book for Private Foundations; The First and Second Legal Answer Book for Nonprofit Organizations; The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Eighth Edition; Private Foundations: Tax Law and Compliance, Second Edition; and The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, Third Edition, as well as the newsletter Bruce R. Hopkins’ Nonprofit Counsel, all published by Wiley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0471680001
• ISBN 13: 9780471680000
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 360