Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide

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.  

• 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.