Our law firm helps professional associations succeed. We help professional societies, trade groups, chambers of commerce, real estate boards, and business leagues with their day-to-day legal issues, ...
How To Start a School
What are some legal issues you need to consider when starting a private school? Starting a private school requires a dedicated team of individuals with a focus on providing a quality education. ...
Nonprofit Checkup for Nonprofit Professionals
Welcome, October! In the last quarter of the year, we remind our clients about some of their year-end obligations, or help them get ahead on issues they may have been putting off. Or maybe both! Today ...
Are you doing what you say you will? Check & review your Nonprofit Mission Statement & Activities
Nonprofit mission statements define a nonprofit organization; they state what your organization does and whom it serves. [If writing your first nonprofit mission statement, you may want to ready: ...
What is UBIT (Unrelated Business Income Tax)?
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit is not taxed on revenue that comes from an activity that is substantially related to the organization's tax-exempt purpose (charitable, educational, religious, scientific, or ...
What are the Duties of Nonprofit Directors?
What Are the Duties of Nonprofit Directors? State law sets out which type of management and governing structure is acceptable for nonprofit corporations in that state. In some states, nonprofit ...
Nonprofit Law Basics: Who Owns a Nonprofit?
Who owns a nonprofit? No one. A major misconception about nonprofit organizations concerns ownership of a nonprofit. No one person or group of people own a nonprofit organization. Ownership is ...
Do Nonprofits File Tax Returns? What is a 990?
Do nonprofits file tax returns? Most tax-exempt organizations are required to file annual informational returns with the IRS. Even though most tax-exempt nonprofit organizations do not pay federal ...
What is the difference between nonprofit and tax-exempt?
What is the difference between nonprofit and tax-exempt? I hear a lot of people (even in the nonprofit sector) mixing up the terms "nonprofit" and "tax-exempt." Just because your organization is a ...
Can the Executive Director Serve on the Board of Directors?
The law requires that the best interest of the nonprofit prevail over the director’s personal or business interests. If the executive director is a paid staff person who sits on the voting board of ...