Some nonprofits enjoy tax-exempt status under stringent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regulations. However, they must meet guidelines regarding their formation, creation, and activities. An [...]
Nonprofit groups, including faith-based organizations, often collect information about members and visitors. Privacy is always a concern when gathering and storing personal data. The concern may [...]
Many churches use vans, buses, and automobiles to transport members and visitors. It’s often a convenient way to increase attendance at events for people who cannot drive themselves. Private and [...]
Funding the programs of a church takes careful planning. Increasingly churches and other charities consider engaging in activities which may constitute unrelated businesses, for the purpose of [...]
As churches grow their donor base they invariably run into questions about their compliance obligations with respect to tax and other matters relating to donor contributions. While tax law places [...]
Political advertising is sometimes loose with the truth. Framing an argument by selectively using facts is a tried-and-true strategy of political campaigns. Given the stakes and the passions on [...]
A common misperception of the nonprofit world is that people who work in it are always hugely underpaid. The truth is more complex. Nonprofits compete with each other as well as for-profit [...]
For a 501(c)(4) social welfare nonprofit established to accomplish a specific goal or promote certain values, risk may feel like a secondary concern to accomplishing the team’s mission. But to a [...]
Donors to nonprofits will sometimes make informal requests for how their gifts will be used. Fundraising professionals always need to pay attention to these requests, even if they aren’t [...]
Churches have many reasons for hiring marketing firms. Building an online image, expanding the reach of the church’s message, reaching new congregants (and new potential sources of revenue) all [...]