Complying with formal notice requirements is an important piece of any organization’s governance. In businesses where legal formalities are given little or no consideration, It can be easy to [...]
When a person with extensive corporate board experience joins a nonprofit’s board the differences can come as a surprise. Many of the rules governing for-profit directors also apply to nonprofit [...]
Social welfare nonprofits are often established to provide a tax-exempt vehicle for organizing around a specific political topic. Under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code, social [...]
Even the most well-intentioned nonprofit can become an unwitting vehicle for money launderers. With law enforcement agencies at the state and federal level focusing on money laundering by [...]
Working with a for-profit business to attract donations has become a popular fundraising approach for nonprofits. Requests for donations to various causes have become a routine part of checking [...]
One of the serious mistakes a nonprofit’s management can make is engaging in transactions that tax authorities or donors could construe as self-dealing. A nonprofit’s tax privileges rest in part [...]
For a wide variety of reasons, many with deep historical or theological roots, churches often want to avoid entanglements with government agencies. Concerns about state interference in religious [...]
Conflicts of interest within a nonprofit’s leadership group can create thorny problems for the organization if they are not properly managed. Undisclosed or unresolved conflicts can lead to [...]
With another political season upon us people are organizing to support causes they care about. One means of doing that is to form a so-called social welfare organization, a type of nonprofit that [...]
Delegation by Boards of Directors Boards and their officers often fall into habits that define the relationship between the president or CEO and the board. On occasion, these habits will drift [...]