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If you are a donor, a grant-seeker, a philanthropic manager, or a professional adviser to any of them, you need to know the rules that distinguish various philanthropic structures.

Charities that seek contributions nationally must typically register in 39 states and the District of Columbia before starting to solicit. Furthermore, for-profit fundraisers are also required to register and file their contracts and other documentation with many states. Since many states are increasing their enforcement efforts to ensure that charities and fundraisers are complying with initial and annual registration requirements, it's important that charities and fundraisers abide by these statutes—especially since noncompliance can result in the imposition of significant fines and penalties.

This presentation addresses the art and science of drafting bylaws. Well-written and formulated bylaws help shape power relationships within a nonprofit organization; provide unambiguous procedures to prevent disputes; and reduce the risks of litigation. Bylaws should provide answers, not raise questions.

Fiscal sponsorship is a time-honored method to spawn new charitable activity when the people with the vision and the energy to do the work do not have recognition of federal tax-exempt status. 

Charities raising funds through special events or other activities that involve sponsorships, auctions, lotteries, or thank-you gifts must deal with a variety technical legal requirements in advertising, calculating, and acknowledging the money. This webinar reviews those rules so that charities can comply with the interlocking requirements.

The world of commercial insurance is complex and always changing. It's no wonder that nonprofit managers, executives and board members often struggle trying to understand how coverage works and the process for obtaining comprehensive and affordable coverage.

Clear gift acceptance policies can protect a charity from accepting a gift that will cost the charity far more than it is worth, and from personally insulting a potential donor whose collection of beer bottle caps you don't really want.

Every year is election year. And every session of the Congress, state legislature, or local government offers the possibility of public policy change that can significantly affect the work of nonprofit organizations.

Experts estimate that Americans hold some $3 trillion dollars in traditional Individual Retirement Accounts. Donors with children and an IRA who are also committed to making a significant gift to charity at death are usually receptive to a suggestion to combine the gifts to children and charity by giving all or a portion of the IRA to a charitable remainder unitrust ("CRUT"). Both charity and the children can do better with a larger combined gift than with an actuarially comparable gift of a portion of the IRA directly to charity.

It can be a slippery slope for board and staff when it comes to electioneering. This audio will encourage you to participate in advocacy and help you to manage risk when it comes to electioneering.

Financially squeezed nonprofits often seek to generate new revenue through new business ventures. But such efforts can carry serious legal, as well as economic, risks. This webinar will explore the unrelated business income tax (“UBIT”), how to define it, how to avoid it, and how to deal with the consequences of having “too much” of it.

Every year is election year. And nonprofit organizations know that the outcome can significantly affect their work. 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations and 501(c)(6) trade associations may participate in election campaigns, but 501(c)(3) charities must be careful not to intervene in an election campaign at any level because “electioneering” can cost them their exempt status.

Employers of all sizes need effective personnel policies that advise employees of organizational standards and procedures. They need to understand the documentation that helps sustain adverse employment actions that have to be taken against problem employees.

Certain employees of nonprofit organizations are protected by the National Labor Relations Act, even if they don’t belong to a union. And they don’t have to be seeking to establish a union to be covered.

This webinar reviewed the “top ten” employment law issues for nonprofit organizations, with tips on improving relations with employees and avoiding litigation. Janice Dubler, a partner in the employment law department of Montgomery, McCracken in Philadelphia, explains the principal employment law issues facing nonprofit employers with real world suggestions on ways to do it right.

A nonprofit organization’s building and grounds make up its facility. Responsibilities and protection differs depending on whether or not a nonprofit owns, leases, loans, rents, borrows or operates out of a home facility. Risks vary depending on the physical and mental capabilities, and ages of the service recipients.

Transforming Ordinary People into Fundraising Superheroes! Fundraising is a team sport. This entertaining, humorous book describes the fundraising process and how to make it work for your organization.

Clearly explains the mainly self-imposed limitations, and enumerates the many pluses, of open and candid communication with grant seekers as key to the process.