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How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California

Pub. Date: May 2009
Edition: 13th
Pages: 392 pp
ISBN: 9781413310276
Forms: 31 forms
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Summary

Start a nonprofit with the forms and information you need you need to give back to the community!

Thousands of arts groups, educators, social-service agencies and others have used How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California  to organize. It's so easy to use, anyone can do it!

With a nonprofit corporation, you'll gain recognition, save money, become eligible for grants, and protect your members and directors from liability. And you can do all of this without spending thousands on an attorney.

How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California includes complete instructions for obtaining federal 501(c)(3) tax-exemption and for qualifying for public charity status with the IRS. It also provides:

  • line-by-line instructions for completing your application
  • instructions and completed sample clauses for preparing articles of incorporation
  • ready-to-use bylaws for membership and non-membership nonprofits
  • ready-to-use minutes for the organizational meeting
  • sheets with California's specific legal and tax requirements

The 13th edition has been revised and updated to account for recent changes to the rules for obtaining tax-exempt status in California and newly updated IRS forms, which are included as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.

This book is also available as a corporate records binder: The California Nonprofit Corporation Kit.

Press Reviews

"If you’re thinking of forming a nonprofit corporation in California, you’ll find this handbook invaluable."
MacUser
"Includes examples of typical forms and formats for preparing the incorporating documents."
San Francisco Examiner
"A useful resource to help you get underway."
Entrepreneur

Customer Reviews

If it hadn't been for this book, we would never have gotten our nonprofit incorporated.

A.M.,
Valencia, CA

Couldn't have managed without it. Very detailed.

Colleen A.,
Corona, CA

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