How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California - Softcover

Mancuso Attorney, Anthony

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9781413310276: How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413310273 ISBN 13: 9781413310276

Publisher: NOLO, 2009

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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 gain recognition, save money, become eligible for grants, and protect your members and directors from liability. And you can do all this without 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 is completely updated to provide the latest rules and forms, which are included as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.

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Book Description:

By forming a nonprofit, your organization gains recognition, saves money, becomes eligible for grants, and you can protect your members and directors from liability. Learn how to do it in California with this definitive guide, complete with:

instructions for creating your California nonprofit corporation
line-by-line instructions for completing the federal tax-exempt application, including the Form 1023-EZ
California's specific legal and tax requirements for 501(c)(3) nonprofits

Includes all the information you need!

About the Author:

Anthony Mancuso is a corporations and limited liability company expert. He graduated from Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, is a member of the California State Bar, writes books and software in the fields of corporate and LLC law, and studies advanced business taxation at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He has also been a consultant for Silicon Valley EDA (Electronic Design Automation) companies, most recently working on a C++ open-source integrated circuit database project team. He is the author of several Nolo books on forming and operating corporations (both profit and nonprofit) and limited liability companies. His titles include Incorporate Your Business, How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation (national and California editions), Form Your Own Limited Liability Company, The Corporate Records Handbook, and LLC or Corporation?. He wrote and programmed Nolo's LLC Maker and Incorporator Pro software programs, which generate state-by-state articles and other forms for organizing corporations and LLCs. His books and software have shown over a quarter of a million businesses and organizations how to form a corporation or LLC. He also is a licensed helicopter pilot and has performed for years as a guitarist in many musical idioms.

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