Description: Everything a nonprofit's directors and leaders need to stay organized and create a paper trail of their meetings and other official activities and thus avoid legal trouble with the IRS.
A nonprofit's housekeeping tasks become clearer and easier with this book's guidance. It explains corporate legal requirements, provides sample forms, and offers step-by-step instructions for things like taking minutes and drafting written consents for directors and members. Nonprofit leaders learn how to avoid IRS trouble by properly giving notice of, holding, and documenting meetings, as well as approving common ongoing legal, tax, program, and financial decisions by their board or members.Brief description: Anthony Mancuso is a corporations and limited liability company expert, currently working at Google. 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 studied advanced business taxation at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. 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? His books have shown over 500,000 businesses and organizations how to form a corporation or LLC.
Review Quotes: "Nonprofits have basic corporate responsibilities they must take seriously -- or risk the unwanted attention of the IRS who, as a government agency, has the power to shut them down and even hold their leadership at risk for criminal indictment. "Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records: How to Properly Document Your Nonprofit's Actions" by Anthony Mancuso (who is a California attorney and a corporations and limited liability company expert) provides everything needed to hold meetings and properly document actions taken by board members and anyone else having dealings in behalf of the nonprofits. "Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records"includes resolutions to: call, notice, and hold meetings of directors and members; appoint officers and elect directors; take action by written consent; set up a corporate records book, and more. "Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records" also provides a wealth of useful tips and advice on how to do important tasks, such as organizing records, preparing meeting folders and taking minutes, in short, everything necessary to create a paper trail and avoid trouble with the IRS. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records" is an ideal instructional guide and reference for non-specialist general readers working with or for a nonprofit organization. While especially and unreservedly recommended for all nonprofit organization, community, and academic library reference collections, it should be noted that "Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records" is also available in a digital book format .
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