How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California

By admin • Dec 10th, 2008 • Category: Business

How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California
by Anthony Mancuso

How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California
By Anthony Mancuso

Publisher: Nolo
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1999-04
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0873375033
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780873375030
Binding: Paperback

* community service groups * schools * art studios * dance and music groups * religious organizations and churches * environmental and activist groups

Most organizations trying to gain legal nonprofit status don’t have the money to pay a lawyer thousands of dollars for help. Fortunately, they don’t have to.

In this definitive guide for anyone who wants to start a nonprofit organization in California, corporation expert Attorney Anthony Mancuso shows you step by step how to form and operate a tax-exempt corporation.

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 IRS tax exemption 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 * state sheets with California’s specific nonprofit legal and tax requirements

This 9th edition has been revised to include the most up-to-date tax and legal information, and it includes all the forms for articles, bylaws and minutes, both as tear-outs and on a CD-ROM.

This definitive guide to forming a nonprofit corporation in California is also available in a handy new format: a corporate records binder. Look up The California Nonprofit Corporation Kit for more details.

Summary: Good, solid information
Rating: 4

This book was a little wordy, even for someone who has incorporated a for-profit before. But the information is very consistent, and the forms provided and website references make this a very handy book to start with. Just make sure you want the right kind of 501(c)(3) that this book is written for first (public benefit), or he continually reinforces that this book is not right for you!

Summary: Extremely Helpful
Rating: 5

I find this really helpful and well written and organized as a book. The CD ROM with the forms are really helpful too (though I found an editing error in one of the forms..but nothing too major…just a spelling mistake (a typing error), that’s all). I’m quite ready and less confused now that I have read this book. It also helps me to stop and think more about my organizational plan and such, so that it’ll fit with the regulations about incorporation of non profit and the tax exempt status.

Summary: The book you need to incorporate a non-profit in CA!
Rating: 5

I was looking through the books on non-profit formation in a local bookstore, in downtown Palo Alto and ran into this title: my jaw dropped at the fact that there was such a perfect title for my needs. Not only was the book appropriately titled but the content helped me and my wife through the unfamiliar steps we had to take in order to incorporate our non-profit, Diabetes Hands Foundation, in California.

I recommend, along with it, The Budget-Building Book for Nonprofits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Managers and Boards and Managing a Nonprofit Organization in the Twenty-First Century. These three titles have been at the heart of the non-profit-related instruction we have picked up on in the past couple of months.

Summary: How To Form a Non Profit Corporation in California
Rating: 5

This is an excellent manual which answers all of the procedural and operating questions anyone could have about this topic. I heartily recommend it.

Summary: Starting a Nonprofit
Rating: 5

I am in the process of forming a nonprofit organization to benefit people with brain injury. An attorney friend suggested that I purchase this book which gives guidelines for setting up a nonprofit organization in California. Being a novice in the field of start up companies I have found this book to be without exception easy to understand and follow and gives you samples of forms and detailed explanations on how to file them with your local, state, and federal government. I would recommend this book to anyone who is in the process of beginning a nonprofit even if you have previous experience. It gave me the assurance that forms would be filed properly and the advise on writing the bylaws to the company.

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