Tag: How to Form a Non-Profit Organization Step One – Form a Brain Trust
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Public Charity – Getting Started with the Proper Documents
A public charity is another term for the coveted Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)3 status. This designation allows all donations made to the charity to be tax deductible for taxpayers. To obtain this designation, the organization must have the proper provisions within the organizing documents.
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How to Start a Non-Profit Organization: Step 3 – The First Board Meeting
Step three of starting a non-profit organization is gathering the potential board members for the first meeting. In step one; you formed a brain trust to validate the mission of the non-profit organization. In step two; you generated a list of potential board members by identifying sources and creating profiles. In this step, you have to get…
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Fundraising with Bowling – An Effective Event
Raising money while having a good time as a charity can be a challenge. The primary goal of any charity event is to have a good time and remind the participants of the mission of the organization. The secondary goal is to raise money. Bowling brings both attributes to the organization.
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How to Start a Non-Profit Organization: Step 2 – Founding Board Membership
Now that your brain trust has evaluated the idea and has endorsed the concept, it is time to go onto step 2 of the process. You will need to create a founding board to start the non-profit organization. The members of the brain trust provided you with names of potential board members.
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How to Start a Non-Profit Organization: Step 1 – Form a Brain Trust
Before you do anything towards starting a non-profit organization, you need to form a brain trust. This is a group of friends that will add their thoughts to your idea and provide you with a platform to begin the process. Their ideas, questions, suggestions, misgivings, and other thoughts expand your thinking beyond a simple idea…
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Introduction to Non-Profit Organizations – A Comparison to Profit Driven Businesses
This article is about the characteristics of a non-profit organization as compared to those of a profit driven operation. What are the differences? Actually there are NO DIFFERENCES between the two types of operations.