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Cherie Evans - So You Want to Start a Nonprofit?

Along with clear tax benefits, starting a nonprofit means forms to file, rules to follow, and records to keep. How do you obtain public charity status?  What are the pros and cons?  Are there other options? In this audio lecture, corporate tax attorney Cherie Evans provides a step-by-step guide on the legal aspects of setting up and running a charitable organization to her 2007 Nonprofit Boot Camp audience.

Silence=Bad Strategy

By Jennifer Holloway

How failing to speak up leads nonprofit boards to persist with mislaid plans.

Moving Beyond Reproach

By Peter Manzo

Accountability proposals should focus more on ways to help nonprofits deal with actual ethical crises.

What We Really Need

By Jan Masaoka & Jeanne Bell Peters

Eight reforms to make nonprofits more accountable and effective.

Failing to Govern?

By Michael Klausner & Jonathan Small

The disconnect between theory and reality in nonprofit boards, and how to fix it.