Bill and Gale Rattner Nonprofit Start-up Workshop

Our Nonprofit Start-up Workshop is designed to help you through the legalities and business issues you'll face in launching your new organization. 

• Incorporate?
  • Reasons to incorporate, reasons not to.
  • Alternatives that can work for you.
  • Completing necessary forms, bylaws, articles of incorporation, and more.
• Best Practices for Nonprofit Start-ups.
  • Basics of budgeting, projecting revenues and costs.
  • Strategies for nonprofit fundraising.
  • Holding directors’ meetings, filling necessary officers’ positions.
  • Key issues in governance for nonprofits.
• Tax Exempt Status -- Do You Need It?
  • The reasons to obtain federal tax exempt status, reasons why you might not need to, and some alternatives that may work for you.
  • How to maintain your tax exemption
  • Other operating issues.
• How to File for 501(c)(3) Status.
  • Line-by-line instructions for completing the tax exemption applications