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Summary: EVERYTHING you need to start a Nonprofit is in this book!
Review: As a consultant to community service groups, I recommend this book to each and every one of my clients. If you're looking to start a nonprofit organization, it has everything you need to know to start a 501(c)(3) without hiring a lawyer for hundreds or thousands of dollars. The book walks you through the state incorporation process and the federal/IRS application process; it includes copies and a computer disk with pre-formatted samples of: letters, Articles of Incorporation, Organization Bylaws, Meeting Minutes formats, and more. It also takes you step-by-step through the IRS Form 1023, which you must complete for 501(c)(3) determination. This detailed information about the Form 1023 is MOST helpful for anyone looking to start a nonprofit group!
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Summary: The most useful book ever
Review: Before buying this book, our group spent thousands in legal fees trying to figure out how to form a nonprofit to help save our children's school library. After reading this book, we got the nonprofit up and running -- and yes, the school library is alive and even expanding! The instructions were clear, the "Real English" style helped, the forms were accompanied with line by line instructions. We checked out other books, but this is the only one that addressed our needs. It's an amazing, amazing book. Thank you, Mr. Mancuso!
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Summary: This is THE guide to establishing a 501(c)3 non-profit!
Review: How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation is the simplest, straight-foward, plain english help available for groups trying to organize themselves as a tax-exempt non profit organization! Mancuso gives clear real-life examples and self tests to determine which of a plethora of options is the right one for your org., as well as suggested language to satisfy every scrutinous section in your exemption application. Don't even THINK about trying to go at it without this book at your side.
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Summary: The road to dereliction is paved with good intentions
Review: I genuinely applaud Nolo for the concept of bringing the law to people in a user friendly package. In execution, these books give me cold sweats. After reading this book I'd tell my friends that if they are solely relying on this book to form a non-profit of any sophistication, longevity, and expected reliance by contributors they are crazy and irresponsible. To quote one expert, "The corporate landscape is littered with derelict suspended non-profit corporations...", and in my opinion this book will add many such carcasses to the NOP landfill, and lots of well meaning people may suffer. This book missed dozens of important issues a founder or advisor needs to carefully consider and research before forming this legal entity. When the author doesn't want to deal with one of the complex and potentional hazardous issue areas you're told to research the issue at your local law library - sure. My review is simply this; This book is the poster child for why "self-help" books should not be giving legal advice. If you use this book as general interest and background, it's OK, though not particularly well written. If your purpose is do-it-yourself incorporation, you're making a mistake. Put this on the shelf next to Nolo's "How to do your own root canal".
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Summary: I recommend this to everyone who asks about nonprofits
Review: I have started 4 companies in the past, my first nonprofit 2 years ago. I didn't know anything about them and this book taught me everything I needed to know to get going. I am frequently asked how to start a nonprofit by friends and I always just point them to this book. Even if you intend to use a lawyer to incorporate (which I recommend, also), this book will educate you on the things you need to know to understand the process.
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Summary: Only covers 501(c)(3) corporations
Review: No summary or review states that the book is limited to one type of 501(c) corporation. I bought this book thinking it covered all types. Wrong! It's only good for the few types that qualify as tax-exempt 501(c)(3). I'm starting a neighborhood association, which falls under 501(c)(4), which this book doesn't cover. I would not have ordered the book if I'd known it was so limited.
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Summary: really detailed
Review: this book really gives you all the required info minus the lawyer fees. even gives you the web links to the states that have incorporation forms online. Now i just need to find 3 more people dedicated to my cause to form one in my state
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Summary: Great info, easy to follow
Review: This book was an excellent resource when I needed to brush up on non-profit formation. for a "rookie" like me, it did a great job of informing me of all of the information I needed, as well as when I might need to seek more professional assistance.
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Summary: Great do-it-yourself book, but be careful
Review: This is a great book which walks you through the steps of nonprofit incorporation, but just be careful and allow enough time to double-check crucial information with your state Attorney-General's office.
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Summary: The First Place to Look
Review: This is the very best work I have found to date which totally describes the process of forming a non-profit corporation in terms most people could understand. Well worth a look! You'll wish you started here first!
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