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Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records: How to Run Your Nonprofit Corporation So You Don't Run Into Trouble |  | Author: Anthony Mancuso Attorney
Publisher: NOLO
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Pap/Cdr
Pages: 232
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 1413308929
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.456
EAN: 9781413308921
ASIN: 1413308929
Publication Date: September 5, 2008
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Product Description
Nonprofit? Stay out of IRS trouble with the ultimate corporate housekeeping tool!
Nearly 1.5 million nonprofit organizations are busy preserving historic sites, saving libraries, helping the homeless, greening our cities- and so much more. Yet, while some have sophisticated record-keeping systems, most nonprofits are staffed by volunteers who need help running the organization and keeping up a proper -- and legal --paper trail.
Help has arrived! With Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records, you'll get the all-in-one solution every nonprofiteer needs to hold meetings and document actions taken by board members.
Step by step, it walks readers through:
calling meetings
appointing officers
taking minutes
making resolutions
voting on proposals
adjourning meetings
working with a lawyer, if necessary, and
finding a tax adviser.
Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records also provides useful tips and advice on how to do important tasks, such as organizing records, preparing meeting folders, and taking minutes. Plus, all necessary documents are included on the CD-ROM. It's everything you need to keep your nonprofit running smoothly and legally.
Meeting and Minutes Forms
Call, Notice, and Meeting Preparation Forms
Membership Roster
Meeting Summary Sheet
Call of Meeting
Meeting Participant List
Notice of Meeting
Waiver of Notice of Meeting
Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Meeting
Proxy
Approval of Minutes
Minutes and Consent Forms
Minutes of the Annual Meeting of Directors
Minutes of Special Meeting of Directors
Minutes of Annual Meeting of Members
Minutes of Special Meeting of Members
Written Consent to Action Without Meeting
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 Sound advice in an easy to read format November 3, 2008
S. J. Koblentz (Columbus, OH United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Nonprofit Meetings, Minutes & Records (How to Run Your Nonprofit Corporation So You Don't Run Into Trouble) is an easy to read, no nonsense book designed to give the reader uniform information on how to do things correctly in the mostly volunteer world of nonprofit governance.
Having served on numerous Board of Trustees (and Directors) I found that the information was familiar, but exceptionally well presented in plain English (plain as in readable - conversational, not legal), and organized in logical order.
That said, I need to be very clear: this book does not take the place of qualified legal advice that every nonprofit should have. If you serve on a nonprofit or sit on a nonprofit Board, your organization should have a knowledgeable, licensed attorney that you can turn to when matters dictate real legal advice. I would also remind people on Boards that every Board is unique in that they are all the same - meetings must be conducted, minutes kept, bylaws followed. Most importantly ethical behavior MUST be followed by Board members. The Board that operates without an ethical blueprint is lost.
This book instead covers the gamut of high level questions that could come to a body that is organizing, incorporating, constructing bylaws and following through with everything that they would need to do to stay within the confines of the law with usual and customary procedures and forms.
I especially liked the "tips" that pop up at helpful points throughout the text designed to help you simplify where possible.
This book is not a replacement for a book on parliamentary procedure. In fact most nonprofits don't need a complete tome on parliamentary procedure - they just need to know the basic rules for a meeting.
The book contains a CD-ROM of forms which I was able to open, and documents that open in your word processor. I tried mine in Microsoft Office and Open Office and it worked in both environments.
This book would make a welcome addition to any volunteer's library. It also would make a good workbook for a Board of Trustees training session.
Extensive, Quite Thorough, Guide for Keeping Records of Meetings for Nonprofit Organizations August 2, 2010
John Kwok (New York, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those seeking a guide to learn how to run nonprofit organizations, then turn elsewhere. But for anyone interested in a detailed step-by-step guide to record keeping, especially with regards to minutes of board and staff meetings, then this is an invaluable guide. It's also quite extensive. I can't think of a better, more complete, manual for record keeping for nonprofit organizations of the 501c(3) variety.
You won't run into trouble if you read this book! October 22, 2008
Michelle Dunn (NH)
Being on the board of directors of a non-profit organization, I found this book to be an invaluable resource. Many times the office aspect of a non-profit is handled by a volunteer or someone who may not have experience with meetings, keeping records or how to run a business, never mind a non-profit business.
Nolo does it again with Nonprofit meetings, minutes & records, how to run your nonprofit corporation so you don't run into trouble. This book is a MUST for every office of a non-profit organization in my opinion. the book also comes with a CD of the forms and documents to help streamline your record keeping, meetings and other organizational techniques that can help your non-profit be a success without the headaches.
This book tells you everything you need to know from how often the board should meet, the role of the secretary and chairperson, all the different rules you need to know and follow to the laws you need to know and follow. A great little reference for anyone involved in non-profits.
Just the thing for a budding young church October 23, 2008
M. Stone (San Antonio, Texas)
Lost keeping track of our corporate records?
Scared the IRS will put the smack down on your nonprofit?
Here you will find layed out the ins and outs of:
Calling meetings
Appointing officers
Taking and recording minutes
Resolution making processes
Voting on proposals
Meeting adjournment
And finding a tax adviser!
What could be better? Well, having all of your importan documents on a CD-Rom would be better, and that is exactly what comes with the book!
This book is chock full of useful timps and advice on all of the importan organizational tasks your nonprofit is faced with. From organizing record and meeting folders to taking minutes, you are setup to win and stay safe in the nonprofit mine field.
Who needs to pay for legal aid? Well, maybe you do, and if you find yourself in over your head, that is covered too!
There is even a state-by-state guide on nonprofit contacts. Everything I hoped for, and then half again more.
What to do now that you've "gotten involved" October 28, 2008
MissKnowItAll (Brooklyn, NY USA)
If you're at all civic-minded, even if you haven't started your own not-for-profit, you've been convinced to serve on "the board" of a group in which you've been active, usually without any information about what that entails. Usually there will be one or two people who know the buzzwords, and everyone else follows. This is not healthy for the organization or a good use of the board member's time.
This book sets out the basics of corporate governance (yes, the corporate law does apply to not-for-profits, and just because someone is a lawyer s/he may not know much about this), record-keeping, and powers. It explains about when meetings need to be called, and how, and when written consent may be obtained instead. For everyone who has ever been honored with the position of "recording secretary", you have the information as to what belongs in these corporate minutes.
Perhaps the best part of this package is the DVD, which includes various forms, including the form one should be using to keep corporate minutes and the outline for a corporate meeting.
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