The California Nonprofit Corporation Kit

• line-by-line instructions for completing your application
• instructions and completed sample clauses for preparing Articles of Incorporation
• ready-to-use bylaws for membership and non-membership nonprofits
• ready-to-use minutes for the organizational meeting
• California's specific nonprofit legal and tax requirements
• updated tax and legal information
  
  all the forms you need as tear-outs and on a CD-ROM
  
  The included corporate binder helps you keep all the necessary corporate documents and records together in one place to be filled in and referred to over during the life of your corporation. The kit also includes:
• a corporate binder with index dividers to organize your documents and records
• 10 membership certificates
  
  The 6th edition is completely updated to provide the latest rules and forms, which are provided as tear-outs and on CD-ROM. It's also available in a book-only format How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California. (ISBN 9781413306491, 12th edition)

Form a California nonprofit and keep everything organized!

Thousands of arts groups, educators, social-service agencies and others have used this bestseller -- which provides a records binder to help keep everything organized -- to organize. It's so easy to use, anyone can do it!

With a nonprofit corporation, you gain recognition, save money, become eligible for grants, and protect your members and directors from liability. And you can do all this without an attorney.

The 7th edition is completely updated to provide the latest rules and forms, which are provided as tear-outs and on CD-ROM. It's also available in a book-only format How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation in California.

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If you re thinking of forming a nonprofit corporation in California, you ll find this handbook invaluable.

Anthony Mancuso is a corporations and limited liability company expert. He graduated from Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, is a member of the California State Bar, writes books and software in the fields of corporate and LLC law, and studies advanced business taxation at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He has also been a consultant for Silicon Valley EDA (Electronic Design Automation) companies, most recently working on a C++ open-source integrated circuit database project team. He is the author of several Nolo books on forming and operating corporations (both profit and nonprofit) and limited liability companies. His titles include Incorporate Your Business, How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation (national and California editions), Form Your Own Limited Liability Company, The Corporate Records Handbook, and LLC or Corporation?. He wrote and programmed Nolo’s LLC Maker and Incorporator Pro software programs, which generate state-by-state articles and other forms for organizing corporations and LLCs. His books and software have shown over a quarter of a million businesses and organizations how to form a corporation or LLC. He also is a licensed helicopter pilot and has performed for years as a guitarist in many musical idioms.