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Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Who Should Use This Book; Features of the Book; How This Book Is Set Up; Preliminary Observations; Illustrative Cases; Part I: An Overview of Nonprofits' Legal Needs; Chapter 1: What Good Counsel Can Do for Nonprofits; What Legal Needs Do Nonprofits Have in Common?; Beyond Laws about Nonprofits: Complying with Business Laws, Too; First Stop for Legal Advice: CYA (Consult Your Attorney); In Sum/Coming Up Next.
Chapter 2: Nonprofit Legal Basics: Corporate Law and the Requirements of the Tax ExemptionThe Benefits of Incorporating; Getting Organized as a Nonprofit Corporation; Following Good Corporate Law Practices; Obtaining Recognition of Tax-Exempt Status; Maintaining Tax-Exempt Status; Meeting Additional IRS Expectations; Chapter 3: Good Counsel about Corporate Governance; What Does the Board Do?; Advocacy and Independent Judgment: Counsel in Relation to the Chief Executive; When Governance Fails: Learning by Negative Example; Part II: A Grand Tour of Nonprofits' Business Law Needs.
Chapter 4: Contracts and Intellectual Property: Laws that Matter to Program StaffUnderstanding the Organization's Program; Contracts: At the Heart of the Program's Legal Arrangements; What Is Intellectual Property (and What Does It Have to Do with Nonprofits?); Copyright Law for Nonprofits: An Introduction; Chapter 5: Counseling the Rainmakers: Legal Aspects of Raising Money; A Lawyer's Introduction to Fundraising; Laws That Matter to Fundraisers; Other Places Where Legal Meets Fundraising; Better Fundraising Through Good Governance and Compliance.
Chapter 6: Laws That Matter to the Finance Department (or Not-for-Profit, but Not-for-Loss Either)Understand the Big Financial Picture; A Year in the Life; Other Places Where Legal and Finance Meet; Chapter 7: Getting Personnel: Human Resources Law for Nonprofits; Human Dynamics, Nonprofits, and the Law; Key Legal Elements of Employment Relationships; Other Laws that Matter to Nonprofit Human Resources Professionals; Chapter 8: Getting the Word Out, Legally: Counseling the Nonprofit Communications Team; Introduction to the Legal Aspects of Nonprofit Communications.
What Nonprofit Marketing Directors Should Know about Trademark LawClearing Rights to Use the Protected Works of Others; Consumer Regulatory Laws; Getting the Word Out, Digitally; Other Places Where Legal Meets Communications; Chapter 9: Legal Meets Operations, Facilities Management, and Security; Laws That Matter to Operations; About Leases; Risk Management and the Chief Operating Officer; Chapter 10: Political Activities and Governmental Lobbying; Thou Shalt Not Politick; Lobbying: Advocacy with Limits; Recordkeeping, Registration, and Financial Disclosure; What Isn't Lobbying?
Chapter 2: Nonprofit Legal Basics: Corporate Law and the Requirements of the Tax ExemptionThe Benefits of Incorporating; Getting Organized as a Nonprofit Corporation; Following Good Corporate Law Practices; Obtaining Recognition of Tax-Exempt Status; Maintaining Tax-Exempt Status; Meeting Additional IRS Expectations; Chapter 3: Good Counsel about Corporate Governance; What Does the Board Do?; Advocacy and Independent Judgment: Counsel in Relation to the Chief Executive; When Governance Fails: Learning by Negative Example; Part II: A Grand Tour of Nonprofits' Business Law Needs.
Chapter 4: Contracts and Intellectual Property: Laws that Matter to Program StaffUnderstanding the Organization's Program; Contracts: At the Heart of the Program's Legal Arrangements; What Is Intellectual Property (and What Does It Have to Do with Nonprofits?); Copyright Law for Nonprofits: An Introduction; Chapter 5: Counseling the Rainmakers: Legal Aspects of Raising Money; A Lawyer's Introduction to Fundraising; Laws That Matter to Fundraisers; Other Places Where Legal Meets Fundraising; Better Fundraising Through Good Governance and Compliance.
Chapter 6: Laws That Matter to the Finance Department (or Not-for-Profit, but Not-for-Loss Either)Understand the Big Financial Picture; A Year in the Life; Other Places Where Legal and Finance Meet; Chapter 7: Getting Personnel: Human Resources Law for Nonprofits; Human Dynamics, Nonprofits, and the Law; Key Legal Elements of Employment Relationships; Other Laws that Matter to Nonprofit Human Resources Professionals; Chapter 8: Getting the Word Out, Legally: Counseling the Nonprofit Communications Team; Introduction to the Legal Aspects of Nonprofit Communications.
What Nonprofit Marketing Directors Should Know about Trademark LawClearing Rights to Use the Protected Works of Others; Consumer Regulatory Laws; Getting the Word Out, Digitally; Other Places Where Legal Meets Communications; Chapter 9: Legal Meets Operations, Facilities Management, and Security; Laws That Matter to Operations; About Leases; Risk Management and the Chief Operating Officer; Chapter 10: Political Activities and Governmental Lobbying; Thou Shalt Not Politick; Lobbying: Advocacy with Limits; Recordkeeping, Registration, and Financial Disclosure; What Isn't Lobbying?