The Nonprofit Law Primer.
Practical resources on the rules nonprofits operate under. Governance and fiduciary duties. Tax-exempt status and public-support tests. Lobbying and advocacy rules. Employment and volunteer compliance. Fiscal sponsorship. Written for executive directors, board members, and senior leadership who want to understand the frameworks shaping their work.
Contracts and Grant Agreements: What Nonprofit Leaders Need to Know Before They Sign
Grant agreements are contracts in legal disguise: they bind your organization to deliverables, reporting timelines, indemnity terms, and clawback rights, and the moment to negotiate them is before signing, not after the funder asks for a refund.
The Cost of Complacency: How Nonprofits Lose Their Tax-Exempt Status and How to Keep It
Tax exemption isn't permanent: three years of unfiled 990s triggers automatic revocation, and so do private inurement, excess political activity, and operations that drift from your stated exempt purpose, often before a board notices anything has changed.
What Nonprofit Employers Owe Their Employees Under Federal and State Law
Nonprofit status doesn't exempt you from federal or state employment law, which means your wage-and-hour exposure, benefits obligations, and discrimination liabilities are the same as any for-profit employer's, even when you can't pay market rates.
Navigating Federal Funding Cuts: A Mission and Governance Checklist
Federal funding cuts don't just compress the budget; they force board-level decisions about mission scope, reserve drawdowns, and program triage that should have been mapped before the cuts arrived. Download our checklist.
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