Passion Turned Profession · Book I · Starting up
How to Start a Nonprofit With Almost No Money
Most guides start at incorporation. This one starts a chapter earlier, at the question everybody skips: whether you should start one at all.
15 chapters · 156 pages
What it is
There are four legitimate ways to pursue what you are trying to do, and only one of them is a 501(c)(3). Some readers reach Chapter Three, recognize that a simpler structure serves them better, and stop there. That is a successful outcome.
If the answer is yes, the remainder is procedure. The name and the state filing. Bylaws, which are ignored until the day they govern everything. The federal application, both forms and both fees, and which one applies to you. A founding board that is more than three friends in agreement. And a first-year budget that balances.
Then the first ninety days, where most avoidable damage is done.
If you cannot name three things your mission rules out, you have not written a mission. You have written a mood. Book I · How to Start a Nonprofit With Almost No Money
Contents
What is inside.
- 01
Introduction
- 02
What a Nonprofit Actually Is
- 03
The Four Paths
- 04
The Mission
- 05
The Name and the State
- 06
Bylaws and the Founding Documents
- 07
The Federal Application
- 08
The Board
- 09
The First-Year Budget
- 10
Individual Donors and the Ask
- 11
Grants
- 12
Earned Income and the Rest of the Money
- 13
Launch
- 14
The Ordinary Tuesdays
- 15
What Outlasts You
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