Good Counsel is a compact and personable evaluate of the felony wishes of nonprofits, crafted by way of one in all America's so much astute nonprofit basic counsels. The ebook distills the criminal wishes of the 1.8 million tax-exempt organisations within the United States.Written in a transparent and available sort, with lots of humor and storytelling in addition to illustrative case experiences, Good Counsel explains the fundamentals of nonprofit company legislations, governance, and the tax exemption. It then takes a department-by-department examine criminal themes appropriate to software, fundraising, finance, communications, human assets, operations, contracts, executive relatives, and extra. Good Counsel is designed aid companies satisfy their missions to do the general public good.

Designed to impart self belief and demystify the problems, Good Counsel is a must-read for nonprofit execs and board participants in addition to attorneys and legislations scholars. utilizing Good Counsel as their playbook, legal professionals, executives, and trustees can get an summary of the commonest felony, governance, and compliance matters dealing with their association and jointly ramp up a top-notch criminal function.

• Contains perform tips, checklists, and evaluate tools
• Features pattern contracts, licenses, and different shape documents
• Filled with case reports and end-of-chapter concentration questions, in addition to to be had lesson plans for simple school room use by way of educators in company, administration, public coverage, and legislation schools

Good Counsel is the first-of-its-kind guidebook written via the sitting basic tips of an immense nonprofit. Written through influential writer, speaker, and Bar chief Lesley Rosenthal, the final suggestions of Lincoln heart for the acting Arts, Good Counsel stocks the insights of a Harvard legislation tuition graduate with years of in-house and enterprise legislation event in addition to board service.