Welcome to RUNQUIST & ASSOCIATES
We are a law firm specializing in nonprofit organizational law, including the incorporation of nonprofit organizations and religious associations and the establishment of federal and state tax-exempt status. We have extensive experience forming, maintaining, merging and dissolving various types of business and nonprofit organizations.
We represent a diverse clientele, ranging from individuals, small nonprofits, and start-up business ventures to major public benefit and religious corporations. Our goal is to provide the highest quality legal representation possible to our clients. Our success is providing legal services promptly and economically.
The ABC's of Nonprofits
Written for practitioners and nonprofit organizations, this guidebook offers a basic introduction to what a nonprofit corporation is; how it is formed, options for organizational structure; operating the corporation; basic tax; and much more.
The book is written in an example format with a practitioner advising a client on the key steps for establishing a nonprofit corporation. A related bibliography is included plus a sample form for an organization addressing a policy on "conflict of interest."
Author: Lisa A. Runquist
Publication Date: April 2005
ISBN: 1-59031-291-0
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IN THE NEWS & ON THE BLOG
- State Attorney General Questions Nonprofit Group's Payment - Courant.com < read more >
- Nonprofits Start Franchising - NPTimes.com < read more >
- Cap on Pay for Nonprofits Dropped - SFGate.com < read more >
- Charities' Own Hard Times - NCRegister.com < read more >
- It's Charity - H'wood Style... Good Looks does not mean good Books - New York Post < read more >
- Bracing for Lean Times Ahead - NYTimes.com < read more >
- Pastors' Web Electioneering Attracts U.S. Reviews of Tax Exemptions - NYTimes.com < read more >
- Phelps Starts His Own Foundation - WashingtonPost.com < read more >
- Pastors Plan to Defy IRS Ban on Political Speech - LATimes.com < read more >
- Illinois Nonprofit Hospital Battles to Protect Tax Exemption - Wall Street Journal < read more >
- New Form for Reporting Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts < read more >
- Form 990-EZ Form Now Amended < read more >
ARTICLES
Responsibilities and Duties of a Director...
With many nonprofit organizations, there has been a tendency to select members of the board of directors on the basis of the prestige these directors will lend to the organization. Many directors respond by regarding the position as an "honorary" or "figurehead" type of position, rather than actively participating in the direction and oversight of the organization.
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Fleecing the Sheep
There are so many fraudulent schemes within the church that an Investor Alert, Preying on the Faithful, was issued by the North American Securities Administrators Association and the Council of Better Business Bureaus. It states:
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Keep it in the family
"The number of church disputes ending up in court has recently increased dramatically. Contrary to the scriptural admonition to settle disputes within the church, civil courts are now full of cases involving churches."
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Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs
"A church may not discriminate on the basis of such characteristics as sex, but it can discriminate on the basis of religion. For example..."
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