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NonProfit Resource Center
Legal Forms:
- Transactionallegal forms for housing developers
- Community Land Trust Legal Forms
Purchasing Real Estate
-Checklist for Real Estate Purchases
-Title Insurance and Deeds "for Dummies"
SelfHelp Guides
-Self Help Guide to Property Tax Exemption
-Self-Help "Legal Audit" (to do an organizational self-assessment)
-Self Help Guide to obtaining 501(c)(3) Status
Tax Exempt Status
- IRS "Stay Exempt" site (tax basics for exempt organizations)
- IRS On-line Course - Applying for Exempt Status
- IRS web-based mini-courses on 501(c)(3) exemption issues
- IRS guide to "group exemptions"
- IRS - terminating or merging an exempt organization
- "Group" Exemptions - a how-to guide from the IRS
- 24 Common Questions About 501(c)(3) status
- "Unrelated Trade or Business" - a short overview
-"Unrelated Trade or Business" - the IRS's Manual
- Lobbying and Political Activity 501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Status
- IRS "Fact Sheet" on Political Activity by exempt organizations
- IRS Revenue Ruling - "Safe Harbor for developing market rate housing
- Article about the IRS "Safe Harbor" for market rate housing
- Incentive Compentation - is it "private inurement"?
-Tax Exemption for LLCs
Articles on Nonprofit Topics
- IRS Guide to good governance of exempt nonprofit corporations
-Disclosure requirements for non-profits
-Avoiding Liability as a Board Member
 -Fiduciary Duties of Board Members
-Keeping a credible minute book
-Directors and Officers Liability Insurance
 -Board - Staff Relations -  Are you having problems?
-Merger or Consolidation of two nonprofits
-Corporate dissolution - a "how-to" outline under Florida law
Policy Manuals
-Sample Personnel Policy Manual
-Sample Procurement Policy Manual
-Sample Accounting Policy Manual
-Sample Policy for Sexual Harrassment
-Sample Conflicts of Interest Policy (IRS approved)
Housing Development
-Negotiating a Joint Venture Agreement
-Using a Sales Tax Exemption to Lower Construction Costs
-Handbook on operating government funded home repair lending programs
-What is a "Certificate of Use and Occupancy"?
-Limited Liability Companies ("LLCs")
-Putting Together a Housing Development Team
-Ways to re-capture Subsidy in Affordable Housing
-Construction Liens and Bonds (the nuts and bolts)
-Low Income Housing Tax Credits
-How to use the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA)
-The federal HOME Program and how to become a "CHDO"
-Issues with Nonprofits making Home Repair Loans
-The Housing Development Game - a primer (Tom Zuniga)
Business Planning
-Commercial Revialization - An Implementation Outline
-Business Plan Outline
-Business Planning Spreadsheets ("zip" file)
-Business Purchase Checklist
Corporations
-Florida nonprofit corporations (creation docs)
-Florida for-profit corporation (creation docs)
-Sample Bylaws
-Sample Minutes
-Limited Liability Companies ("single member")
-Articles of Amendment (adding 501c3 language)
Tax Issues
-Taxation of LLCs
-IRS Tax Guide for Small Businesses ("pdf" file)
-Get federal "Employer Identification Number" over the internet
-Businesses with Employees - Paying Yourself
Condominium Development
- Florida Condominium Act
Personnel Issues
-"Independent Contractor" vs. "Employee" (avoiding IRS penalties)
 - Human Resources: Reasonable Compensation Reviews
- Guide to Fair Labor Standards Act (a/k/a minimum wage law)