The Law of Fundraising (Nonprofit law, finance, & management series) [Hardcover]

Bruce R. Hopkins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0471206121 | ISBN-13: 978-0471206125 | Edition: 3

Completely updated and expanded, this Third Edition of The Law of Fundraisingis the ONLY book to tackle the increasingly complex maze of federal and state fundraising regulations. Written by one of the country's few legal experts on fundraising laws pertaining to tax-exempt organizations, this comprehensive reference details federal and state laws with an emphasis on administrative, tax, and constitutional law. Exploring compliance issues, prospective laws, and regulatory trends, this authoritative resource also provides you with summaries of each state's Charitable Contribution Solicitation Act, the most important regulation impacting fundraising practice and professionals within each state.

This essential guide is filled with a wealth of tables of cases, IRS rulings and pronouncements, an IRS checklist for monitoring charitable fundraising, and sample IRS forms. In addition, The Law of Fundraisingis supplemented annually to keep you on top of all of the latest nonprofit and fundraising legal developments.

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"This book will remain within arms-length of my office chair" (CharityChannel, 6/14/2004)

About the Author

Bruce R. Hopkins is a senior partner in the law firm of Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC. practicing in the firm's Kansas City, Missouri, and Washington, D.C. offices. He specializes in the representation of charitable and other nonprofit organizations, with emphasis on fundraising law issues, charitable giving (including planned giving), the formation of nonprofit organizations, acquisition of recognition of tax-exempt status for them, the private inurement and private benefit doctrines, the intermediate sanctions rules, legislative and political campaign activities issues,public charity and private foundation rules, unrelated business planning, use of exempt and for-profit subsidiaries, joint venture planning, tax shelter involvement, review of annual information returns,and Internet communications development.

Mr. Hopkins served as chair of the Committee on Exempt Organizations, Tax Section, American Bar Association; chair, Section of Taxation, National Association of College and University Attorneys; and president, Planned Giving Study Group of Greater Washington, D.C.

Mr. Hopkins is the series editor of Wiley's Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management Series. In addition to The Law of Fundraising, Third Edition, he is the author of The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, Third Edition; The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations: Strategies and Commentaries; The Tax Law o Associations; the Tax Law of Unrelated Business for Nonprofit Organizations; The Nonprofits' Guide to Internet Communications Law; the Law of Intermediate Sanctions: A Guide for Nonprofits; Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide Fourth edition; Nonprofit Law Made Easy; charitable Giving Law Made Easy; 650 Essential Nonprofit Law Questions Answered the First Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers; the Second Leal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers; the Legal Answer Book for Nonprofit Law Dictionary; and is the coauthor, with Jody Blazek, or Private Foundations: tax Law and Compliance, Second Edition; also with Ms. Blazek, the Legal Answer Book for Private Foundations; and with Thomas K. Hyatt, to The Law of Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations, Second Edition. He also writes Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Counsel, a monthly newsletter, published by John Wiley & Sons.

Mr. Hopkins earned his JD and LLM degrees at George Washington University National Law center, and his BA at the University of Michigan. he is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the Sate of Missouri.

Mr. Hopkins received the 2007 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award (Vanguard Lifetime Achievement Award) from the American bar Association, Section of Business Law, Committee on Nonprofit Corporations. He is listed in the Best Lawyers in America, Nonprofit Organizations/'Charities Law 2007-2008. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 507 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (March 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471206121
• ISBN-13: 978-0471206125
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.1 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,563,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bruce R. Hopkins is a lawyer who divides his time between the writing of books and his monthly newsletter, and the practice of law.

He is a senior partner in the law firm of Polsinelli Shughart PC, practicing in the firm's Kansas City, Missouri, and Washington, D.C., offices. He specializes in the representation of nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations. His practice ranges over the entirety of law matters involving exempt organizations, with emphasis on the formation of nonprofit organizations, acquisition of recognition of tax-exempt status for them, governance and the law, the private inurement and private benefit doctrines, the intermediate sanctions rules, legislative and political campaign activities issues, public charity and private foundation rules, unrelated business planning, use of exempt and for-profit subsidiaries, joint venture planning, tax shelter involvement, review of annual information returns, Internet communications developments, the law of charitable giving (including planned giving), and fundraising law issues.

Mr. Hopkins is the series editor of John Wiley & Sons' Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management Series. He is the author (or, in some instances, co-author) of 26 books that are currently on the market. His first book, The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, was first published in 1975. His most recent book, Fundraising Law Made Easy, was published in 2009. He writes a monthly newsletter, Bruce R. Hopkins' Nonprofit Counsel. All of these publications are published by John Wiley & Sons.

He received the 2007 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award (Vanguard Lifetime Achievement Award) from the American Bar Association, Section of Business Law, Committee on Nonprofit Organizations. He is listed in "The Best Lawyers in America," Nonprofit Organizations/Charities Law, 2007-2010.

He participates in many conferences and seminars, including those sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center, the University of Texas, PESI, AICPA, Salk Institute, and Loyola University (Los Angeles).

He maintains the Nonprofit Law Center, accessible at www.nonprofitlawcenter.com.

He earned his J.D. and LL.M. degrees at the George Washington University National Law Center, and his B.A. at the University of Michigan.

He is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the state of Missouri.