The Second Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers (Wiley Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) [Paperback]

Bruce R. Hopkins (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471387738 | ISBN-13: 978-0471387732 | Publication Date: October 12, 2000

Second to none in critical legal information for enhancing the results of charitable fund-raisers in the new millennium

As the competition for gifts grows increasingly intense in the new millennium, managers and fund-raisers for charitable organizations must learn how to work with tax and business law to optimize their return. Written by the leading legal authority on the law regulating charitable fund-raising, this companion to the indispensable First Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers provides more accessible approaches to understanding federal and state laws and offers additional solutions to enhance an organization's wealth and effectiveness. Bruce Hopkins clearly explains to fund-raisers the pertinent aspects of the law, enabling them to dramatically increase funding without legal missteps. He also thoroughly details the steps needed to solve the fund-raiser's most pressing legal headaches, including the troublesome intermediate sanctions rules, property valuation issues, the gift substantiation rules, disclosure requirements, estate planning, the securities and antitrust laws, IRS audits, and much more.

This book provides critical answers to fund-raisers' questions such as:
* How do the intermediate sanctions rules apply to fund-raisers?
* What are the rules as to property valuation?
* How do the gift substantiation and quid pro quo contributions rules work?
* What disclosure rules apply?
* What rules apply to auctions and other special events?
* What should the fund-raiser know about estate planning?
* How do the postal, securities, and antitrust laws apply?
* How does the IRS audit fund-raising?
* What are the major changes in the law since publication of The First Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers?


With its comprehensive coverage of the legal issues that charitable organizations engaging in fund-raising face, The Second Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers, combined with The First Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers, is a powerful resource-and first-choice reading that every fund-raiser must have.

www.wiley.com/nonprofit

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From the Back Cover

Second to none in critical legal information for enhancing the results of charitable fund-raisers in the new millennium

As the competition for gifts grows increasingly intense in the new millennium, managers and fund-raisers for charitable organizations must learn how to work with tax and business law to optimize their return. Written by the leading legal authority on the law regulating charitable fund-raising, this companion to the indispensable First Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers provides more accessible approaches to understanding federal and state laws and offers additional solutions to enhance an organization’s wealth and effectiveness. Bruce Hopkins clearly explains to fund-raisers the pertinent aspects of the law, enabling them to dramatically increase funding without legal missteps. He also thoroughly details the steps needed to solve the fund-raiser’s most pressing legal headaches, including the troublesome intermediate sanctions rules, property valuation issues, the gift substantiation rules, disclosure requirements, estate planning, the securities and antitrust laws, IRS audits, and much more.

This book provides critical answers to fund-raisers’ questions such as:

• How do the intermediate sanctions rules apply to fund-raisers?
• What are the rules as to property valuation?
• How do the gift substantiation and quid pro quo contributions rules work?
• What disclosure rules apply?
• What rules apply to auctions and other special events?
• What should the fund-raiser know about estate planning?
• How do the postal, securities, and antitrust laws apply?
• How does the IRS audit fund-raising?
• What are the major changes in the law since publication of The First Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers?

With its comprehensive coverage of the legal issues that charitable organizations engaging in fund-raising face, The Second Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers, combined with The First Legal Answer Book for Fund-Raisers, is a powerful resource–and first-choice reading that every fund-raiser must have.

www.wiley.com/nonprofit

About the Author

BRUCE R. HOPKINS is the country's leading authority on the law of tax-exempt organizations and a lawyer with the firm Polsinelli, White, Vardeman, and Shalton. He is the author of twelve books, including The Legal Answer Book for Nonprofit Organizations; The Second Legal Answer Book for Nonprofit Organizations; The Law of Tax-Exempt Organizations, Seventh Edition; The Law of Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations; The Law of Fund-Raising, Second Edition; Private Foundations: Tax Law and Compliance; Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization: A Legal Guide, Third Edition; and The Tax Law of Charitable Giving, Second Edition, as well as the monthly newsletter The Nonprofit Counsel, all published by Wiley.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (October 12, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471387738
• ISBN-13: 978-0471387732
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #791,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.