How to protect your nonprofit
Avoid making your nonprofit a soft target for audits and state repression.
Here’s a graphic overview of what you should consider:
Here’s a webinar covering steps your organization can take to protect itself:
Legal considerations for mutual aid funds
“Can we get sued?” is a top question for many mutual aid organizations. Should be incorporate? What are the risks and benefits to different legal structures? are other top questions. This (admittedly dense) guide runs you through the advantages and disadvantages of various legal structures, including LLCs and nonprofit corporations. Here’s also the nuts and bolts of banking under alternative legal models. Includes NY specific information on food exchanges
Fiscal sponsorship models
With H.R. 9495 potentially putting nonprofits under siege, compounding existing threats to political organizing, here’s what to consider when navigating creating legal infrastructure. Map threats to movement infrastructure, get pointers on navigating material support for terrorism laws, and know your rights when providing mutual aid. Additional resources are linked at the end of the document.
Setting up organizational legal structures
Big-picture questions to consider when establishing a bail fund; options for different legal structures. Technical details on implications for fundraising, etc.