Setting up a nonprofit can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. In Nonprofit Setup Simplified, award-winning author and experienced nonprofit founder Michele L. Whetzel provides a clear, step-by-step roadmap to turn your idea into a fully operational nonprofit—without the headaches and backtracking.

Drawing from personal experience and lessons learned while founding multiple nonprofits, this essential guide will help you avoid common pitfalls and costly mistakes. You will learn the key steps for creating a nonprofit in the right order to get up and running quickly.

This essential guide breaks down the process into actionable chapters, including:

· Name and elevator pitch

· Choose the right board

· Qualify for 501(c)(3) status

· Apply for your EIN

· Incorporate your nonprofit

· Develop your logo, branding

· Create website and database

· Press releases

The appendices and supplemental materials offer a host of additional tools including mission and vision statements, articles of incorporation, and other sample documents and links.

Readers are saying:

This book offers “clear step-by-step guidance for making an organization official. The name selection part was especially helpful” in teaching what to do and what not to do when selecting a nonprofit name. – Stephanie Cory, Nonprofit Consultant, Facilitator & Trainer

“Nonprofit Setup Simplified, delivers just what the title promises. The author, Michele Whetzel, provides a clear, step-by-step account of the many ins and outs of setting up a nonprofit. From anyone just dreaming of a nonprofit to fill a need, to someone already in the process and feeling a bit lost or bogged down, this is a terrific resource. Each chapter contains the specific steps needed, with links to many resources and government sites that can or need to be used. The appendices give full examples of documents that need to be generated at various stages of the creation of a nonprofit, again with links to help along the way. The author's hands-on experience is very clear and will save anyone setting up a nonprofit a good deal of time and potential pitfalls.” – Dr. Debra J. deTreville, retired visiting history prof., North Carolina State University

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