Starting & Building a Nonprofit: A Practical Guide

by Peri H. Pakroo and Peri Pakroo

Book Overview

Much like starting a typical, for-profit business, starting a nonprofit is a way to achieve your personal goals and make a living at the same time. For many, going the nonprofit route allows them to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1413318479
• ISBN13: 9781413318470
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: NOLO
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

NonProfit Development resource

Excellent book! Goes thru the in and outs and begins from devlopment thru program development and reality. Excellent resource, class textbook for NP Management.

Thorough and easy to read

This book takes the reader from the first steps of creating a nonprofit to maintaining a successful one.

Amazingly Straightforward!

I am in the process of getting a non-profit started to administrate projects and seek grant funding to work in E. Africa, and this book has been AMAZING! Our group is experienced at aid work, but completely inexperienced with the details of how to set up the non-profit, and what things we need to know now to prevent later problems in attaining our 501(c)(3) designation. It is full of practical procedures, written in a simple and straightforward way, and has been very easy to follow. So far, we are sailing through the process with very little problem, mostly because of this info. I'd say this is a must for anyone starting a non-profit on their own without the help of expensive lawyers.

Comprehensive Resource

Excellent content that is both comprehensive and easy to follow. A great way to get the basic knowledge needed to move forward.

An Excellent Book...

I was interested in learning everything that I needed to know about setting up a nonprofit organization, step-by-step. I wanted to know the right questions to ask an attorney and do as much of the groundwork as possible to help save costs. Attorney Peri Pakroo has done a superb job. This book was EXCELLENTLY written, easy to understand, thorough, and presented in a concise format. I found the price to be quite reasonable considering that it ALSO contained a CD that had various checklists. So much of forming a nonprofit organization is just following directions (but you NEED to FOLLOW the directions perfectly) and doing steps A-Z. (There are a LOT of steps!) "Starting and Building a Nonprofit...." made following these directions clear and straightforward to get you through each step. At the same time, because they were featured together - I also ordered "Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Your Nonprofit Organization" by Ms. Cellaneous based on a lot of excellent reviews. In my opinion, it didn't begin to cover the process of all the steps needed to form an organization. Thankfully, I ordered THIS book as well...because frankly, it was the only book I found I needed.