As the country hunkers down in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, I'm getting tons of questions about voting member meetings and board meetings and how to hold a virtual board meeting. Here are my...

So, things are…weird. Between school cancellations, hoping you don't run out of toilet paper, calling off big events, and working from home (if you're privileged enough to do that), our routines are being thrown out...

Looking for part one? Read it here! So you’ve started a nonprofit, you have everything in place, and you even saw my conversation with Tom Wertish about D&O insurance. All done when it comes to...

Time to bust some MAJOR nonprofit myths. Ready? Because it is more than just nonprofit tax status? (more…)

What do lawyers do for nonprofits? A lot of my clients came to me for the reasons you’d expect – something got hosed up, they received a scary lawyer-letter, they were facing a HUGE problem...

I know, I know, a lot of Minnesota nonprofits don’t have workers comp. Say you don’t have any employees, only 1099 contractors. Or, everything is run by volunteers. Or, the board is the only people...

Planning a wedding, or a  nonprofit idea, is often a ton of work (assuming you don’t decide to elope). There are a lot of factors to consider, and usually you don’t even know all the...

In my home state of Minnesota, nonprofits can apply for property tax exemption if they use their real estate for mission delivery. Usually this is a faceless process, the nonprofit applies on paper and has...

This is a question I WISH more founders asked me! What kind of insurance do I need? (more…)

When dealing with the idea of becoming a B-corp, a lot of the time the people I meet with have awesome ideas that just don’t need to be a nonprofit, or sometimes they really shouldn’t...