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Disaster Relief Loans for Nonprofits During the Pandemic

What should you do to access disaster relief loans for nonprofits? With shelter-in-place orders, schools closing, and employment law changes, I know lots of nonprofits are scrambling to plan for...
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Virtual Board Meetings For Your Nonprofit: A How-To Guide

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...
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Social Distance Doesn’t Have to Mean Emotional Distance

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...
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I Just Started a Nonprofit… Do I Need Nonprofit Insurance? Part 2

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...
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Nonprofit Tax Status: What Does it Really Mean Anyway?

Time to bust some MAJOR nonprofit myths. Ready? Because it is more than just nonprofit tax status? (more…)
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Do you really know what lawyers do?

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...
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Should Your Minnesota Nonprofit Carry Workers Comp

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...
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