2025 TOOLKITS READY NOW!

Check out the new 2025 Nonprofit Financial Management and Fundraising Toolkit and the 2025 Board of Directors Toolkit, both just released as part of the long-planned 6th Edition of the Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Handbook.

You can still purchase the complete 800+ page printed 5th Edition of the Handbook as well as download individual chapters from the 5th edition as well as the revised 2025 Toolkits and revised individual chapters. The new 2025 Toolkits, as well as chapters from the 5th Edition of the Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Handbook are available digitally as downloads and some are FREE.

Progress Update on the full 6th Edition of the Handbook:

The revised Nonprofit Financial Management and Fundraising Toolkit and the Board of Directors Toolkit are our first big steps toward our goal of completing the 6th edition of the Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Handbook by the end of 2025. We will be posting more updated chapters prepared for the 6th edition to this website as they are completed. Sign up below to receive updates!

The Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Handbook and the digital chapters and toolkits provide expert information on nonprofit legal, financial, tax exemption, and management issues in everyday language. We work to help Board members, founders, new managers, and experienced leaders in community-based nonprofits succeed. We provide clear explanations of Oregon state law, IRS rules and processes, and accounting and financial reporting requirements that have the greatest impact on nonprofit corporations.

While we work on the 6th Edition, we are reducing the price of the 5th Edition to $50.

Update on Oregon Nonprofit Corporation Law:  The Oregon legislature made important changes to Oregon nonprofit law effective January 1, 2020. Please download and review our revised update (by clicking here) before using sample documents and forms from the 5th edition. Be sure you have considered the impact of the 2020 changes as you draft your documents. We look forward to publishing revised versions of the forms and documents as we complete them and as part of the 6th edition. In the meantime, you may want to get legal advice to be sure you are up to date.

Update on Tax Exempt Status: The 6th edition will include updated guidance on submission of application for tax exempt status and requirements to maintain tax exempt status. If you are currently applying for tax exempt status, please be sure you are using the current forms and guidance from the IRS https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/applying-for-tax-exempt-status.