How to Be a Global Nonprofit: Legal and Practical Guidance for International Activities Legal and Practical Guidance for International Activities

Solid guidance for the complex legal issues faced by international nonprofits

When a nonprofit operates across borders, whether by making grants or directly operating programs, the interaction among legal requirements of two or more countries quickly becomes highly complex. How To Be A Global Nonprofit fills a need for legal and practical guidance for nonprofit organizations with international activities, and includes ten case studies to provide insights into the ways real organizations have dealt with various legal and practical issues.

Along the way, it skillfully explores alternatives for advancing a nonprofit's mission across borders, while also looking at the legal and practical issues nonprofits encounter as they work internationally.
* Includes ten case studies based on interviews with large and small international nonprofits
* Offers a realistic sense of the complexity of legal and practical issues global nonprofits face
* Features a companion website with a variety of online tools and materials related to key concepts discussed in this book

Not long ago international philanthropy was the province of large organizations like the Red Cross, UNICEF, and Save the Children. This has radically changed. How to Be a Global Nonprofit thoroughly explores the legal and practical issues nonprofits encounter as they work internationally and the resources required to deal with them.

How To Be A Global Nonprofit is intended to fill a need for legal and practical guidance for nonprofit organizations with international activities. More often than not, the founders of these organizations are driven by passion, but have little sense of the complexity of legal and practical issues they will face and the resources required to deal with those issues. A basic understanding of these matters from the outset could save so many organizations from failure. Armed with practical knowledge, their founders passion and resources could be more efficiently deployed in pursuit of the mission. The book includes nine case studies based on interviews with large and small international nonprofits, to provide insights into the ways real organizations have dealt with various legal and practical issues. Chapters include: Chapter One. So You Want To Be A Global Nonprofit? Chapter Two. International Grantmaking For Public Charities Chapter Three. International Grantmaking For Private Foundations Chapter Four. Going Deeper: Operating a Foreign Program Chapter Five. Forming and Operating Through a Foreign Affiliate Chapter Six. Staffing Foreign Operations: Employees and Volunteers Chapter Seven. Raising Funds Globally Chapter Eight. Additional U.S. Laws and Reporting Requirements Chapter Nine: Additional Foreign Legal and Practical Considerations Chapter Ten. Evolution of a Global Nonprofit: Half the Sky Foundation Appendix A. Glossary of Terms Appendix B. Additional Resources Appendix C. U.S. Bilateral Income Tax Treaties

Solid guidance for the complex legal issues faced by international nonprofits When a nonprofit operates across borders, whether by making grants or directly operating programs, the interaction among legal requirements of two or more countries quickly becomes highly complex. How To Be A Global Nonprofit fills a need for legal and practical guidance for nonprofit organizations with international activities, and includes ten case studies to provide insights into the ways real organizations have dealt with various legal and practical issues. Along the way, it skillfully explores alternatives for advancing a nonprofit's mission across borders, while also looking at the legal and practical issues nonprofits encounter as they work internationally. Includes ten case studies based on interviews with large and small international nonprofits Offers a realistic sense of the complexity of legal and practical issues global nonprofits face Features a companion website with a variety of online tools and materials related to key concepts discussed in this book Not long ago international philanthropy was the province of large organizations like the Red Cross, UNICEF, and Save the Children. This has radically changed. How to Be a Global Nonprofit thoroughly explores the legal and practical issues nonprofits encounter as they work internationally and the resources required to deal with them.