The Law of Fundraising is the Only Book to Tackle the Increasingly Complex Maze of Federal and State Fundraising Regulations

Business Wire, March 25, 2008

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c86577) has announced the addition of "The Law of Fundraising, 2008 Cumulative Supplement, 3rd Edition" to their offering.

Completely updated and expanded, this Third Edition of The Law of Fundraising is the ONLY book to tackle the increasingly complex maze of federal and state fundraising regulations. Written by one of the country's few legal experts on fundraising laws pertaining to tax-exempt organizations, this comprehensive reference details federal and state laws with an emphasis on administrative, tax, and constitutional law. Exploring compliance issues, prospective laws, and regulatory trends, this authoritative resource also provides you with summaries of each state's Charitable Contribution Solicitation Act, the most important regulation impacting fundraising practice and professionals within each state.

This essential guide is filled with a wealth of tables of cases, IRS rulings and pronouncements, an IRS checklist for monitoring charitable fundraising, and sample IRS forms. In addition, The Law of Fundraising is supplemented annually to keep you on top of all of the latest non-profit and fundraising legal developments.

The 2008 Cumulative Supplement contains updates on the following subjects:

-Law aspects of charitable fundraising by means of the Internet

-Intermediate sanctions rules

-Corporate sponsorship rules

-IRS Implementing Guidelines for government fiscal years 2002 to 2007

-Revised and considerably revamped application for recognition of exemption filed by non-profit entities that wish to be tax-exempt charitable organizations (Form 1023)

-Litigation relating to the national do-not-call registry rules

-Three sets of new rules relating to charitable fundraising issued by the U.S. Postal Service

Author's bio:

Bruce R. Hopkins is a senior partner in the law firm of Polsinelli Shalton Flanigan Suelthaus PC. practicing in the firm's Kansas City, Missouri, and Washington, D.C. offices. He specializes in the representation of charitable and other non-profit organizations, with emphasis on fundraising law issues, charitable giving (including planned giving), the formation of non-profit organizations, acquisition of recognition of tax-exempt status for them, the private inurement and private benefit doctrines, the intermediate sanctions rules, legislative and political campaign activities issues, public charity and private foundation rules, unrelated business planning, use of exempt and for-profit subsidiaries, joint venture planning, tax shelter involvement, review of annual information returns, and Internet communications development.

Contents:

Chapter One. Government regulation of Fundraising for Charity: Origins and the Contemporary Climate.

Chapter Two. Anatomy of Charitable Fundraising.

Chapter Three. States' Charitable Solicitation Acts.

Chapter Four. State Regulation of Fundraising: Legal Issues.

Chapter Five. Federal Regulation of Fundraising.

Chapter Six. Prospective Federal Regulation of Fundraising: Proposals and Issues.

Chapter Seven. Overviews, Perspectives, and Commentaries.

Chapter Eight. Standards Enforcement by Watchdog Agencies.

Appendices..

Cumulative Table of Cases

Cumulative Table of IRS Pronouncements.

Cumulative Table of Cases Discussed in Bruce R. Hopkins' Non-profit Counsel.

Cumulative table of Private Letter Rulings and Technical Advice Memoranda.

Cumulative Index.

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