Tips on Starting a Nonprofit: Fundraising Before Exemption

A nonprofit organization that has filed an application for tax-exemption with the Internal Revenue Service may face a waiting period of up to a year or even longer. Because of this waiting period, many nonprofit organizations wonder whether they are able to begin fundraising while they are waiting to hear back from the IRS. In this short video, Erin Bradrick, Senior Counsel at NEO Law Group in San Francisco, discusses the issue of fundraising before receiving an exemption determination letter from the IRS.

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Paralyzed Veterans of America

Since 1946, Paralyzed Veterans of America has been on a mission to change lives and build brighter futures for our seriously injured heroes. We’ve had a single-minded mission—to empower our brave men and women to regain what they fought for: their freedom and independence. The organization was founded by a band of service members who came home from World War II with a spinal cord injury. They returned to a grateful nation, but also to a world with few solutions to the challenges they faced. They made a decision not just to live, but to live with dignity as contributors to society. They created Paralyzed Veterans of America, an organization dedicated to veterans service, medical research and civil rights for people with disabilities.

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Paralyzed Veterans of America

Since 1946, Paralyzed Veterans of America has been on a mission to change lives and build brighter futures for our seriously injured heroes. We’ve had a single-minded mission—to empower our brave men and women to regain what they fought for: their freedom and independence. The organization was founded by a band of service members who came home from World War II with a spinal cord injury. They returned to a grateful nation, but also to a world with few solutions to the challenges they faced. They made a decision not just to live, but to live with dignity as contributors to society. They created Paralyzed Veterans of America, an organization dedicated to veterans service, medical research and civil rights for people with disabilities.

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