Setting Up a New Not for Profit or Merging
Getting Started
If you want to start a new Not for Profit organisation, we can give you clear, confident advice on how to bring your dream to life. We can:
- Explain the process
- Help you choose the best structure
- Draft documents
- Obtain regulatory approvals
For an overview of the process, please see our flow chart outlining the steps for how to set up a Not for Profit Organisation below:
Steps for how to set up a Not for Profit Organisation
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Together with our corporate team, we can assist with:
- Identifying the most suitable ways to implement a proposed new collaboration whether merger, acquisition, joint venture or other
- Advice on the process for implementing a proposal
- Protecting assets, reducing exposure to liabilities
- Conducting due diligence
- Protecting taxation concession entitlements
- Managing stakeholder relationships
- Drafting the legal documents to give effect to a proposal, including notices of meeting to obtain member approval where necessary
- Liaising with your accountant and senior staff and others where necessary to ensure a smooth transition
- Notifying the relevant government bodies
- Winding up entities
- Stamp duty advice
Not for Profit Topics
Recent Articles
Volunteer cleared to make a stop bullying claim against NFP
The recent decision of Peter Ryan –v- RSL Queensland (“Ryan’s case”) is an important reminder for all not for profit organisations. No matter how big or small, where you have volunteers and employees, volunteers will more than likely be able to access the Fair Work anti bullying regime if they are deemed a worker. In…
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Volunteer or Employee?
The recent decision of Grinholz v Football Federation Victoria Inc. has provided much needed clarity surrounding the classification of volunteers’ vis a vis employees. In this decision, the Fair Work Commission was required to determine whether a coach, who was paid on honorarium was an employee or volunteer for the purposes of an unfair dismissal…
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