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A Nonprofit Capacity Self-Assessment Workbook
For Rural Community-Based Housing Organizations

Permission is granted ONLY to nonprofit community-based organizations to reproduce and/or adapt this document, and only for their own use.

FOOTNOTES

¹ Drucker, Peter. F. 1993. The Five Most Important Questions You Will Ever Ask About Your Nonprofit Organization. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

² If your organization does not have articles of incorporation or bylaws drafted and approved, you will need much more time to complete the preparation steps for the workbook. Your organization may want to postpone beginning the workbook until your board has drafted, revised and approved your articles of incorporation and bylaws.

³ Processing time for an Employer Identification Number is usually 10 days.

⁴ Processing time for Form 1023 is usually 100 days.

⁵ Facilities are defined as property and equipment that are a permanent part of the organization (including rental projects that the group owns), not housing or buildings intended for sale or transferral to constituents or other organizations.

⁶ "FY 1999 Funding Awards for the Community Development Technical Assistance Programs." Federal Register: May 8, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 89) Notices, Page 26625-26627.

⁷ Adapted from How to Start a Cooperative, Cooperative Information Report 7, United States Department of Agriculture, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Galen Rapp and Gerald Ely, Revised September 1996.