About Us
Our Goal
Rules of the Road for Nonprofits educates nonprofit leaders about the ways they can use nonprofit rules to best achieve their missions. We offer books, articles, webinars, blogs, board training, and small discussion groups. We also help nonprofit leaders keep up-to-date on the fast-moving changes in the law during the second Trump administration.
What's Changed?
Federal funding for nonprofits
DEI
One Big Beautiful Bill
What we Offer
Rules of the Road for Nonprofits: Using the Law to Achieve Your Mission: This book explains the law that guides §501(c)(3) public charities.
What’s Changed? This section of our website keeps the book up to date and helps nonprofit leaders keep track of fast-moving changes.
Nonprofit Rules blog
Webinars and podcasts
Board training
Discussions with other nonprofit leaders
Resources
Elizebeth Schmidt
Elizabeth Schmidt taught nonprofit law and management in colleges and law schools for more than 20 years and is now ready to share that knowledge with nonprofit leaders. She has also served as a nonprofit lawyer, started and run fee-generating businesses within two nonprofits, and been a nonprofit management consultant. In addition to Rules of the Road for Nonprofits, the 4th edition of her book for law students and lawyers, Nonprofit Law: the Life Cycle of a Charitable Organization, will be published in the fall of 2025.