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Form 990 Policy and Memo

Form 990 Series – Public Disclosure Policy and Memorandum

This memorandum includes a sample policy for tax-exempt organizations to ensure they lawfully respond to requests for certain organizational documents as required by the Internal Revenue Code, as well as …

Form 990 Policy and Memo

Form 990 Series – Whistleblower Policy and Memorandum

This memorandum includes a sample whistleblower policy, as well as a discussion of the legal rationale and background for the policy and considerations for implementation. This policy and memo, designed …

Guide

Free Credit Report

Instructions for how to get a free credit report from all three credit reporting agencies, which anyone is entitled to receive at no cost once a year.

External Resource

Free or Low-Cost Bankruptcy Help

A listing of various agencies and services throughout Southern California that offer free and low-cost bankruptcy assistance.

Guide

Getting There Together: Tools to Advocate for Inclusive Development Near Transit [2012]

This guide is a Southern California housing advocates’ guide outlining legal tools for influencing affordable housing and land use and disposition policies in a new era of transit-oriented development and smart growth. It sets forth selected strategies that can be used by advocates at the regional, local, neighborhood, and project-specific levels to meaningfully participate in shaping the landscape of our neighborhoods.

Groundbreaking Settlement in No Vending Zones Litigation Impacts Street Vending Rules in Other Localities

In July 2024, Plaintiffs Community Power Collective, Inclusive Action for the City, East LA Community Corporation and two individual street vendors settled their lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles …

Guide, Toolkit

Guardianship of the Person: Attorney Manual

This manual serves as a step-by-step guide for practitioners on how to obtain a guardianship and Special Immigrant Juvenile Findings (SIJ findings) from the probate division of the California Superior …

Guide, Spanish

Guía de autoayuda “Pro Per” para completar: Queja de PACE del Departamento de Protección Financiera e Innovación de California

Esta guía está destinada a personas que deseen presentar una queja ante el Departamento de Protección e Innovación Financiera de California (“DFPI”), con respecto a su evaluación PACE (“Energía limpia …

Guide, Spanish

Guía de Autoayuda Para Presentar su Propia Apelación de Evaluación Para Propietarios con Gravámenes de PACE en el Condado de Los Ángeles

Esta guía es para personas que desean solicitar la cancelación y el reembolso de los gravámenes PACE en hogares ubicados en el condado de Los Ángeles. Se adjunta una copia …

Guide, Spanish

Guía de Autoayuda: Presentar Quejas ante la Directiva Estatal de Licencias Para Contratistas de California

Esta guía es para las personas que desean presentar una queja ante la Directiva Estatal de Licencias del Contratistas (“CSLB”), con respecto a un contratista con licencia CSLB o empleado …

Guide, Spanish

Guia para Propietarios e Inquilinos Como Provedores de Cuidado Infantil Familiar [Julio 2021]

Los propietarios e inquilinos pueden tener algunas preocupaciones con respecto al funcionamiento de un hogar de cuidado infantil familiar en una propiedad de alquiler. Esta guía proporciona información sobre los derechos de los inquilinos de proveedores de cuidado infantil familiar.

Guide, Spanish

Guía Sobre Leyes de Vendedores Ambulantes (2023)

Esta guía analiza las leyes estatales recientes de venta y los permisos locales necesarios para vender.

Guide

Guidance on New Statewide Laws for Street Vendors (2025)

This guide discusses recent state vending laws and local permits needed to vend.

Guide

Guide For Reinstatement of Good Standing With Corporate and Tax Regulatory Agencies For California Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporations

This publication provides an overview of how to bring a California nonprofit public benefit corporation exempt from taxation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code and Section 23701d of the California Revenue and Taxation Code into compliance with the California Secretary of State, California Attorney General, California Franchise Tax Board, and Internal Revenue Service.

Guide

Guide to Commercial Leases

Our Guide to Commercial Leases provides a general introduction to the typical provisions found in a commercial lease and discusses key issues that nonprofits and small businesses should consider before entering into a lease. This Guide will be useful to organizations considering a proposed lease as well as those who want to better understand the terms of a current lease.

Guide

Guide to Forming A Charitable, Tax-Exempt, Nonprofit Organization

This guide provides a basic overview of the process, and a discussion of some of the issues to consider in determining whether to form a nonprofit tax-exempt organization.

Guide

Guidelines for Releasing Children

As a child care provider, you have a legal obligation to protect and care for each child in your care. This obligation encompasses who you release a child in your care to and under what circumstances you release a child. Releasing a child to an unauthorized individual could pose legal problems for a child care provider and result in revocation of a provider’s child care license.

Guide

Housing Assistance Benefits

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Report

How Maturing Subsidized Mortgages Threaten Affordable Housing in Los Angeles [2012]

Much of LA’s affordable housing risks being lost in the next few years due to the maturity of subsidized mortgages. This report describes what’s at risk and what responses are …

Guide

How to Complete the Adversary Proceeding Cover Sheet Self-Help Guide

Unless you file your adversary proceeding case electronically, your adversary proceeding complaint must be filed with a completed Adversary Proceeding Cover Sheet (Official Form 1040). The clerk of court needs …

Guide

How to Prepare a Federal Case

This guide will walk you through the necessary elements of a lawsuit so that you can decide whether or not you should file one.

Guide

How to Write an Adversary Proceeding Complaint Self-Help Guide

An adversary proceeding is a lawsuit that relates to a bankruptcy case. There are a number of reasons to file an adversary proceeding. A creditor might file an adversary proceeding …

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