Legal Guide on Internet Activities

October 31, 2002 | Read Time: 1 minute

A new book offers advice on how the laws and regulations that govern nonprofit organizations apply to charities’ activities on the Internet.

The Nonprofits’ Guide to Internet Communications Law discusses such topics as Internet fund raising, online-donation acknowledgment, unrelated-business activity conducted through organizations’ Web sites, and the use of e-mail and the Internet in lobbying.

The book was written by Bruce R. Hopkins, a lawyer in Kansas City, Mo., and the author of numerous legal guides for nonprofit organizations, and published by John Wiley & Sons. “As nonprofit organizations increasingly embrace the benefits and wonders of electronic technology, the ramifications in law will continue to mount,” writes Mr. Hopkins. “Lawyers and others who advise nonprofit organizations are required, if they are to perform effectively, to understand the issues in this area.”

For more information about this publication, see: The Nonprofits’ Guide to Internet Communications Law.

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NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.