State Solicitation Rules Posted on the Internet

August 26, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute

Fund raisers can turn to a new on-line compendium to check charitable-solicitations requirements in the 50 states.

Raffa & Associates, an accounting firm in Washington, has added a section to its Web site that explains registration requirements for charities that want to solicit residents of particular states. The site provides contact information for the agencies that regulate fund raising and links to the text of the state laws that govern charitable solicitation.

Charts list the annual filing date for each state and which states allow charities to raise money before they complete registration requirements (such as when a group only expects to raise a small sum).

TO GET THERE: Go to http://www.raffa.com/interior/charsolic.html.

About the Author

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.