Public Webinar: How Your 501(c)(3)’s Recordkeeping Can Enhance Your Advocacy Potential

Recordkeeping and reporting compliance is an important strategy for effective advocacy. Proper recordkeeping is essential to meeting your advocacy goals. It can help your organization comply with filing obligations, obtain funding, inform strategic planning, and stay focused on your mission.

Participants will learn:

• How to track your lobbying time and expenses so that your 501(c)(3) organization stays within its lobbying limits;  
• How a 501(c)(3) reports its lobbying to the IRS, such as on the Form 990 or Form 990-EZ;  
• How tracking and reporting varies depending on whether a charity measures its lobbying under the insubstantial part test or the 501(h) expenditure test;  
• How state and local law may require additional tracking and reporting; and  
• Various options for keeping track of lobbying activities and expenditures.