• Starting Your Nonprofit
  • Fundraising and local Resources
  • Applying for Nonprofit Status
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Starting Your Nonprofit

 Stockton Impact Corps (SIC) works with all types of nonprofits to start-up and create sustainable operations. Whether you are just in the process of creating your organization, or have years of operation under your belt, SIC can help to take some of the mystery out of running a nonprofit. As a nonprofit ourself, we have been through the process of getting started and refining strategy, and can help you do the same.

Stockton Impact Corps offers specific trainings aimed at helping businesses with each step in the process of creating and running a nonprofit:
  • Forming a nonprofit corporation
  • Applying for nonprofit status
  • Fundraising
  • Operations 

Each nonprofit has a different mission and our goal is to help you to achieve this mission as soon as possible. Whether you are a new nonprofit at the initial idea stage, or trying to figure out how to make your nonprofit more effective, Stockton Impact Corps can help you with the process. ​
  • Forming a Corporation
  • Getting your Business License
  • Writing Business Plan
  • Establishing Board of Directors
  • Applying for Nonprofit Status
  • Getting State Nonprofit Status
  • Registry of Charitable Trusts
  • Fundraising
  • Operations

Fundraising

Fundraising is a necessary component to a successful nonprofit. Nearly all nonprofits rely on external funding to maintain operations and create the maximum impact possible for their mission. Stockton Impact Corps works with nonprofits to develop fundraising practices and put them in to place for the long term.
  • Grant Searching and Writing Assistance
  • Approaching private donors
  • Setting up sponsorship programs
  • Creating donation receipts

Connection to Local Resources

Nonprofits thrive when they are able to collaborate with other nonprofits. Businesses thrive when nonprofits purchase local products and work with local businesses.

Stockton Impact Corps knows this and works to create a connected environment among nonprofits and local businesses in Stockton. 

If you feel your nonprofit would benefit from connection to local businesses or other nonprofits for a collaborative relationship, reach out to Stockton Impact Corps to explore.
Nonprofits are meant to focus on mission, not paperwork and applications. Too many great ideas never reach their potential because activists don't know how to set up their business properly. Stockton Impact corps can help you with the process of completing paperwork to apply for nonprofit status:
  • 1023 Application: The typical application for nonprofit status through the IRS is form 1023 or 1023EZ. Form 1023 EZ is a hugely simplified online version of the original application that allows for a faster receipt of the application and faster approval.
Stockton Impact Corps has helped a number of businesses through the process of applying for nonprofit status through the IRS and establishing their base of operations. We are happy to help pass along knowledge so that other individuals may make an impact on the community in Stockton.