Rules of the Road for Nonprofit Leaders: Using the Law to Achieve Your Mission
Georgetown University Press, August 2025

A “comprehensive and readily accessible guide to help nonprofit leaders use the law to advance their missions,” Rules of the Road for Nonprofit Leaders offers a translation of the convoluted nonprofit legal framework into terms that nonprofit leaders without a law degree can understand. Schmidt provides a lens through which nonprofit leaders can see how these laws can help them pursue their missions and be responsive to the changing needs of the nonprofit sector and of society.

Praise: “This book belongs on the bookshelf of any and every serious nonprofit leader. Schmidt refreshingly encourages
an informed constraints testing approach, which is too often missing in day-to-day practice.” —Ruth McCambridge, co-founder and director of content, Nonprofit Financial Commons, and former editor-in-chief, Nonprofit Quarterly