I haven't but wanted to pass this and this along, if you haven't already run across them.

Dissadvantage: quarterly instead of yearly filing.

Advantages:
If you are buying much stuff, the not paying sales tax.
Check craigslist "free," sometimes NPOs can only give stuff
away to other NPOs, (can't destroy or dispose of.)

Fundraising:
Works best if you have some kind of event or other
deadline-oriented thing that must happen now. Make
some kind of emergency.

Yeah, I have, a couple of them. I'm not sure what you're asking for, though. Are you serving on the board or as an officer?

The stressful advice is that everything you do in the first year really matters. Share leadership and get a lot of cheerleaders. Talk about it nonstop and bring your flyers wherever you go. Capitalize on the startup energy, because it doesn't last. Put effort into structure and organization early on, because good people will drop away quickly if they start to smell disorganization or waste.

What else are you wanting to know?

I'm the provisional legal counsel, as well as permanent moral support of the person starting it up. I know how to do the incorporation filings (and have professional resources to draw on if I come up against something I'm not sure of), so I'm really just looking for what to do as the personal support network.

My sister manages donor relationships for a major philanthropy, so she has lots of information about working with a well-established NPO, but I don't know anyone who has started one, so I don't really know what we're in for.

I guess it's practical advice explaining things like "put effort into structure and organization early on". Are there some goals which are just silly for the first year? We will be too unsympathetic if we recoup business expenses (domain hosting, for instance) in the early years from donations? Those sorts of things.