Before you apply
Prepare your governing documents and make sure your organization is set-up correctly.
Then, determine your charitable purposes and activities and draft them.
Prepare your governing documents
What are governing documents
Types of governing documents, and provisions to include and to avoid
Checklist: governing documents
Interactive questionnaire to determine which documents you need to provide
Determine your charitable purposes and activities
What are charitable purposes and activities
Categories of charitable purposes and their activities
How to write charitable purposes
Copying our examples of charitable purposes, personalizing them, or creating your own purposes
How to describe activities
What information to provide for activities and how to provide them