Professional Certificate · Wealth Building Institute
Business Formation & Nonprofit Startup Certificate
How an idea becomes an organization that can open a bank account, sign a contract, and still be standing in five years — entity choice on facts, formation done correctly, and governance that keeps it compliant.
Course 3 is built from the Institute’s nonprofit formation class — the heart of this certificate.
At a glance
The certificate in three numbers
~40 hours · ~10 weeks
About 4 hours a week at the printed pace, practicums included — you draft real documents as you go.
4 courses · 1 formation packet
Entity selection, first-year compliance, 501(c)(3) formation, and governance — capped by a complete formation packet graded line by line.
$497 · one time · yours
Formation knowledge is a founder’s skill and a consultant’s trade at once: churches and community organizations pay for exactly this, done right.
Your guide through the program
Khloe fronts every course in the stack
Open the program and the first face you see is Khloe's. She welcomes you in, walks you through how the program runs, and opens each course with a study-guide briefing — what it covers, what students trip on, and what to do next.
Khloe’s briefings for this program keep one sentence in front of you from the first video: paper first, then doors open.
The stack
Four courses, one credential
Choose it, file it, exempt it, govern it — in that order, with the paper built as you learn.
Entity Selection & Formation · ~11 hours
The entity menu, the S-corp election, choosing on liability, taxes, and paper — then filing day itself, worked as a practicum.
- The entity menu — what each one really is
- The S-corp election — when it pays
- Filing day — the state portal practicum
EIN, Banking & First-Year Compliance · ~9 hours
The EIN done right the first time, business banking and separation, licenses, and a first-year compliance calendar that warns you first.
- The EIN — correctly, the first time
- Business banking and the paper trail
- The first-year compliance calendar
501(c)(3) Formation · ~12 hours
Purposes and limits, articles with the clauses the IRS looks for, bylaws and the founding board, and 1023 vs. 1023-EZ chosen on purpose.
- What 501(c)(3) actually means
- Articles — the clauses the IRS looks for
- Form 1023 vs. 1023-EZ
Governance & Staying Compliant · ~8 hours
Boards that work, money rules, the 990 family, and the revocation traps — how organizations lose exemption by neglect.
- Boards that work — roles, meetings, minutes
- Annual filings — the 990 family
- The revocation traps
The Gate — Readiness Review + Capstone
Assemble a complete formation packet — articles, bylaws, an EIN letter checklist, and a first-year compliance calendar — for a fictional organization, or your real one.
- Certificate Readiness Review — 25 questions at 80%
- No capstone, no certificate — the artifact is the proof
How the certificate is earned
Small gates, honestly set — then one real artifact
- Quick Checks — five questions at the end of every lesson cluster; four of five to move on. Miss it, review, retake — no drama, and no surprises saved up for the end.
- Course Checks — ten questions at 80% at the end of every course in the stack.
- Certificate Readiness Review — 25 questions at 80%, across the whole stack, before the capstone counts.
- The capstone artifact — you assemble a complete formation packet, graded line by line. Graded against the program's published checklist. It is the proof the certificate stands on.
This program is education, not legal advice. It teaches formation knowledge and process; complex situations are routed to counsel — and knowing when is part of the training. The credential is a WBI certificate of completion.
After the certificate
Your next door: formed is the starting line
The closing lesson walks two doors: Community Solutions Financial’s done-for-you formation services, for buyers who would rather hire it done; and the Institute’s Grant Readiness & Proposal Writing Certificate — because a formed nonprofit is a grant student by definition.
Business Formation & Nonprofit Startup Certificate — $497, one time
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