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Michigan — Professional Fund Raiser - All Other Organizations Bond

Michigan's charitable professional fundraiser uses the $10,000 CTS-08 undertaking with CTS-07 licensing. This is the Charitable Organizations and Solicitations Act route, separate from public-safety fundraising. Prepare the actual licensed business, required authority and charity contracts before solicitation; the license expires June 30.

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Recorded state
Michigan
Bond type
Charitable Solicitation / Fundraiser Bond
Category
Business operations & taxes

What this bond does

Provide the professional fundraiser security for licensing under 1975 PA 169 using the Attorney General's Uniform Professional Fund Raiser Surety Bond.

Who needs it
The professional fundraising business serving charitable or religious organizations under the Solicitations Act. A qualifying advice-only consultant has a specific exemption test in CTS-07; individual solicitors retained to contact donors have separate registration duties.
Who it protects
CTS-08 benefits Michigan's people, charitable organizations and other persons with causes of action for the principal's solicitation malfeasance or misfeasance, including employed professional solicitors. Reimbursement follows a final Attorney General decision or court judgment. All judgments and final decisions share the $10,000 aggregate.

Your bond option

This is the option on record for this bond.

The bond amount describes the limit of the bond obligation, not the price. A listed amount does not establish what the requesting party requires. The premium is what you pay and must be confirmed for the actual option. An E&O limit, where listed, is separate errors and omissions insurance.

Details for CTS-08 and June 30 licensing

Match the legal and assumed business names to CTS-07. Use this All Other Organizations option for charitable professional fundraising under PA 169, not the separate Public Safety Solicitation Act. The Attorney General's charitable programme specifies $10,000 and CTS-08; do not substitute the public-safety first-year or renewal brackets.

CTS-08 is continuing from the entered effective date and covers employed solicitors' malfeasance or misfeasance. It preserves coverage when corporate officers change, but a business-name change must be filed with the Attorney General. Keep current solicitation contracts and records available as the form requires.

Prepare principal and surety authorized signatures/titles, their witnesses, the surety's national/local addresses and the current-dated Power of Attorney properly signed by the surety. Cancellation by either principal or surety requires ninety days' written certified-mail notice to the other party and the Charitable Trust Section. The form releases breaches occurring after the effective cancellation date, not every earlier act.

All licenses expire June 30. For renewal with the original security already on file, CTS-07 requires a continuation certificate through June 30 of the new license year. The form permits mail or email submission; use its current instructions and provide the full application rather than only a continuation.

Initial applications require organizing documents and listed owners/officials, Michigan resident-agent information and offices. Submit the required contract schedule, contracts and CTS-11 for new contracts, CTS-09 for each retained individual solicitor, and outstanding campaign statements. The programme requires CTS-10 within ninety days after campaign end and yearly for an ongoing campaign.

CTS-07's consultant exemption requires all four conditions: fixed compensation not based on funds raised; advice-only work without solicitation; no receipt or control of solicited funds/property; and no compensated people engaged to solicit, receive or control it. Calling the business a consultant alone does not establish the exemption.

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Have these ready

  1. Confirm the charitable PA 169 route rather than public-safety fundraising, or assess all CTS-07 consultant conditions.
  2. Match the principal's legal/assumed names and prepare the accepted $10,000 CTS-08 condition.
  3. Arrange authorized signatures, witnesses, surety addresses and current-dated surety Power of Attorney.
  4. Plan June 30 licensing and the required continuation through the new license year.
  5. Complete CTS-07 attachments, contract filings, individual solicitor registrations and campaign statements.

Questions about this bond

Is this the same requirement as Michigan public-safety fundraising?

No. The charitable Solicitations Act programme uses $10,000 CTS-08 and CTS-07 licensing. Public-safety fundraising has its own Act, registration and different security requirements. Describe the organization served before choosing the undertaking.

Does calling my business a consultant remove the licensing requirement?

Not by itself. CTS-07 lists four conditions covering compensation, advice-only work, lack of control over contributions and no engagement of compensated soliciting/handling personnel. The actual arrangement must satisfy all four.

What follows Purchase Now?

Propeller's Michigan Professional Fund Raiser, All Other Organizations application opens in a new tab. Match the charitable role, principal, accepted $10,000 CTS-08 condition, dates and signed authority, then complete licensing and separate filings. Payment does not issue the state license or register individual solicitors.

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