How to Incorporate Your Mutual Benefit Corporation

Incorporating your Mutual Benefit Corporation in California is very straightforward and  usually doesn’t take too much time. Below are step-by-step instructions for do so:

1. Choose the Board of Directors

2. Choose a business address

3. Choose an Agent of Service for the MBS

4. Verify that the name of your MBS is available at http://kepler.sos.ca.gov/

5. File your Articles of Incorporation with the State of California

6. Create bylaws for your MBS

7. Hold your first official board of directors meeting

• Make sure to keep the minutes of the meeting

• Approve bylaws

• Appoint the officers who will run the day-to-day operations

• Verify the accounting period

• Acknowledge the the corporation can being operating

• Set up a corporate binder that will hold all of the recently created legal documents. All items should filed and kept on-site.

  For more information, visit the California Corporations Code at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/.html/corp_table_of_contents.html  

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