Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses
Section 34 - Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations; Membership; Investments

Section 34. Any organization organized under the laws of the commonwealth, if eligible for membership, may become a member of The Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations, a New York nonprofit membership corporation authorized under section eight E of chapter twelve to operate in the commonwealth and organized to aid and strengthen such corporations, community chests, funds and foundations as are organized and operated exclusively for nonproprietary and nonprofit-making purposes and otherwise eligible for membership by providing means for the investment of their funds in shares or interests in one or more common funds. Any such organization may, either as fiduciary or otherwise, and in addition to any other lawful investment, invest any part or all of the funds which it holds for investment in shares or interests in a common fund or funds established by The Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations; provided, however, that in the case of funds held as fiduciary, such investment is not prohibited by the language of the will, deed or other instrument creating the fiduciary relationship.

Structure Massachusetts General Laws

Massachusetts General Laws

Part I - Administration of the Government

Title XI - Certain Religious and Charitable Matters

Chapter 68 - Donations and Conveyances for Pious and Charitable Uses

Section 1 - Corporate Bodies, Church Officers As

Section 2 - Corporate Bodies; Status of Ministers and Lay Officials

Section 3 - Management of Trusts; Appointment of Trustees; Rules and Regulations

Section 4 - Corporate Bodies, Trustees As

Section 5 - Succession of Parsonage Land

Section 6 - Regulation of Conveyances of Church Land

Section 7 - Conveyance of Land by Minister

Section 8 - Committees to Settle Accounts of Officers

Section 10 - Overseers or Trustees of Monthly Meeting of Quakers as Corporation

Section 11 - Monthly Meeting of Quakers; Appointment of Trustees; Powers and Duties

Section 12 - Unincorporated Religious Societies; Powers

Section 13 - Reports of Trustees

Section 14 - Removal of Trustees

Section 16 - Regulation of Solicitation of Funds for Charitable Purposes on Public Ways

Section 18 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 18 to 35

Section 19 - Registration of Charitable Organization; Filing of Statement; Contents

Section 19a - Designation as Veterans' Charitable Organization

Section 20 - Exemption From Registration

Section 22 - Contracts

Section 23 - Solicitation Disclosures

Section 24 - Registration by Professional Fund-Raising Counsel, Commercial Co-Venturer, or Professional Solicitor; Annual Financial Report

Section 25 - Records; Public Inspection

Section 26 - Fiscal Records

Section 27 - Reciprocal Agreements

Section 28 - Deceptive Practices Prohibited

Section 29 - Rules and Regulations

Section 30 - Investigation of Violations

Section 31 - Foreign Organizations or Persons; Service of Process

Section 32 - Violations; Revocation of Registration; Fines and Penalties; Injunctions

Section 33 - Fiduciary Capacity

Section 34 - Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations; Membership; Investments

Section 35 - Paid Solicitations and Solicitors; Violations; Fine