Tennessee Code Title 4. State Government § 4-52-105

(a) The fund is authorized to partner with a nonprofit public benefit corporation that is organized solely to promote and encourage reading by the children of the state of Tennessee, for the purpose of implementing the early reading initiatives of the fund.

(b) The nonprofit partner shall have its board of directors elected by a process approved annually by the governor or the governor's designee. The nonprofit partner's board may select its own chairperson.

(c) The nonprofit partner shall be properly incorporated under the laws of the state of Tennessee, and approved by the internal revenue service as an organization that is exempt from federal income tax under § 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 501(a)), by virtue of being an organization described in § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3)).

(d) The nonprofit partner may receive funds from the general public, and also may receive funds from the state of Tennessee, at such times and in such amounts as appropriated by the general assembly.

(e) Costs to underwrite the nonprofit partner's activities related to the fund shall be borne from revenues of the nonprofit partner and no state employee shall benefit from such proceeds.

(f) The nonprofit partner may exercise all powers authorized under the Tennessee Nonprofit Corporation Act, compiled in title 48, chapters 51-68.  1

(g) The nonprofit partner may receive staff and other assistance from any agency of state government, subject to existing statutes, rules, and policies.

(h) All funds that are held by the fund on June 30, 2005, shall be transferred to the nonprofit partner for the purposes described in this chapter.