By NEO Law Group
2020. A devastating year for so many. But it will also be remembered as an inevitable one that forced us to confront some long-standing problems. Here is our list of 10 significant news events of 2020 affecting the nonprofit sector in the United States: COVID-19 (more than 325,000 deaths...
Lucy Bernholz, Director of the Digital Civil Society Lab at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, is the expert you need to listen to on matters of digital technology, the nonprofit sector and broader civil society, and democracy. I was fortunate enough to attend two of her...
Nonprofits must be a key part of any national relief and recovery effort from the immense impacts of COVID-19. The following is the text of a letter to our Congressional leaders from the leaders of 38 national nonprofit organizations dated September 24, 2020: Dear Speaker Pelosi, Leader McConnell, Leader...
The twin crises of pandemic and recession are straining the region’s philanthropies and could force as many as a third of nonprofits to close or merge before the economy recovers, according to top executives in the sector. The Washington Post (8/3/20) In these historically challenging times, there are predictions...
January 24, 2021 Update: If there are any attorneys or law students who identify as Black Americans who are interested in nonprofit corporate and tax-exemption laws and who’d like to pursue this area of practice, I’m committing an hour each week to being a resource. Please ping me...
Thanks to Jen Bokoff for permitting us to republish this post originally published on the Jeneralist blog. 13 lists of ways to learn and show up as antiracist* in this world *Let’s start with the term “antiracist,” since I know this term alone causes many to go on the...
Earlier this month, the California Office of the Attorney General (“AG”) published Charity Governance During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Here are some excerpted highlights from the publication applicable to California nonprofit corporations with some comments: Emergency Provisions Unless prohibited by the nonprofit’s emergency bylaws, the following actions can be taken...
The planned sale of the DotOrg (.ORG) domain registry from a charitable nonprofit to a private equity firm was rejected on April 30, 2020 by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). This marks a huge victory for the nonprofit sector and millions of nonprofits and nongovernmental...
On April 24, 2020, the IRS and Treasury Department published proposed regulations under the law commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) that provide guidance on how a tax-exempt organization subject to unrelated business income tax (UBIT) determines if it has more than one unrelated...
I was interviewed on a special edition of Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio released today, April 4, discussing specific provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act and the CARES Act that apply to nonprofits. You can listen here. Below are some highlights of the two Acts and links to helpful...