By NEO Law Group
California Assembly Bill 1338, introduced by Assembly Member Jacqui Irwin (D) on February 22, 2019, adds a requirement to meet the definition of a community foundation for the purpose of a Chapter of the Planning and Zoning Law regarding agency authorization of special entities, including community foundations, to hold...
California Assembly Bill 1539 (AB 1539), introduced by Assembly Member Jacqui Irwin (D) on February 22, 2019, provides for new laws governing crowdfunding without actually referencing crowdfunding as a defined term. It is the successor to Irwin’s earlier bill, AB 2556, which defined the terms charitable crowdfunding solicitation and...
The Office of the Attorney General, Department of Justice (“DOJ”) of the State of California is proposing to amend certain regulations and Forms that will affect charities subject to registration in California. The Notice of Amendments to Regulations and related documents can be found here. We wrote about proposed changes...
The Office of the Attorney General, Department of Justice (“DOJ”) of the State of California is proposing to amend certain regulations and Forms that will affect charities subject to registration in California. The Notice of Amendments to Regulations and related documents can be found here. Any interested person, or...
Originally published in part on LinkedIn My prediction for 2019 is very broad and perhaps obvious: an increase in conflicts. Certainly among political parties, political candidates, and political ideologies. But also within the nonprofit sector, which is composed of organizations that represent and/or support political actors and ideologies across...
2018 has featured many major events that have affected, and will continue to affect, the nonprofit sector. On January 1, 2018, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the most comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. tax code in over 30 years, went into effect, leaving nonprofits with many unanswered questions...
2018 has seen several developments regarding the required disclosures of donors by nonprofits. Disclosures of Donors – Charitable Organizations On September 11, 2018, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the right of the California Attorney General (AG) to require from reporting...
The Treasury Department announced a change in the regulations making it no longer necessary for 501(c)(4) and 501(c)(6) organizations to disclose the identities of their donors on their annual information returns to the IRS. More specifically, tax-exempt organizations described by section 501(c), other than section 501(c)(3) organizations, are no...
The American Bar Association Nonprofit Organizations Committee of the Business Law Section has announced the 2018 Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award recipients. NEO Law Group is very proud to share that Erin was awarded the Outstanding Young Lawyer Award for distinguished service by a young attorney in the nonprofit sector. Congratulations, Erin! From...
On this July 4th, we feature some excerpts from the United States Declaration of Independence. All Men are Created Equal The most well-known sentence from the Declaration isn’t as self-evident as many of us would like to believe: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are...