On January 14, 2020, NEO’s Erin Bradrick and Victoria Weatherford of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP will be speaking on Serving on a Nonprofit Board: Issue Spotting & 2020 Ethics Update at the Bar Association of San Francisco from noon to 1:15 pm. The event (also offered as a live webcast) is sponsored...
The following are some of the highlights from Day One of the WCTEO 2019. Washington Update Sunita Lough (IRS, Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement and former commissioner of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities division) discussed the IRS’s shift to enforcement with better data analytics (to select the...
We have work to do. Let’s – Do it together. Share more knowledge. Coordinate more activities. Inspire one another. Energize one another. Heal. Make each other more comfortable. Make each other more uncomfortable. Push. Be brave. Get the job done. These were the messages from Upswell Chicago. Here is...
Equity in the Center’s Pre-Convening to Upswell Chicago was held on November 12, 2019 and provided a day-long, deep dive into how to build a Race Equity Culture. EiC described the convening as follows: Plenary sessions and workshops will focus on how to operationalize race equity, highlighting best practices...
The Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations (WCTEO), my #1 go-to conference every year for the past 14 years, will be held at Convene in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, December 5, and Friday, December 6. The agenda and speaker list look great. I hope to see many of our readers there....
Earlier this week, I had the privilege of guest lecturing to Scott Curran‘s Lawyers as Social Innovators class at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The following is an excerpt of my notes for the class: Nonprofit Scandals Heard any juicy stories this summer? MIT Media Lab...
The Sustainable Economies Law Center‘s Social Enterprise Law Seminar will be held at UC Berkeley School of Law on October 11. You can register and view the agenda here. Learn how to tackle legal issues facing nonprofits, worker cooperatives, and other social enterprises, and meet other practitioners in this...
I’m in Oxford, England for the 2019 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, taking place from April 9 through April 12. This year’s theme, Accelerating Possibility, is focused on exploring how humanity can accelerate a future that is fair, inclusive, and sustainable. You can find links to my recaps of Day...
I’m in Oxford, England for the 2019 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, taking place from April 9 through April 12. This year’s theme, Accelerating Possibility, is focused on exploring how humanity can accelerate a future that is fair, inclusive, and sustainable. You can find links to my recaps of Day...
I’m in Oxford, England for the 2019 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, taking place from April 9 through April 12. This year’s theme, Accelerating Possibility, is focused on exploring how humanity can accelerate a future that is fair, inclusive, and sustainable. You can find links to my recaps of Day...