By NEO Law Group
Last month, the California Lawyers Association Nonprofit Organizations Committee hosted Audrey Rowe from the State of California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) to discuss updates to the FTB’s system and processes affecting tax-exempt organizations. This post captures some of the highlights. Beginning in 2024 the FTB began a major systems...
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week. Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: How to Fend Off Attacks on Nonprofits—Three Key Strategies (Aaron Dorfman, NPQ) As the Tax Bill Heads to the Senate, Here’s How...
Charities – If the status quo is harming your ability to advance your mission consistent with your values, what can you do? What should you do? The first question is a little easier to answer from a legal perspective. But I’ll try to provide a tiny amount of personal...
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week. Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: Nonprofits Under Threat: What’s in the House Tax Bill and How You Can Help (National Council of Nonprofits) One, Big, Beautiful Bill:...
In an earlier post, we discussed how Section 7217 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) prohibits the President, among others, from requesting the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to conduct an audit or directing the IRS to terminate the exemption of a tax-exempt organization. Shortly after President Trump first “confirmed...
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week. Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: Opinion: There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab (Editorial Board, NY Times) Can Trump strip Harvard of its...
The culture of fear triggered by the current administration’s attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), while understandable, is not healthy for the nonprofit sector. Staying informed and stepping up general compliance are generally appropriate responses. Making changes to communications may be part of a sound risk management strategy....
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week. Special recognition: May 1st was both International Workers’ Day and Law Day Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: Harvard Signals It Will Resist Trump’s Efforts to Revoke Tax-Exempt...
The following are just some of the many highlights from the 2025 Conference on Representing & Managing Tax-Exempt Organizations (the “Georgetown Conference”). Not surprisingly, the current hostile political climate towards the nonprofit sector was a pervasive theme. As with all of our posts capturing highlights of events, my interpretations, opinions,...
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Resources of the Week. Notable Nonprofit Posts, Articles, & Other Resources: Myth v. Reality: Executive Branch Lacks Authority to Target Nonprofit Organizations (National Council of Nonprofits) Law firms, universities and now civil society...