By NEO Law Group
I’ll be on Tony Martignetti’s Nonprofit Radio podcast speaking with Tony in Part II of our two-part discussion on nonprofit risk management. You can find our post on Part I, focusing on indemnification, here. While we focused mostly on legal risks, there are other risks that can be equally or even more important. Consider financial risks, health […]
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. This week’s Tweets of the Week was included on LexBlog’s Best of Law Blogging! Notable Events of the Week: “Facebook has never publicly disclosed what it knows about how its platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, […]
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: “Mr. Biden’s plan to try to fortify the United States against extreme weather — and cut the carbon dioxide emissions that are heating the Earth and fueling disasters — is […]
When a nonprofit organization receives funding, it’s important for it to know if it should classify those incoming funds as receipts from a contract, or receipts from a grant. How the funds are categorized can lead to very different outcomes for the nonprofit organization. For example, the characterization will affect the category of expense or […]
Indemnification in the context of nonprofit bylaws generally refers to how the nonprofit will protect its directors and other agents in the event they are sued for acting in their capacity as agents of the nonprofit. More specifically, indemnification is an assurance by the organization to make good an individual or group of individuals against […]
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: “Two explosions killed dozens of people, including at least 13 U.S. troops, ripping through the crowds outside Afghanistan’s main airport on Thursday, just hours after Western governments had warned of […]
Nonprofits must of course be aware of and compliant with applicable anti-discrimination laws. The first law we’ll review in this area is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Employment Discrimination Title VII protects employees and job applicants from employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual preference […]
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: “The federal ban on evictions expires Saturday [July 31], marking a new, worrisome phase in the race to keep people in their homes amid the slow trickle of emergency rental […]
Stay informed of the week’s notable events and shared resources with this curated list of Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: “Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Thursday sought to move lawmakers one step closer to debating and potentially passing roughly $4 trillion in new federal spending, announcing his […]
Following up on our post on the recently published Leading With Intent: BoardSource Index of Nonprofit Board Practices, we explore some of the findings highlighted in BoardSource’s companion report Leading with Intent: Reviewing the State of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on Nonprofit Boards. Key Findings Boards may be getting slightly more diverse, but they are far […]