By NEO Law Group
Earlier this month, the IRS denied the exemption application of an organization whose articles stated that it would provide colleges and universities with the ability to engage in science and engineering studies and research in the submarine environment, including the ability to acquire by purchase, lease, gift, loan or by other means, vessels, vehicles and ancillary […]
On July 27, 2017, the Northern California Planned Giving Council (NCPGC) presented the program Updates from the California Attorney General on Charity Regulation and Enforcement featuring Supervising Deputy Attorney General Elizabeth Kim. Program Description: The Attorney General’s Office will provide updates on the work of the Registry and the Charitable Trusts Section’s legal and Audit units, including: On-Line Registration; Administrative […]
It was recently reported that the Internal Revenue Service is investigating whether a patient-assistance charity, Good Days, has been providing prohibited private benefits to its pharmaceutical company donors by using the donated monies to make purchases of drugs from these donors. According to Reuters: In court papers, the IRS said that in 2011, about 95 […]
Catch up with the week’s notable events and shared resources with Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: Senate Republicans finally made public their health care bill repealing the Affordable Care Act and calling for “deep cuts to Medicaid, the elimination of most taxes that funded the expansion of health care insurance […]
I’ll be on Nonprofit Radio this Friday at 10:30 am PT / 1:30 pm ET talking with host Tony Martignetti about shared leadership models. Catch us live on Talking Alternative or a few days later on iTunes. We’ll no doubt be talking about some pros and cons associated with several models of shared leadership, including Co-CEOs, distributed leadership among c-suite officers, and distributed […]
Catch up with the week’s notable events and shared resources with Nonprofit Tweets of the Week. Notable Events of the Week: A federal judge blocked President Trump’s executive order on immigration enforcement that would have allowed the federal government to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities. A lawyer for the Department of Justice alarmed the […]
Notable Events of the Week: FBI Director James Comey testified before the House Intelligence Committee, asserting that the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia and repudiating President Trump’s unsubstantiated and seemingly unhinged allegation that the Obama administration had wiretapped his New York offices. The Associated Press reported that President Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, “secretly worked for a […]
The past week was marked by President Trump‘s diversionary, unsubstantiated, and seemingly unhinged claim that President Obama wiretapped him followed by reports that James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, had asked the Justice Department to refute this claim; a revised but still highly controversial and very possibly unconstitutional travel ban; release of the House Republicans plan for repealing and replacing […]
On January 6, 2016, I joined over 1,000 lawyers and legal professionals attending the How to Be a Good Ally conference in San Francisco. While work called me away in the mid-afternoon, I left tremendously impressed and inspired by those who organized the conference in reaction to the election results, by those who spoke to us, […]
The new year seems to be more Rogue One than A New Hope with House Republicans temporarily reversing their unconscionable decision on January 2 to gut the independent Office of Congressional Ethics formed to investigate corruption and malfeasance by lawmakers and the Democrats working to ensure certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act remain with […]