By NEO Law Group
On February 14, 2018, I had the pleasure of participating in an international convening of about 50 members of the digital impact community at Stanford University, which was scheduled to immediately precede the Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Data on Purpose conference. Many thanks to Lucy Bernholz, Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and […]
While 2017 was a year many wish to forget, there were several special moments for us at NEO Law Group we wanted to share in our annual “Best of the Nonprofit Law Blog” post. We were one of the featured firms in the cover story for the February 2017 edition of the ABA Journal, our senior counsel […]
On January 23, 2018, NEO’s Erin Bradrick will be presenting So You Wanna Join a Nonprofit Board? at the Bar Association of San Francisco Conference Center from noon to 1:15 pm. The event (offered live and as a webinar) is sponsored by the Litigation Section of the Barristers Club. Victoria Weatherford of the San Francisco City […]
The Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations (WCTEO), my #1 go-to conference every year for the past 12 years, will be held at the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on Thursday, November 30, and Friday, December 1. NEO Law Group is proud to be a first-time Gold Sponsor of the WCTEO. With a schedule […]
On November 9, 2017, we got our first look at the Senate Tax Bill following the release of the House Tax Bill (see Nonprofits and Tax Reform: 2017 House GOP Plan). Both Bills are proposing major tax reforms, highlighted by $1.5 trillion in tax cuts mostly benefiting the ultra-wealthy. According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, the wealthiest […]
Yesterday, Erin, Michele, and I attended Investor2Invest: An Afternoon of Connecting to Impact organized by ImpactAssets, SV2 – Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund, and Toniic. While listening to the different panels, I considered my own thoughts about impact investing. Impact Investing Impact investing used to be seen as investing for a blended social and financial […]
Private foundations in the United States are often interested in funding promising organizations and projects that are based outside of the country. When doing so, these foundations are required to follow certain rules and procedures promulgated by the IRS to help ensure that the foreign grantees are properly using those funds for charitable purposes. Currently, […]
Earlier today I had the wonderful opportunity to guest lecture at Scott Curran‘s Lawyers as Social Innovators class at Chicago-Kent College of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Here are my notes for the class: If you want to do good, your best bet will be to work with, or for, a nonprofit. That’s a […]
Earlier today, I had the honor of testifying at the first hearing of the Select Committee on the Non-Profit Sector. Here is my draft written testimony (some of which I omitted from my verbal testimony in the interest of time): Good afternoon Madame Chair and Members of the Select Committee. It’s a historic day marking the […]
The past week was marked by the resignation of President Trump’s national security adviser Michael Flynn under the cloud of highly suspicious and likely unlawful communications, as a private citizen, with the Russians regarding U.S. sanctions on Russia; and the Grammy Awards, which also found itself under a cloud, in this case, of cultural bias. […]