Help or Hype: With All These New Concepts Are We Just Being Duped?
Due to the litany of emails, posts, articles, tweets etc. I’ve seen on crowd-funding and new legal (formation) structures I couldn’t help wondering whether there was some dialogue I could be adding to...
View ArticleIf You Had One Piece of Advice For Nonprofits, What Would It Be?
That’s what I’m asking attorneys of all backgrounds to answer. Wait! Before you say anything, grab a camera (or click on the webcam) and record it. Wait! I know what you’re thinking. After all, I did...
View ArticleThe New(er) Legal Structures: A Quick L3C, Flex Purpose and B-Corp Overview...
Over the last year there’s been massive coverage over B corporation’s, L3C’s and Flexible Purpose Corporation’s in the blogosphere. I personally feel most of it has been more hype then help. So I...
View ArticleKeeping Nonprofits on Their Toes: The Mythical Lesson
I’ve been reading on social enterprise/ hybrid models recently and a common theme I’ve seen weaved throughout is this belief that new models are necessary, if for no other reason than, to “shake up”...
View ArticleNonprofits and Joint Ventures
Wow. Took a bit of a hiatus there. Wonder if I”m cool enough to say I was “summering”? Regardless, what better way to start things back up than talking about joint ventures! In all seriousness, this...
View ArticleUpdates For Exempt Organizations With Employees
Employment law can be so niche, and change so often, that I tend to shy away from talking about it. But the situations below run so counter to what folks generally believe to be true that I thought it...
View ArticleImportant Employer Update: IRS Expands Voluntary Worker Classification...
Whenever the topic of a hire comes up, especially a first hire, the conversation tends to go like this: Organization: By the way, we’re looking into hiring our first (insert position)…sooooo excited....
View ArticleGreat News and Upcoming “Not To Be Missed” Nonprofit Events
The last few weeks have been incredibly busy….hence the absence of recent “notations”. But I did want to take a sec to talk about some great coverage we’ve gotten recently and exciting things coming...
View ArticleHave You: Created A Charter For Your Nonprofit Committee?
In a recent post I talked about a few things organizations should do when they create or utilize board committees. One of the things I mentioned (that I’m a huge fan of) is the committee charter. It’s...
View Article3 Things You Should Consider Before Applying for Fiscal Sponsorship
While writing a piece on fiscal sponsorship, I came across the Nonprofit Quarterly post, “Fiscal Sponsorship: A Balanced Overview.” It’s a great introduction to two models and has good explanations of...
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