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Answer Bar: How to Protect Your Nonprofit
Contains material from Jan 2017 to Feb 2019
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Session 2: Back to Basics: Revenue Generating Activities and Tax Compliance - An overview of revenue-generating activities, including how to distinguish between related and unrelated activities, taxable and nontaxable unrelated activities, and how to structure activities for the result that the organization wants. Also a (quick) look at whether and when unrelated business taxable income (UBTI) is a “bad thing” and what to do about it if it is becoming a problem.
Session 3: Governance Literacy - Governance at nonprofit organizations is often not a priority until something goes wrong. Gain practical tips to help board and staff members avoid problems, and review governance topics including fiduciary duties, governing documents, policies, procedures, and the roles of the board, officers, committees, and staff members.
Session 4: Violations of Chapter 42: How to Identify, Correct, and Report While Minimizing Audit Risks - Focus on the Chapter 42 excise tax regime applicable to private foundations and the strategic and compliance issues and considerations relating to identifying, managing, reporting, and correcting such transactions.
Session 5: Navigating Self-Dealing and Conflicts of Interest in an Increasingly Interconnected Environment - Gain tools and ideas to avoid self-dealing penalties for private foundations. The code provision has some flexibility and exceptions for compensation, co-investing, and family offices, but once an impermissible deal occurs, the cash or property involved must be returned and the penalty cannot be abated. Reasonable cause concepts don’t apply!
Session 6: The Sky is Not Falling: Tools for Managing Risk - A discussion on understanding, planning for, managing, and funding risk by focusing on practical tools public charities can use.
Session 7: Anatomy of an Attorney General Investigation - Explore the various aspects of an investigation of a charitable organization by the Texas Attorney General’s Office. Learn how and why an investigation may be initiated, what to anticipate as part of the investigative process, the potential consequences of an investigation, and best practices for dealing with an investigation.
Session 8: Funding Advocacy: A Roadmap for Private Foundations - Take that “no lobbying” language out of your private foundation grant agreements! Or at least some of them. Explore various ways in which 501(c)(3) private foundations may make grants that support lobbying and other types of advocacy.
Session 9: Top Privacy Issues for Nonprofits - Just a few years ago, companies considered information security and privacy issues to be a matter left solely for the IT department. But today, for-profit and nonprofit Boards and Executive Directors are realizing that the responsibility to protect consumer and donor data is shared across the enterprise. Learn about the trending privacy laws that all nonprofits should know about and best practices for how to comply.
Session 10: Investigations in Today's Woke Workplace - A veteran workplace investigator shares critical tips for ensuring that every complaint investigation is thorough, in good faith, and reliable in the midst of the #MeToo movement, instant social media postings, and polarizing employee relations issues.
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Jeffrey E. Sher
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Session 1
—61 mins
Back to Basics: Exemption Fundamentals (Feb 2019)
An overview of exemption under 501(c), and primarily 501(c)(3), examining what it means to be nonprofit and charitable, the organizational and operational tests, private benefit and private inurement, private foundations and public charities, unrelated business income, lobbying and political campaign activities, procedural matters, and more.
Originally presented: Jan 2019 Nonprofit Organizations Back to Basics Workshop
Jeffrey E. Sher,
Fizer Beck - Houston, TX
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Michaela J. Cromar
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Session 2
—60 mins
Back to Basics: Revenue Generating Activities and Tax Compliance (Feb 2019)
An overview of revenue-generating activities, including how to distinguish between related and unrelated activities, taxable and nontaxable unrelated activities, and how to structure activities for the result that the organization wants. Also a (quick) look at whether and when unrelated business taxable income (UBTI) is a “bad thing” and what to do about it if it is becoming a problem.
Originally presented: Jan 2019 Nonprofit Organizations Back to Basics Workshop
Michaela J. Cromar,
CliftonLarsonAllen LLP - Fort Worth, TX
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Meredith S. Camp
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Session 3
—61 mins
Governance Literacy (Feb 2018)
Governance at nonprofit organizations is often not a priority until something goes wrong. Gain practical tips to help board and staff members avoid problems, and review governance topics including fiduciary duties, governing documents, policies, procedures, and the roles of the board, officers, committees, and staff members.
Originally presented: Jan 2018 Nonprofit Organizations Literacy Workshop
Meredith S. Camp,
Wells Fargo Bank - Dallas, TX
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Tomer Inbar, Michelle Michalowski
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Session 4
—98 mins
Violations of Chapter 42: How to Identify, Correct, and Report While Minimizing Audit Risks (Feb 2019)
Focus on the Chapter 42 excise tax regime applicable to private foundations and the strategic and compliance issues and considerations relating to identifying, managing, reporting, and correcting such transactions.
Originally presented: Jan 2019 Nonprofit Organizations Institute
Tomer Inbar,
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP - New York, NY
Michelle Michalowski,
PwC - Washington, DC
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Jody Blazek, Nishka Chandrasoma
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Session 5
—42 mins
Navigating Self-Dealing and Conflicts of Interest in an Increasingly Interconnected Environment (Feb 2019)
Gain tools and ideas to avoid self-dealing penalties for private foundations. The code provision has some flexibility and exceptions for compensation, co-investing, and family offices, but once an impermissible deal occurs, the cash or property involved must be returned and the penalty cannot be abated. Reasonable cause concepts don’t apply!
Originally presented: Jan 2019 Nonprofit Organizations Institute
Jody Blazek,
Blazek & Vetterling - Houston, TX
Nishka Chandrasoma,
Ford Foundation - New York, NY
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Katherine Karl, Nicola Fuentes Toubia
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Session 6
—45 mins
The Sky is Not Falling: Tools for Managing Risk (Feb 2019)
A discussion on understanding, planning for, managing, and funding risk by focusing on practical tools public charities can use.
Originally presented: Jan 2019 Nonprofit Organizations Institute
Katherine Karl,
The Humane Society of the United States - Washington, DC
Nicola Fuentes Toubia,
Fuentes Toubia, PLLC - Houston, TX
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David M. Rosenberg, Susan K. Staricka, C. Andrew Weber
Session 7
—57 mins
Anatomy of an Attorney General Investigation (Jan 2017)
Explore the various aspects of an investigation of a charitable organization by the Texas Attorney General’s Office. Learn how and why an investigation may be initiated, what to anticipate as part of the investigative process, the potential consequences of an investigation, and best practices for dealing with an investigation.
Originally presented: Jan 2017 Nonprofit Organizations Compliance and Internal Review Workshop
David M. Rosenberg,
Thompson & Knight LLP - Dallas, TX
Susan K. Staricka,
Office of the Attorney General - Austin, TX
C. Andrew Weber,
Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP - Austin, TX
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John Pomeranz
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Session 8
—43 mins
Funding Advocacy: A Roadmap for Private Foundations (Feb 2018)
Take that “no lobbying” language out of your private foundation grant agreements! Or at least some of them. Explore various ways in which 501(c)(3) private foundations may make grants that support lobbying and other types of advocacy.
Originally presented: Jan 2018 Nonprofit Organizations Institute
John Pomeranz,
Harmon, Curran, Spielberg + Eisenberg, LLP - Washington, DC
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Elizabeth A. Rogers
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Session 9
—52 mins
Top Privacy Issues for Nonprofits (Feb 2019)
Just a few years ago, companies considered information security and privacy issues to be a matter left solely for the IT department. But today, for-profit and nonprofit Boards and Executive Directors are realizing that the responsibility to protect consumer and donor data is shared across the enterprise. Learn about the trending privacy laws that all nonprofits should know about and best practices for how to comply.
Originally presented: Jan 2019 Nonprofit Organizations Institute
Elizabeth A. Rogers,
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP - Austin, TX
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DeDe Church
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Session 10
—59 mins
Investigations in Today's Woke Workplace (Feb 2019)
A veteran workplace investigator shares critical tips for ensuring that every complaint investigation is thorough, in good faith, and reliable in the midst of the #MeToo movement, instant social media postings, and polarizing employee relations issues.
Originally presented: Jan 2019 Nonprofit Organizations Institute
DeDe Church,
DeDe Church & Associates, LLC - Austin, TX