By NEO Law Group
Last week, I attended the 2022 National Center on Philanthropy and the Law Annual Conference. The theme this year was: Standards for Exemption: Old Rules, New World. The National Center on Philanthropy and the Law (NCPL) was established in 1988 at New York University School of Law (NYU School...
Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations is a treatise on the law of charities published by the American Law Institute. Restatements are highly respected secondary sources relied upon by lawyers, academics, judges, and others as persuasive, but not binding, authority. This Restatement, published in 2021, is the first one...
Erin and I teach a class we developed for Columbia University on the Business of Nonprofits. The class is part of the M.S. Nonprofit Management, and we think it provides a strong overview of the mix of common and/or important business and legal issues a nonprofit executive may encounter....
2021 was another difficult year for much of the world and for the nonprofit sector. But it brought us greater recognition of our existing critical challenges, including climate change, systemic racism, and preservation of our democracy. Here are some highlights and articles from the Nonprofit Law Blog over the...
2020 was a horrendous year for much of the world and for the nonprofit sector. But it came with reminders of longstanding problems and prices to pay for past actions and inactions, which will hopefully catalyze changes that need to be made in 2021 and beyond. For us at...
The National Association of State Charity Officials (NASCO) recently published the Survey of State Laws Governing Registration of Charities as of May 15, 2020. We hope this survey will assist charities and their advisors in navigating state registration requirements. This version of the survey includes information regarding relief certain states have...
2019 was an eventful year for the world and for the nonprofit sector. For us at NEO Law Group, Erin Bradrick and I became Co-Principals of our firm and developed a Business of Nonprofits course for Columbia University, and Michele Berger had the biggest news of all. Here are...
2018 was a tumultuous year for many, but along with some of the lows we at NEO Law Group experienced with the rest of the country, we also had some personal highs. Erin Bradrick received the 2018 Outstanding Young Lawyer award from the American Bar Association Nonprofit Organizations Committee, Michele...
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...
In June 2017, Guidestar released A Guide to Good Practices in Foundation Operations. The practices outlined cover the following areas: transparency; due diligence; responsive communications; and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Transparency Although not a guarantee of effectiveness, we believe transparency in general correlates with excellence in foundations. Which makes sense—the...