Nonprofit Organizations Committee: Conference Call on August 19

The Nonprofit Organizations Committee is pleased to announce our upcoming presentation:

Fiscal Sponsorship – Some Tricky Issues
August 19, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.

Please join the Nonprofit Organizations Committee for a program on the topic fiscal sponsorship, presented by Erin Bradrick.  Done properly, fiscal sponsorship can be an effective and powerful tool for furthering charitable impact and incubating mission-driven projects. However, fiscal sponsorship isn’t as simple as it first seems and often raises complex relational and legal issues. As attorneys to fiscal sponsor organizations and fiscally sponsored projects, it’s important to have a clear understanding of the basics of fiscal sponsorship relationships, as well as the more nuanced legal considerations that can arise. In this session, we’ll do a brief overview of the basics and then turn to some of the trickier issues that can come up in the fiscal sponsorship context. We’ll talk through issues such as the lobbying rules, fiscal sponsorship in the arts space, when a project might fall within the DAF rules, key provisions in fiscal sponsorship agreements, and exiting projects, among others.

Erin Bradrick is a Principal at NEO Law Group, where she provides corporate, governance, and tax counsel solely to nonprofits. Erin writes extensively and frequently speaks to various audiences on legal issues impacting the nonprofit sector. She also regularly conducts trainings for nonprofit staffs and Boards of Directors on a range of governance and legal issues. Erin is a graduate of UCLA and Yale Law School and, prior to joining NEO Law Group, was a litigator with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.  In 2017, Erin was awarded the American Bar Association’s “On the Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyers” by the Young Lawyers Division and, in 2018, she was recognized as the “Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer – Young Attorney” by the ABA’s Nonprofit Organizations Committee.

*This program has been approved for 1 hour of MCLE credit by the California Community Foundation.  The California Lawyers Association is not the provider of this MCLE credit. 

Following the presentation, the Nonprofit Organizations Committee will continue our regular meeting with announcements, updates, and discussion topics of interest to nonprofit organization attorneys.

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 921 0270 3274
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We will have BOTH audio and video on Zoom for this meeting.   If you prefer to get audio by phone, call 1 669-900 6833, and enter the meeting ID above.  For phone instructions for Zoom, see here.  Written materials are being sent separately.

For more information about the Nonprofit Organizations Committee and its programs, please contact Committee Chair Corinne Gartner (cgartner@delfinomadden.com) or Vice-Chair, Programs Louis E. Michelson (louis@lemtax.com).

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Become an official member of the Nonprofit Organizations Committee!  The CLA Business Law Section is accepting applications online here  Applicants must be Business Law Section members who have been admitted to the California Bar for at least five years. 

Upcoming meeting dates: 

• Sep 23, 2021, 10am, Update on Property Tax Exemption for Nonprofit Organizations, presented by Mr. Sy Nguyen, Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor