Legal Webinar: Is There a Union in Your Nonprofit’s Future?

Legal Webinar: Is There a Union in Your Nonprofit’s Future?

Wednesday, August 13 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Webinar

Presented by: Melissa Gerber Weiler and Patricia McCausland, Special Counsel at Duane Morris

Moderated by: Don Kramer, Esq. and Ashley Suhler Tobin, Standards for Excellence Director, PANO

Offered in Partnership with: Nonprofit Issues

*NOTE: PANO does NOT offer CPE & CLE credits. You must register via Nonprofit Issues for these credits.*

How would you react if there were?

Some employers might have a knee-jerk reaction of dread. Fight to the end! Even if it takes years and costs a fortune!

What if there were another way?

Employers have a lot of tools to oppose unionization. We read about them almost daily in the business world. Those same tools are available for nonprofits.

Yet there are also tools and strategies to support organizations that want to choose a different path — one that respects staff’s desire to be represented, and leans in to organizational values. We will talk about them in this webinar.

A nonprofit CEO, Melissa Gerber Weiler, and her lawyer, Patricia McCausland, who negotiated and implemented a union contract will talk about their experience and how to center the nonprofit’s values.

Together they will discuss :

• How to advance values-based changes while aligning with mission and improving staff retention.
• The advantages of working with your employees to achieve the organization's goals.
• Making rapid values-based decisions.
• Challenges of working with unions and counsel more accustomed to the for-profit environment.
• Explaining restricted funds, lack of budget flexibility and other constraints peculiar to nonprofit.
• Investing in negotiations to promote more positive relationships between management and the union.
• Keeping the board informed and providing management training and engagement throughout the process.
• Dealing with unforeseen circumstances in the first year and beyond.

Registrants can submit questions before the webinar or during the live program. If we can’t answer them during the program, we typically follow-up with an email after the program.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
 HR Directors, Nonprofit Executives

WHAT WILL I GET?
 Registrants will receive a copy of the PowerPoint and the Standards for Excellence Educational Resource Packer related to this topic.

If interested in receiving CPE and CLE credits for accountants and lawyers, please REGISTER HERE VIA NONPROFIT ISSUES (Subscriber Price: $75.65 | Regular Price: $89.00). You can reach them at info@nonprofitissues.com. Please note that PANO does not offer these credits.

SINGLE LOGIN COST:
 $45 per person for PANO Members | $100 per person for Not-Yet Members

Terms of Participation
 Your purchase entitles you to a single login. Please do not share the login information with others, as it may interfere with your ability to join. If multiple individuals from your organization would like to view the webinar, please purchase separate tickets for each person or consider a group screening ticket (below).

GROUP SCREENING COST (4-10 individuals):
 $150 per group for PANO Members | $333 per group for Not-Yet Members

Terms of Participation
 If you have 4-10 individuals interested in attending the webinar, please have one person register selecting one group ticket. You can then enter the names and email addresses of up to 9 other individuals to add to your group ticket. Each person registered will receive their own unique login instructions and may join from wherever is most convenient for them.

This option makes the most sense when you have 4-10 individuals interested in viewing the webinar. For fewer than 4 attendees, a single login ticket for each person is the most cost-effective option. For more than 10 attendees, please email Ashley Tobin at ashley@pano.org to discuss options.

MATERIALS AND LOGIN INSTRUCTIONS:
 Materials (PowerPoint and other handouts) and instructions on how to login will be emailed to attendees a few days prior to the date of the webinar.

PANO uses Zoom as our webinar platform; you can familiarize yourself with Zoom and/or join a test meeting prior to these sessions.

All PANO registrants will receive a recording of the webinar.

ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Donald W. Kramer, Esq., Nonprofit Issues & Montgomery McCracken

Donald W. Kramer serves as chair of Montgomery McCracken’s Nonprofit practice group. Don has more than 45 years of experience dealing with the concerns of nonprofit organizations, not only as a lawyer, but also as a teacher, writer, publisher, and board member.

He has worked with nonprofits of all types and sizes, helping structure startup situations and restructure multiorganizational health and educational systems. He counsels on a wide range of nonprofit corporate structure and governance, private and community foundations, continuing care retirement communities, exempt organization taxation, low-income housing tax credit transactions, real estate, charitable giving, and other nonprofit issues.

Don serves as the editor and publisher of Don Kramer’s Nonprofit Issues®, a national newsletter of “Nonprofit Law You Need to Know,” which he founded in 1989.

Prior to joining Montgomery McCracken in 1972, Don served as deputy development coordinator and assistant to the mayor of Philadelphia.

Melissa Gerber Weiler was President and CEO of AccessMatters.org, a reproductive health nonprofit in Philadelphia, and oversaw the process. She is now Founder and Principal of CollectivePromise LLC, a consultancy dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations move effectively through major organizational changes. Patricia McCausland, now a Special Counsel at Duane Morris in Philadelphia, was her lawyer.

Ashley Suhler Tobin, PANO Standards for Excellence Director

Ashley Suhler Tobin is a strategic nonprofit professional with over 16 years of experience in program development, program management and relationship management. As a Licensed Consultant for the Standards for Excellence in Pennsylvania and nationally, she brings deep expertise in nonprofit governance and management for PANO’s Standards for Excellence program.

Ashley’s career includes roles such as Program Development Director at Turning Points for Children and as a consultant for a variety of nonprofits in Pennsylvania. Ashley also ran a nonprofit networking program in Philadelphia called Connecting Coffee.

With a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from The George Washington University, Ashley is dedicated to fostering transparency, upholding ethical standards, and delivering high-impact results.