Legal Webinar: Nonprofit Law: Year in Review

Nonprofit Law: Year in Review

Wednesday, December 10 | 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Webinar

Presented by: Don Kramer, Esq., Partner, Montgomery McCracken, and Editor, Nonprofit Issues

Moderated by: Melissa Sines, Interim Director of Standards for Excellence, PANO

Offered in Partnership with: Nonprofit Issues

*CPE & CLE credits are available for this program for accountants and lawyers; to receive credit you must register through Nonprofit Issues.

This has been a tumultuous year for nonprofits.  They are facing unprecedented upheaval in the legal environment affecting their operations at both the federal and state level. This program discusses the critical legal and public policy developments impacting nonprofits today. Attendees will gain practical insights on how these changes affect nonprofit operations and learn strategies to help nonprofit organizations maintain compliance while advancing their missions. This webinar will help prepare you to meet your nonprofit’s most pressing needs.

Join Nonprofit Issues® editor Don Kramer for his Annual Review of “What’s New in Nonprofit Law” and things to expect coming up.  It is always one of our most popular webinars of the year.

Here are some of the topics he will be discussing:

• Federal grant cutbacks and efforts to restore funding.
• The Big Bill Beautiful for Some.   It does provide a significant above-the-line charitable contribution deduction for public charities and avoids some of the most adverse proposals for the charitable sector.  It includes a lot of other provisions affecting charitable giving and creating more work for charities.
• Diversity, equity and inclusion.  The Trump Administration’s efforts to eliminate DEI, charities’ efforts to fight back, and court decisions protecting DEI as a First Amendment right.
• Charitable remedial discrimination.
• Multiple challenges to higher education.  The industry is a microcosm of most of the issues facing nonprofits.
• Promised investigations of foundations.
• Status of the new Pennsylvania annual report filing process.
• Expansion of the test for Pennsylvania charitable tax exemption.
• Issues of fiduciary duty, including a “gag” bylaw at Penn State.
• Whether a non-religious nonprofit may seek protection under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
• And much more!

Here’s what some past participants have said in their evaluations of this webinar:

• I thought last year’s review better than two full days of [a university's] EO program
• This program has a ton of information and is very helpful
• Awesome

Every respondent in the last two years said that they learned something they could use in their work and would recommend the webinar to others.

Nonprofit Issues® editor Don Kramer will lead the discussion.  Kramer, who has more than 45 years of experience in dealing with the legal issues of nonprofits of all types and sizes, is listed among The Best Lawyers in America in the category of nonprofit/charities law.  Melissa Sines, Interim Standards for Excellence Director of the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations, will facilitate the program.

Nonprofit Issues® is an Accredited Provider for Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education. CLE credit is available for PA lawyers participating in this webinar.  If you are a lawyer in a state that accepts CLE credits from other jurisdictions we can provide certificates of attendance and proof of our PA approval. CPE credits are also available for Pennsylvania accountants. participating in the live webcast.

*CPE & CLE credits are available for this program for accountants and lawyers; to receive credit you must register through Nonprofit Issues.

Please note: When you register for this NPI provided webinar, your email will be added to their mailing list. If you would like to opt out, please indicate that in your registration.

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 viewing the webinar, please have one person register selecting the group ticket. You can then enter the names and email addresses of up to 10 individuals to add to your group ticket.

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 Christina at christina@pano.org to discuss options.

Materials & Login/Call-In Instructions:
Materials (PowerPoint and other handouts), along with login information, will be emailed to attendees within 24 hours 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.

Can’t attend? All registrants will receive a recording of the webinar following the live session!

About the Facilitators

Donald W. Kramer, Partner, 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 has provided legal services to The Philadelphia Foundation for more than 40 years.

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.