Starting a Nonprofit – Corporate Development, IRS Tax-Exemption Applications, and Other Important Steps for Nonprofit Flourishing

Topics covered include: Family Bereavement Leave Act; Employee Sick Leave Act; Illinois Human Rights Act (Crown Act); One Day Rest in Seven Act; and more.

Attorneys who accept the honor and responsibility of nonprofit board participation likely will face a wide variety of expectations about one’s skills, expertise, and ability to contribute meaningfully. This session will help attendees to successfully meet these expectations through addressing directors’ fiduciary duties, understanding related ethical dimensions, and then applying such principles to responsibilities including attorney competence, diligent representation, confidentiality, organizational and other communications, and pro bono service.

How can nonprofits best guard their Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status? What activities may they engage in, and what are potential operational problems? This session addresses key legal compliance aspects along with related do’s and don’ts such as prohibited and restricted politically related activities, private benefit and inurement, potential penalties and revocation issues, applicability and calculation of the requisite “public support” test, additional “unrelated business income taxation” issues, and optimal IRS Form 990 information return reporting in connection with these tax-related areas.