Issues Notes

Kramer to talk on pressures
facing charity directors

Editor Don Kramer will discuss the new scrutiny and pressures facing directors of charitable organizations and the likelihood of increasing regulation at a breakfast meeting of professional advisers for the Lehigh Valley Community Foundation in Bethlehem, PA on Tuesday May 3.

The program at the Bethlehem Hotel will cover issues raised by the Senate Finance Committee as well as developments in Pennsylvania law affecting charities and other nonprofits. For further information, contact lvcf@lehighvalleyfoundation.org.

Kramer to participate
in PBI Nonprofit Institute

Editor Don Kramer will participate in three separate breakout sessions at the annual Nonprofit Institute of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute in Philadelphia May 18.

The first presentation will be a review of the year in the law for nonprofits, including developments in Congress and significant cases in Pennsylvania.

In the second presentation, he will team with Behind the Numbers columnist Eric Fraint and Goldenberg/Rosenthal accountant David Gruber to provide an update on the effects of Sarbanes-Oxley on the work of nonprofits.

In the third session, Kramer, Tax Editor Virginia Sikes of Montgomery, McCracken, and Tish Mogan of the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations will discuss a series of ethical issues for lawyers and directors of nonprofit boards.

For more information and registration, go to www.pbi.org.

Thursday with the Editor, April 28

Join us for another Thursday with the Editor telephone call on April 28 at 1 p.m. ET. You can use this time to follow-up on your own or someone else’s To The Point question, discuss any topic covered in this edition, or raise any other issue of nonprofit law.

You won’t get legal advice, but you will get Don Kramer’s reactions based on more than 35 years of working with nonprofit organizations. Sign-up here.

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