Nonprofit organizations and Private Foundations
The Law Offices of Paul S. Nash represents a wide variety of nonprofit organizations throughout the country, including charities, churches, and other religious ministries, associations, and universities. Our nonprofit clients range in scope from small start-up organizations and local churches to nationally-known charities and multi-national NGO’s.
We serve a diversity of organizations with missions that impact people in local communities and the world, including:
- International NGO’s providing food, water, shelter, and medical care to needy persons around the world
- Organizations promoting youth development and educational progress
- Shelters for homeless individuals
Through our nonprofit legal expertise, we help to improve the best practices and expand the capacities of such organizations so they can better fulfill their missions.
We advise our nonprofit clients on numerous issues including:
- Incorporation
- Tax-exemption applications
- Legal audits
- Charitable solicitation registration
- State and local tax matters
- Charitable gifts and fundraising
- Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT)
- Board governance
- Employment
- Dispute resolution
- First Amendment and Constitutional issues
- Local and international affiliation
- For-profit subsidiaries
- Investment and endowment policies
- Lobbying and political activity
- Private benefit and intermediate sanctions
- Reasonable Compensation
Our nonprofit law attorneys are leaders in the areas of preventative law, legal audits, and diagnostic tools for nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations. Our “Legal Audit Questionnaire” and other preventative legal services have helped numerous CEO’s and board management teams diagnose and reduce legal risks in all areas of their operation and organization.
