At our nonprofit conference last week, themed “The nonprofit leaders’ journey from ordinary to extraordinary: Tell me something I don’t know,” Pegine Grayson, vice president of Philanthropic Services at Whittier Trust, was one of our panelists. After the conference I asked Pegine if I could capture some of her insightful reflections. Donella: When asked to describe a [...]

In January 1996, Bill Gates coined the term “Content is King.” His essay on this topic started by saying, “Content is where I expect much of the real money will be made on the Internet” and went on to say, “One of the exciting things about the Internet is that anyone with a PC and a modem can publish whatever content they can create.” Let’s flash forward almost two de [...]

By: Richard Ruvelson I am taking this opportunity to pass on information gleaned from the Nonprofit Law Prof blog dated July 13, 2015. It is reassuring to know that, even during contentious times at the beginning of a presidential-election campaign, bipartisanship still exists. This particular blog addressed the July report of the Senate Finance Committee’s Business [...]

By Ronald J. Nessim (guest blogger from Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim,Drooks, Lincenberg & Rhow) Historically, disputes between talent and the major studios were litigated in a public courtroom where the judge and jury had no inherent biases for or against talent or the studio. Increasingly, however, the major studios have increasingly required talent – as [...]

By Margaret Karren On April 22 the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an exposure draft which would significantly change the existing not-for-profit financial reporting model. Comments are due by August 20, 2015. I decided to try making a comment to see how the process worked. I went on to the FASB.org website; it took a couple of tries to get to the [...]

On Friday, July 31, the Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 (ACT) was signed into law. The Act, which was mainly intended as a temporary extension of the Highway Trust Fund, includes many important tax provisions. This Tax Alert provides some of the main highlights of the tax aspects of the Act. This [...]

And By: Andrew Bird (Marketing and Communications Consultant) (Excerpt from their book, Putting the Profit in Nonprofit! 5 Power Success Strategies for Nonprofits) Donors can’t give you money if they don’t understand who you are and who you help. They also can’t give you money if YOU can’t effectively explain who you are and who you help! Why does your organization e [...]

By: Helen Han (guest blogger from R&D Incentives Group) Another guest blogger, Kevin Zolriasatain from KBKG, recently wrote aboutR&D credits for the food and beverage industryfor this blog. Expanding on the topic, this post dives deeper into the R&D credits specifically for the wine industry. People familiar with the workings of wineries and vineyards kn [...]

Over the past 10 years it has been well publicized that state tax incentives have been increasingly beneficial and lucrative for entertainment companies, often in the form of state film credits. We recently wrote about California’s credit changes in their attempt to remain competitive in attracting and retaining media-production activity. But what has sometimes been o [...]