updated: January 2, 2008
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Charitable Board Service: What You Need to Know and How to Get Started


Friday | April 15, 2005
7:30 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. - Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m. - Welcome
8:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. - Program

Boston Bar Association
Conference Center
16 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108

Sponsor:

Boston Bar Association Public Interest Leadership Program

Serving on a charitable Board is an opportunity to gain experience, broaden your career horizons, and use your skills to serve your community in an area of your interest. The Public Interest Leaders of the Boston Bar Association are proud to present this engaging program that will explain everything from how to land a position on a Board to the skills you will need in order to be effective.

With a focus on critical issues for nonprofit trustees, experts on corporate governance and non-profit law, nonprofit accounting, and fundraising, will take you step-by-step through the components of Board service.

This program will be particularly valuable to lawyers who have not had significant experience serving on charitable Boards but would like to. Lawyers and non-lawyers who are already serving on Boards and want to be more knowledgeable and effective will also find this program informative.

Specific Topics Include:

(a) The role of trustees in non-profit organizations
(b) Key legal issues in corporate governance
(c) Background on tax-exempt organization rules
(d) Financial skills (a.k.a. “how to read financial statements if you’re not an expert”)
(e) Fundraising challenges
(f) Other strategic issues in which trustees are engaged

 Speakers:

Richard Allen, Esq.
Casner & Edwards, LLP

Leslie S. Blickenstaff, Esq.
Goodwin Procter LLP

Paul P. Brountas, Esq.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Jamie Katz, Esq.
Public Charities Division
MA Attorney General’s Office

Robin D. Kelley
CPA, Alexander Aronson Finning

Renée M. Landers, Esq.
Suffolk Law School

Frederic J. Marx, Esq.
Hemenway & Barnes

Ruben Orduna
The Boston Foundation

John V. Woodard, Esq.
Dane & Howe



Program Prices

FREE - BBA Member
FREE - Non-Member
FREE - BBA Member - New Lawyer (admitted after 6/2003)
FREE - BBA Member - Legal Services/Government Lawyer


 


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