Training

Legal Matters for Community Foundations - In-Person October 2024

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Led by the Council's legal team this in-person workshop is designed to answer your broad legal and practical questions on administering funds, grants, and community foundation activities. This training is a preconference event at the 2024 Annual National Conference for Growing Community Foundations.

Date & Time

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 - 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm CT 

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - 8:00 am – 12:00 pm CT

Location

Wichita Marriott
9100 Corporate Hills Dr
Wichita, KS 67207

Cost

Council Members = $380
Nonmembers = $510
 

Led by the Council on Foundations Legal Team, this workshop is flexibly organized to ensure that your broad legal questions for administering funds, grants, and community foundation activities are addressed. The legal team will provide technical and practical understanding of complex rules and regulations.

Throughout the workshop, sessions will be curated by

  • Insight from Council's top-notch legal team that interacts with nearly 2,000 foundation leaders each year
  • Trends spotted by our broader team, including National Standards for U.S. Community Foundations
  • Timely, relevant take on the basics that informs day-to-day business decisions and operations
  • Expertise to advance your knowledge of the organization's inner workings--from admin to governance, donor stewardship to grantmaking.

With each session, there will be time for questions and a deep exploration of the answers. This workshop is open to any board or staff member from any community foundation that is eager to dive into the legalities of our business model and unlock the truth to effective management and leadership of a community foundation.

Sample Agenda

Specific topics will be defined in advance of the workshop as attendees begin to submit ideas, pressing issues, and assist with the defining of sessions. This event is designed to be time sensitive and relevant to current issues. The format will be discussion-oriented, question and answer-based learning alongside peer sharing.

  • General Overview of new rules, regulations, and developments for CFs – Discuss latest new rules and regulations affecting community foundations.
    • Topics will vary based on current events and attendee requests, but often cover topics such H.R. 3988 (universal deductions), CARES Act, Updated Charity Act, Tax Deductibility, UPMIFA and related public policy trends.
  • Small Group Discussions & Deep Dives with Attorneys: Most common legal complexities facing community foundations – Assessing the most common inquiries from the field nationally, Council attorneys will delve into pressing subjects and issues such as DAFs and permissible grantees, current laws and basic rules regulating DAFs, Notice 2017-73 regarding DAFs, and expenditure responsibility.
  • Trends and Challenges from the Field – Council experts will share the trending narratives shaping conversations in board rooms as well as the most common challenges shared among community foundations.
  • Small Group & Deep Dive with Attorneys: Most common legal complexities facing community foundations – Assessing the most common inquiries from the field nationally, Council attorneys will delve into pressing subjects and issues such as scholarships, giving circles, corporate advised funds, variance power, and agency funds.

This training is a preconference event at the 2024 Annual National Conference for Growing Community Foundations.

If you are registered to attend or are planning to attend the conference, you can register for this preconference event through the conference website and pay a discounted rate of $199 when you pay for the entire conference.

Kansas Association of Community Foundations Annual Conference For Growing Community Foundations

Questions?

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Daniela Rodriguez Ranf

Director, Leadership Development and Training

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