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Council-Endorsed D&O Insurance Program

Legal Compliance Guidance
Directors & Officers liability insurance provides financial protection for a foundation and its directors, officers, employees, and volunteers in the event of a lawsuit. Does your foundation need D&O insurance? A foundation doesn't have to be in the wrong to be sued. D&O insurance…

Guide to Directors and Officers Liability Insurance

Fundamentals
For boards of directors, trustees, and foundation managers, there are few areas of operation that cause more confusion and uncertainty than indemnification and the purchase of directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance. And it is no wonder. Mixing the often impenetrable statutory language…

Creating an Inactive Funds Policy

Legal Compliance Guidance
Imagine the following scenarios: A donor advisor has not made a recommendation from a donor advised fund for two years. An agency has requested that your community foundation not make a distribution from an agency endowment until the agency requests a distribution at some point in the future.…

Developing a Travel Policy

Fundamentals
Under the rules applicable to private foundations, directors or trustees and staff members may be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in connection with the foundation's charitable activities. Such expenditures fall under the heading of administrative costs and will generally…

Component Funds: The Absence of Material Restrictions

Legal Compliance Guidance
This document outlines the basics of component funds, field of interest funds, donor-advised funds, and restrictions around these funds.

Covering Travel Expenses of Family Members

Legal Compliance Guidance
The Stewardship Principles for Family Foundations encourage foundations to provide orientation and training for new board members and professional development for existing board members and staff. They also encourage planning for leadership continuity through activities that identify, educate and…

Tangible Benefits Resulting from Grants

Legal Compliance Guidance
In the May/June 1998 issue of Foundation News & Commentary, Jane Nober wrote "That's the Ticket"  about using foundation funds to pay for tickets to fundraising events. Six years later, questions about tickets and other tangible benefits paid for by the foundation are still among the most…

Accepting Tickets from Grantees

Legal Compliance Guidance
Accepting and using tickets and other tangible benefits of more than minimal value raises questions for foundation managers. Review the general Tax Code rules to learn what is acceptable.

Executive Compensation Best Practices

Legal Compliance Guidance
The Internal Revenue Code provides excise tax penalties that can be imposed by the Internal Revenue Service whenever unreasonable or excessive compensation is paid to high-level employees of charitable organizations. Over and above any legal requirements or public scrutiny, good stewards of…

Explanation of Proposed Treasury Regulations: Reliance Standards for Making Good Faith Determinations of Equivalency Determinations

Legal Compliance Guidance
September 24, 2012 The Department of Treasury and the IRS issued proposed regulations applicable to private foundations seeking to make grants to foreign organizations using equivalency determinations. The guidance broadens the range of professionals on whose written advice a private foundation…

1969 Private Foundation Law: Historical Perspective on Its Origins and Underpinnings

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The Tax Reform Act of 1969 contains major provisions that affect the way private foundations do business. In this paper, Thomas A. Troyer, an attorney who collaborated with the Council as Congress developed the law, recalls what motivated Congress to place severe restrictions on private foundations…

Built On Principle: A Guide to Family Foundation Stewardship

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Built on Principle will help family foundations achieve excellence using the Stewardship Principles for Family Foundations as a blueprint for excellence. You’ll learn about effective practices in board governance, grantmaking, succession planning, communication, ethics, accountability, and other…

Impact Investing Glossary of Terms

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From Mission Investors Exchange, 2012

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