Non-Profit Services
Carter Coleman has represented and served as counsel to tax-exempt organizations, including trade associations, professional organizations, civic groups, youth mentoring organizations, and other types of charitable entities. We can help your organization with:
- Formation and tax exemption for new non-profits
- Revisions of bylaws and changes in governance structure
- Self-dealing and other insider transactions
- Corporate mergers and dissolutions
- Corporate sponsorships
- Structural changes to non-profits and their related entities, including mergers, acquisitions and dissolutions
- Donor and donation issues and questions
- Director liability and fiduciary duty
- Legal and operations reviews and audits
- Consulting and advising on sponsorships, joint ventures and other special circumstances
- Contracts with vendors, independent contractors, and other third parties
- Corporate governance issues and best practices
- Conflict of interest issues
- Fundraising issues
- State and local charitable solicitation registration and compliance issues
- Unrelated business income issues
- Executive compensation