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Remote and Hybrid Employees: Navigating the Legal Challenges for Nonprofits

It’s been six years since a global pandemic transformed the employment landscape for nonprofit organizations by cementing remote and hybrid work arrangements as an industry norm. While remote work presents many benefits relative to reduced real estate footprints, more manageable overhead costs, recruitment and retention advantages, and the promise of a better work-life balance, it also grafts expansive compliance obligations onto employers, which must comply with dozens (even hundreds) of employment laws in the various jurisdictions in which their employees reside and work. This article addresses legal, compliance, and practical issues and challenges facing a multi-jurisdictional nonprofit workforce.

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Nonprofits Under Fire: How the IRS Can — and Cannot — Revoke Federal Tax-Exempt Status

While ... announcements have sent a wave of fear, apprehension, and alarm through wide swaths of the nonprofit sector, it is important to note that neither the President, the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, or the IRS have the ability to revoke the federal tax-exempt status of any entity through Executive Order or with the mere stroke of a pen ... There are well-established procedures for revoking federal tax exemption.

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DEI Initiatives in the Crosshairs of the Administration: What Nonprofits Need to Know to Mitigate Their Risk

Even in this time of uncertainty, there are several steps nonprofit executives can take to understand their legal risk related to DEI initiatives.  These steps all require a degree of self-awareness of an organization’s values and culture, but also a careful examination of organizational finances, legal risk, and public profile.

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Shifting Culture and Systems for Organizational Change

In examining where culture and systems intersect within your organization, it is important to start by ensuring a strong understanding of each and of their relationship to each other. Organizational culture is the collection of values, expectations and practices that guide and inform the actions of all team members. These defined attributes work in collaboration with each other and provide a barometer of what your organization looks like, feels like and sounds like. When created with intentionality, a positive organizational culture produces performance results that further your mission and can increase your bottom line....

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