Non-Profits
Overview
Like for-profit businesses, educational, religious, and other non-profit organizations encounter complex structural, tax, and human resource issues. However, non-profits also face a set of issues that are unique to service of the public trust. Orr & Reno lawyers are sensitive to the mission of our non-profit clients, but are also cognizant of the need for these organizations to manage themselves efficiently.
Practice Focus
- Formation of non-profit corporations
- Application for tax exempt status
- Compliance with state filing regulations
- Management of assets, trusts and restricted funds
- Real estate tax exemption
- Employment issues and contracts
- Governance
- Conflict of interest policies
- Risk management
- Faculty tenure
- Student affairs
- Alumni affairs
- Athletic issues
- Immigration matters
- Merger / dissolution / affiliations
- Fund raising
- Strategic planning
Representative Matters
- Assisted religious organizations with forming non-profit corporations and developing bylaws and articles of agreement
- Counseled non-profit clients on mergers and affiliations
- Provided advice about volunteer use and retention
- Created various forms of tax exempt entities to qualify for tax exempt status under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)
- Litigated leading New Hampshire Supreme Court cases relating to real estate tax exemptions for religious, environmental, camp, and medical organizations
Industries Represented
- Assisted living and nursing homes
- Child advocacy and child care/development
- Counseling
- Churches
- Education
- Libraries
- Foundations
- Healthcare
- Hospitals
- Museums
- Religious organizations
- Support organizations
- Veteran’s support organizations
