Minimizing Non-Profit Risk:  

How to Protect Yourself, Your Tax-Exempt Organization and Your Board

Thursday, May 8th

8:30am - 10:30 am

Poyner & Spruill LLP

3600 Glenwood Avenue, Raleigh

This free seminar for executives and board members of non-profit organizations is jointly presented by Williams Overman Pierce & Co., L.L.P. and Poyner & Spruill LLP.  The seminar will include ample time for questions, answers, and discussion.  Continental breakfast will be served.

Gwen Vass, a CPA with with a practice concentrated in non-profits, will present "Changes in Independence Standards: What you need to know." Non-profits that receive certain types of governmental funding face new standards. Participants will learn:

• Why you should be thinking about these changes even if you don't receive funding from the government

• How might Sarbanes-Oxley affect non-profits

In addition, Pearl Doherty, attorney to numerous tax-exempt organizations, will discuss "The Ins and Outs of Intermediate Sanctions." Learn about the most important change in the federal income tax law relating to tax-exempt organizations in thirty years. Topics include:

• Does the new law apply to you?

• How to protect yourself from the sanctions

• What exposure do managers and directors now risk?

• Will the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley affect your organization's reporting in the future?

The seminar is free, but limited to the first 50 pre-registered attendees.