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SEA Member Webinar: Effective Social Enterprise – A menu of Legal Structures - Oct. 22, 2009

Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM EST - Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 2:30 PM EST
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About the Workshop:

This webinar will focus on the basic issues that a social enterprise in formation must consider in deciding whether to structure the enterprise as a for-profit, nonprofit, or hybrid legal entity. The webinar will analyze the legal issues that will drive an entrepreneur to consider one or more of the following legal forms: corporation, limited liability company, L3C, B-Corporation, non-profit exempt under IRC Section 501(c)(3) or nonprofit exempt under IRC Section 501(c)(4). It will also discuss when the use of more than one entity is appropriate or necessary and how two entities can work together legally. Key issues driving these decisions include the source of capital for the enterprise, the financial and other goals of the founders, and whether the law will accommodate a particular business plan within the tax-exempt framework. Attendees should come away with a set of the questions to consider in deciding what legal structure to use and sense of how the answers to those questions will help determine the most effective legal form.

About the Presenter:

Robert A. Wexler, Principal, Adler & Colvin, San Francisco, California.
Mr. Wexler has been practicing law for 24 years – focusing the last 16 years exclusively on representing nonprofit organizations and their donors, with an emphasis on social entrepreneurs and social enterprises. Mr. Wexler teaches nonprofit law at Stanford Law School; he is the Vice-Chair of Law Development for the Exempt Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association Tax Section and an Advisory Board member of NYU’s National Center for Law and Philanthropy. He is a contributing author to Advising California Nonprofit Corporations, published by Continuing Education of the Bar (2009). His two most recent articles are: “Effective Social Enterprise – a Menu of Legal Structures”, Exempt Organization Tax Review (June, 2009) and “Social Enterprise – a Legal Context”, Exempt Organizations Tax Review (December, 2006). Mr. Wexler is a Board member and officer of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of SEA, and he has presented at the SEA’s annual conferences in 2001, 2007, 2008, and 2009.

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Beginner

Registration Deadline:
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

We are pleased to offer this webinar to members of SEA as well as those who are exploring membership with SEA. If you are not yet a member, please click here to learn more about SEA Membership.

Please stay tuned for registration information for future SEA Member Webinars and SEA’s first virtual conference - the Social Enterprise Confluence 2009.

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