About 300 lawyers and accountants seated in a large conference room, on left, facing and listening to panel of nonprofit tax law experts, on raised dais on right, at the Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations

Stand on principles and your mission, with courage, but also minimize your attack surface

Good discussion of fed admin attempts to intimidate foundations and nonprofits, including by threatening to remove #tax-exempt status at Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations #wcteo #nonprofitsky

300 or so lawyers and accountants seated in a conference room (on left side) listening to panelists (at right) at The California Endowment in Los Angeles, attending a conference on law governing nonprofits and foundations

Balancing standing on principles, with courage, but also minimizing your attack surface

Good discussion of fed admin attempts to intimidate foundations and nonprofits, including by threatening to remove #tax-exempt status at Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations #wcteo #nonprofit

WCTEO 2025 Highlights – Day One The following are just some of the many highlights from day one of the 2025 Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations (WCTEO). As with all of our posts capturing highlights of events…

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IMO, moment calls for private foundations to sharply increase funding for advocacy, and do it through core support, unrestricted funding. That’s most effective for nonprofits doing the advocacy, and also, for foundations, absolutely safest way.
#nonprofitlaw #charity @gtak.bsky.social #wcteo

Photos of meeting room with 3 panelists seated at front

Discussing advocacy rules and strategies for nonprofits at Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Orgs
#nonprofitlaw #charity #policy #liveunited #wcteo

Sounds like nonprofit parent role mostly will become using revenue developed by the new Delaware public benefit company “a structure⁠… that requires the company to balance shareholder interests, stakeholder interests, and a public benefit interest in its decisionmaking.”
#WCTEO #nonproftlaw

3/3 Notion that fiduciary duties of a nonprofit board (that has turned over recently) will protect the public from unsafe AI development, and/or will prevent undue prioritization of profit motives over nonprofit parent’s purpose, seems dubious
#nonprofitlaw #wcteo

2/N Seems like panelists talking around real issues
Making me thankful I read “Nexus” by Yuval Noah Harari, highly recommended.
We’re discussing nonprofit governance structure on development and use of essentially nuclear tech. Seems nonprofit law a flimsy reed here
#!AI #nonprofitlaw #wcteo

Why OpenAI’s structure must evolve to advance our mission A stronger non-profit supported by the for-profit’s success.

Some confused discussion of changes to #OpenAI ownership structure outlined in this blog post, at the #WCTEO conference on #nonprofitlaw
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2025 Western Conference on Tax Exempt Organizations The 28th Annual Western Conference on Tax-Exempt Organizations (WCTEO), my #1 go-to conference every year for the past 19 years, will be held in Los Angeles on Thursday, February 27, and Friday, Fe…

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