A pastor’s terms of employment are often spelled out in an employment agreement. For many churches the pastor’s employment agreement creates significant financial and legal obligations. Given [...]
Owning real estate comes with a host of potentially significant complications for a church that isn’t prepared to take them seriously. Some types of complication—disputes with neighbors, for [...]
Volunteers are often essential to all aspects of a nonprofit’s operations. They do everything from basic administrative tasks to high level analysis. Because volunteers can be involved in almost [...]
In a twist of linguistic irony, the application of the term “mission creep” has gradually expanded from its origins in discussions of war to be used in a broad range of organizational settings. [...]
Throughout American history churches have played an interesting and sometimes controversial role in political debates. Under the Johnson Amendment, a modification to the Internal Revenue Code [...]
As the continuing controversy surrounding the Catholic Church has shown, sex abuse is not simply a legal risk for churches. In addition to raising profound moral and ethical questions, it also [...]
Nonprofits are sometimes offered stock or other securities instead of cash donations. In some cases donors designate a certain number of shares to be given to the nonprofit upon the donor’s [...]
Because they are conveniently located within communities, churches are often selected to serve as polling places during elections. There are plenty of interesting questions that can be asked [...]
On September 18 the Supreme Court denied an application for stay in the case of Crossroads v. CREW, allowing to stand a long and complex decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of [...]
In July the Treasury Department and IRS announced a significant change to the reporting requirements for nonprofits that meet the requirements to be treated as a social welfare organization under [...]