The legal doctrine of premises liability is an umbrella concept covering a broad range of potential liability borne by individuals and organizations that own, possess, and control real property. [...]
Effective governance of a nonprofit requires care and consistency. Especially as an organization’s team grows, having policies in place to guide staff in a broad range of matters is a good way to [...]
Website terms and conditions are easy to overlook, but they provide an important mechanism for protecting the website’s owner from certain kinds of legal risks. As a general rule, every [...]
Sunday school is a fixture of the life of many churches. Providing religious instruction to children in a nurturing context, while also giving parents a chance to practice their faith without [...]
Like any other organization, a nonprofit can acquire controlling interests in other legal entities. Although a separate organization can create a bit more administrative work, it can offer [...]
A nonprofit’s leaders can seem like superheroes at times, often handling many different roles for the organization while often also keeping up with a “day job” and keeping up with busy family [...]
For a variety of reasons, a church can end up handling confidential health information about its volunteers, employees, and even members of its congregation. A church with employees may need to [...]
Many people like to include charitable gifts in their wills and other estate plans. For beneficiary organizations these kinds of gifts are potentially significant sources of giving. An [...]
Operating a soup kitchen, providing boxed meals to people in need, and other food-related charitable work is a profoundly important source of life-sustaining nutrition for many families. Any [...]
All California employers are required by law to provide workers’ compensation insurance to their workers. This requirement typically extends to members of the church’s leadership team as well, [...]