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Navigating a Rapidly Changing Landscape
Friday, June 13th at 1pm ET
From executive orders to new requirements for federal funding, the current environment is changing rapidly. How is the philanthropic sector being impacted by this flurry of proposed legislation and what can philanthropists and their professional advisors do to navigate pending changes? Our legal experts have stayed close to the action and are ready to answer your questions. Simply fill out the form and select the topic(s) you want them to cover and register for our upcoming session to gain real-time insights and sector-specific guidance. They’ll provide clarity on a variety of topics that have the potential to impact private foundations and nonprofits.
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Presented By:
Jeffrey Haskell
Chief Legal Officer
Foundation Source
Jeffrey D. Haskell, J.D., L.L.M. is a leading expert in the areas of private foundation law, compliance and taxation. He is chief legal officer for Foundation Source, the nation’s largest provider of management solutions for private foundations. Mr. Haskell has worked with Foundation Source since its inception in 2001. He leads a team of attorneys and accountants who provide legal and tax support to the firm’s foundation clients and their closest advisors. Such support includes tax reporting services as well as guidance on philanthropic issues including program- and mission-related investments, grants to individuals, expenditure responsibility grants, equivalency determinations, scholarship and award programs, set-aside projects and return preparation. His team also advises on compliance with self-dealing, minimum required distributions, excess business holdings, jeopardizing investments, and taxable expenditure rules.
Articles by Mr. Haskell have appeared in multiple legal, financial and philanthropy-related publications. Additionally, he is a frequent speaker at conferences, and estate and tax planning councils across the U.S. Mr. Haskell is involved in pro bono work for public charities and has served as an adjunct lecturer at Baruch College of Accountancy, where he taught corporate tax law.
Prior to joining Foundation Source, Mr. Haskell was an associate at the law firms of Kronish Leib Weiner & Hellman LLP and Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky, in the Tax and Trust and Estates departments. Prior to joining Olshan Grundman, he worked at Coopers & Lybrand in the Business Tax Planning Group. Mr. Haskell is a graduate of Yeshiva University and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he was a member of the Cardozo Law Review. He earned a Masters of Law in Taxation from New York University School Of Law, where he was a member of the NYU Tax Law Review.
Brad Bedingfield
Partner, Chair
Hemenway & Barnes
Brad Bedingfield assists private foundations and public charities with navigating complex tax regulations and procedures, including receipt and disposition of complex charitable gifts and participation in innovative forms of impactful philanthropy. He also advises on governance matters, guiding charities and other nonprofits through formation, reorganizations, mergers, affiliations, and dissolutions.
Brad has 20 years of experience in private practice, and is member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), and frequent speaker on topics related to charitable giving and tax-exempt organizations. Brad previously worked as a tax law specialist with the Exempt Organizations Division of the IRS in Washington, D.C. Before his legal career, Brad obtained advanced degrees in English language and literature and taught medieval literature at universities in the United Kingdom, Japan and the United States.