PROVIDENCE, RI, January 27, 2025 – Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP (PSH) Partners Elizabeth O. Manchester and Russell J. Stein will present a webinar on fiscal sponsorship to Legal Food Hub members on February 5. As part of the Legal Food Hub’s free winter webinar series, Manchester and Stein will provide information to help farmers, food entrepreneurs, and food and farm organizations decide whether to enter into a fiscal sponsor relationship, which can help a start-up charity to administratively and financially grow with the ability to receive tax-deductible donations. Registration is available here.
As Chair of PSH’s Nonprofit & Tax-Exempt Practice Group, Manchester represents tax-exempt entities, centered on compliance, formation, charitable gift planning issues, and best practices. She has extensive experience assisting institutions with the inception of planned giving programs, as well as corporate governance matters and maintenance of tax-exempt status. Manchester advises charitable institutions and institutions of higher learning about tax benefits available to donors, to assist in discussions with donors to appropriately advance the organization’s mission. Serving as external general counsel for public charities and private foundations, Manchester advises nonprofits regarding board education and training, fiduciary obligation advice, compliance, donor representation, endowment fund management, finance, Form 990, reporting issues, governance, joint ventures, affiliations and litigation prevention. In addition, she advises nonprofits regarding managing bequests and complex gifts for organizations, mergers and acquisitions, obtaining and maintaining tax exemptions, policies, political and lobbying restrictions and tax.
Stein advises businesses on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters, and the intricacies of the U.S. Federal and State tax regulations. He has extensive experience counseling nonprofit organizations, charities, and private foundations on a variety of issues ranging from start-up organizational matters through mergers and dissolutions. He provides guidance on joint ventures and partnerships between nonprofit and for-profit entities, including advice regarding state regulations and registration requirements involving commercial co-venture agreements.
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About The Legal Food Hub
The Legal Food Hub envisions a New England where local food and farm businesses thrive in spite of social, economic, climate, and environmental challenges. By equipping these businesses with the legal assistance that they need, the Legal Food Hub supports New England’s transition toward a regional food system that is sustainable for both people and the environment.
About Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP
Partridge Snow & Hahn is a full-service business law and litigation firm committed to working collaboratively with clients to develop a deep understanding of their various industries, objectives, and unique ways of working to help advance business goals and solve legal challenges. With offices in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, the firm focuses on key areas of law: corporate & business, including M&A, employment, tax, and nonprofit; real estate, including commercial financing, energy, environmental, and land use; and complex commercial litigation & disputes.
