PROVIDENCE, RI, January 13, 2025 – Partridge Snow & Hahn (PSH), a full-service business law and litigation firm, announces that Elizabeth O. Manchester is the featured speaker for Charitable Gift Planners – RI’s (CGPRI) Annual Presentation, “Tax and Legal Changes Impacting the Nonprofit Sector,” on January 30. She will discuss relevant tax, legal, and compliance updates that directly impact the non-profit sector.
As Chair of the Partridge Snow & Hahn’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.
The Charitable Gift Planners of Rhode Island (CGPRI) is an association of advancement professionals and colleagues from allied fields, which is dedicated to furthering the gift planning profession through education and professional development. CGPRI is the Rhode Island Chapter of the National Association of Charitable Gift Planners.
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