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What You Need to Know About Section 404 Permits

Are you prepared for additional requirements that can be triggered during the Section 404 Permit process?

The regulation of wetlands and waterbodies through Section 404 of the Clean Water Act has been well documented. However, what is often unaccounted for are the additional requirements that can...

Affordable Housing: Finance and Development, How to Maximize the Available Resources

Enhance your understanding of affordable housing financing tools and the benefits and challenges of each.

Building affordable housing is not particularly affordable. Costs of construction usually far exceed the revenues generated by rents. Without utilizing highly complex financing tools, often from...

Volunteers Gone Wild: Managing, Disciplining, and Terminating Volunteers

A difficult volunteer can cause more than a headache. Learn how to protect your nonprofit from the legal issues that can arise from the improper handling of a volunteer.

The non-profit sector is the third largest sector in the United States. NFPs have to follow all of the rules that govern employees...

Budgeting Basics for Nonprofits

Gain a better understanding of practical budgeting skills for nonprofit management.

Many nonprofits create budgets based on previous expenses or grant structures. Budgets are planning processes that create or determine policy for any organization. With some nonprofits who depend on their funding...

Planning for Water Distribution System Renewal

Understand the different types of water distribution failure, along with their health effects and the necessary responses.

When water mains fail, severe consequences for critical facilities and drinking water can lead to public disappointment in water utilities. The recent Flint, Michigan drinking...

Factors in Drafting Effective Easements

Understand the principles applicable to drafting and preparing effective easements.

Easements memorialize the relationship of the parties who will use the underlying property and the easement and serve as a guide for the scope and terms of the use of the easement. Easements contemplate use of the...

IRS Guidelines for Good Governance for 501(c)(3) Organizations

Gain a better understanding of the importance of good governance in the quest for improved tax-exempt compliance.

With increasing focus on transparency and accountability in nonprofit governance, many organizations are unsure of what is expected and how to achieve the ever increasing demands and...

FCC Order Exempting Cell Towers and Other Communications Towers From Certain Local Zoning and Safety Laws

Gain an understanding of the many legal and technical issues under the Order, including scope, constitutionality, effect on existing towers and new towers, and small cells.

This topic covers the FCC’s 2014 Wireless Siting Order implementing 47 U.S.C. 1455(a) that preempts state and local approval...

Sell, Hold or Resyndicate: What to do at the End of the Housing Tax Credit Project

Understand the tax credit options both when initially structuring a project and when evaluating what to do in year 15.

Owners of tax credit projects are faced with numerous options at the end of the tax credit compliance period. They can sell the project subject to the use restrictions, attempt to...

Innovations in Municipal Regulation of Group Homes, Sober Homes, and Recovery Communities

Gain and understanding of the zoning provisions for community residences that comply with the Fair Housing Act and statewide zoning laws.

Headlines across the nation trumpet the scam artists raking in big bucks with phony sober living homes. Cities, especially in warm climates, are being inundated...