The Legal Side of Nonprofit Technology

Please join us for our Monthly Speaker Erin McClarty (http://erinemcclarty.com/), Head of Legal Affairs for CGG and nonprofit blogger.

Erin hosts a blog focused on nonprofits http://www.notationsonnonprofits.com/ and serves a a legal consultant to nonprofit organizations.

Learn to Be a (bigger) rockstar and add more value to your tech projects after we cover legal topics, hurdles and pitfalls in nonprofit technology.

The Legal Side of Nonprofit Technology
Whether you’re a consultant or on staff, it’s pretty cool when you can add value and context to technology conversations with an organization. And use fancy words like “spoilation.”

We’ll spend 30-45 minutes helping you do just that by walking through different aspects of nonprofit technology and touching on two or three legal topics, hurdles or pitfalls organizations should be aware of for each. The goal here isn’t to learn every regulation, but cover just enough for you to think critically and better foresee concerns with your projects. Better determine when an aspect may present a problem or require a deeper dive. So we’ll keep this at the 40,000 foot level and avoid the “Welcome to Cells” presentation style endured in school. That is, unless you enjoyed those presentations in which case this will be just as riveting!

The last 15 or so minutes we’ll interact by working through a few day to day questions you have and if there’s time, issue spotting on a hypothetical tech project.

Topics we’ll cover:
Things organizations might think about when:

• Developing fundraising platforms

• Creating blog platforms

• Creating websites

• Compiling and collecting data

• Implementing payment and donation processing

• Rolling out newsletters and communication systems

• Tendering and hiring technology service

Erin McClarty is principal of Erin McClarty PLLC, which provides legal counsel, board training and governance resources to emerging or start-up charities and social ventures. She’s also the founder of Notations on Nonprofits where she blogs about legal issues, analysis, resources and training for exempt organizations. Erin holds a Bachelor’s from the University of St. Thomas and a J.D. from South Texas College of Law. She’s served as in-house counsel for Fortune listed companies and sits on various advisory boards, grants panels and pro bono committees

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