What are your Intentions? Earn the trust of your donors and supporters through reporting transparency and accountability. In this day and age, it is essential for nonprofit professionals to have a basic understanding of accounting as it relates to contributions and pledges. The knowledge gained from this live webinar will help you to account for every dollar taken in, and to report accurately and completely on how each is used. By preserving...

Understand the latest updates to the Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit, including strategies to monetize the tax credits. The Federal Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit (HTC) has grown into a key financing tool for economic development, historic preservation and neighborhood revitalization. Combined in many areas with available state historic rehabilitation tax credits, HTCs have been used to rehabilitate historic city centers, theat...

Get practical advice to avoid common mistakes so that you can prepare useful and legally compliant NEPA documents. Since 1970, the National Environmental Policy Act has been the cornerstone for environmental protection in the United States. To implement NEPA, federal agencies must prepare environmental impact statements or environmental assessments to study the impacts of their proposed actions. Unfortunately, some federal agencies, their con...

This live webinar will help level the playing field by providing property owners with expertise in cell tower leases and buyouts. The wireless industry has built more than 300,000 cell sites in the United States in the past 20 years. But many more cell sites are needed as iPhones®, iPads®, Droids and the like strain existing network capacity. New cell sites and significant modifications to existing cell sites will also be needed to mee...

Learn about the SPCC Rules and the benefits of using the cost-effective STI inspection standard in your SPCC compliance program. When EPA began changing the SPCC Rules in 2002, they underscored a new emphasis on tank integrity testing. During the ensuing years, the Steel Tank Institute (with other key stakeholders), was charged with developing a standard specifically for integrity testing shop-fabricated ASTs. The STI standard has already prov...

You are generating revenue through multiple channels; identify and prevent the implications of the tax traps waiting for you. Fundraising for charitable organizations has become a complex business. Charities no longer hold out a tin cup and ask for donations. They engage in sophisticated activities to generate revenue for their mission and the activities have tax consequences. This live webinar will review the federal tax consequences of fund...

Find out which meetings - of which bodies - are open meetings under Nebraska law. This seminar will get you headed in the right direction to avoid costly mistakes and litigation. Find out what Nebraska law has to say about balancing the public's right to information with the individual's right to privacy. If you're involved with a public entity or if you represent the media, you need to know the ins and outs of federal and state public records...

The world of easements may not be as impossible as you think. Do not let the intimidating complexity of easements cause you anxiety. Whether you're looking to draft, comply or fight one, our local experts will give you the know-how to succeed - without getting caught in exhausting and expensive legal battles. Attend this seminar and get the practical easements information you won't find anywhere else. You will hear it all - the requirements o...

Don't have a working communication plan in place? Learn how to create an effective, applicable plan in 10 simple steps. This live webinar is an intensive training program to walk you through the steps of building an effective communication plan to support your organizational goals, no matter what they may be. The plan will be broken down into segments to define and set goals, identify target audience and key media channels (news and social me...

Dirty laundry and county board meetings - what do these have in common? Both could be subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Whether and when electronic communications such as emails, text messages, social media posts and tweets are subject to public records laws is a confusing and challenging question for public officials and journalists alike. This live webinar explains when such electronic communications must be disclosed and when they...