An Urban Recipe delivery Urban Recipe and Wholesome Wave Georgia: Two PBPA Clients Bringing Healthy Food to Atlantans in Need Providing access to affordable, healthy food in disadvantaged communities is a defining mission of many nonprofits. Urban Recipe and Wholesome Wave Georgia are two of the local organizations working to meet this important need. Urban Recipe (formerly known as Georgia Avenue Community Ministry) began in 1991 when founder Chad Hale learned about food cooperatives and decided to …

Since January 1, 2016, 525 attorneys have volunteered for new matters with Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta! Click here for a list of individuals who have volunteered so far this year. To: Isabella Lee, Alston & Bird From: Advocates for Children “Isabella [Lee] provided tremendous assistance, and so have all of the other attorneys with whom we have been paired. We are very grateful to have this opportunity through PBPA. The legal assistance and guidance we are receiving are …

Between January 2016 and October 15, 2016, 525 attorneys have volunteered their time to support PBPA’s nonprofit clients. Thank you to those who have volunteered so far this year: A. Michael (Mike) Lee Abi Oyegun Abreen Delawalla Adam Balthrop Adam Israelov Adam Sonenshine Adrienne Byrdsong Aimee Nash Alan Arnold Alan Hastings Alan Poole Alan Pryor Alan Rosselot Alex Barnett Alex Clamon Alex Drummond Alex Yacoub Alexa Miller Alexander Wang Alexandra Greene Alexis Simpson Alfred Lurey Alison Drane …

This webinar provides an overview of how to identify and protect confidential business information that is significant to your nonprofit. The presenters will explain the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, clarify the legal differences between confidential information and trade secrets, discuss how nonprofits can use confidential information and trade secrets while continuing to protect them, and provide best practices to protect confidential information and trade secrets when partnering with another organization. The webinar will review: – The …

Nonprofits create many things, from curriculum to videos to websites to music. After expending their limited resources to create things (or to pay others to create them), nonprofits should certainly consider how to protect their rights in those things. Copyright protects works of authorship from unauthorized copying and distribution. An original work of authorship becomes protected by copyright as soon as it is recorded in some physical medium, such as on paper, canvas or computer hard drive. …

Nonprofits have a variety of workers who help the organization. How to classify those workers is not as simple as one would think, and failure properly to classify workers can lead to costly and time-consuming unemployment and workers’ compensation claims, U.S. and Georgia Department of Labor audits and IRS investigations. In some cases, nonprofit board members and staff can be held personally liable for unpaid payroll taxes when an employee is incorrectly treated as a contractor. Under …