IS offers free webinars to staff at our member organizations, designed to help build organizational effectiveness. Each session was recorded and is now available for viewing.
The IRS Form 990 is no longer simply a financial reporting tool. Instead, the 990 is an important vehicle for communicating our organizations' accountability to multiple stakeholders. This webinar presentation from Angela Williams, senior vice president and general counsel for the YMCA of the USA, and Joan Lovell, associate general counsel, will help you to consider how you might maximize the new Form 990’s focus on governance and mission accomplishment to communicate your organization’s accountability.
This presentation includes:
- The Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice as context for preparing for the Form 990.
- The IRS’s increased focus on nonprofit governance.
- A step-by-step review of the Form 990, paying particular attention to those sections most relevant to governance and mission.
- Answers to your questions about how your organization can tell the story of your organization’s accountability to your best advantage.
Angela and Joan also provided written answers to questions participants during after the webinar.
Presenters
Angela Williams is senior vice president and general counsel for the YMCA of the U.S.A, and is also an ordained minister. Prior to joining Y-USA, Ms. Williams was the interfaith liaison for the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund and was vice president and deputy general counsel, as well as chief compliance and ethics officer, for Sears Holdings Corporation. Before Sears, she served as special counsel on criminal law to Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) on the Judiciary Committee staff, and she was a prosecutor with the Department of Justice, the United States Attorney’s Office, and the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps.
Joan Lovell is associate general counsel for the YMCA of the USA. She joined the Legal Department in April 2001 after moving from Detroit to Chicago. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Wayne State Law School and was in private practice as a trial attorney in Michigan for more than 25 years. Joan is the Chair of the YMCA Project 990 Committee, and is the legal department liaison to the Committee on Membership Standards. She works closely with the consulting staff to provide YMCAs with resources that can help them meet their not-for-profit requirements and fulfill their charitable mission.
