Two presenters were selected from Call for Papers.
The boundary between for-profit and nonprofit enterprise has long been blurry. Many nonprofits engage in commercial activity or earned revenue strategies in service of their charitable goals. Whether under the banner of corporate charity or corporate social responsibility, businesses have long been engaged in projects with a philanthropic or public purpose. This panel will address the interaction of another of these boundary-blurring phenomena –social enterprise– with nonprofit law.
Although these entities go by many names, this panel uses the term “social enterprise” to denote an entity organized to pursue both profits and social good. Social enterprises pursue these dual missions in tandem and, at times, by making considered choices to pursue social good over profits or vice versa.
Our speakers were selected through a call for papers and will explore several legal topics raised by social enterprises operating in what has traditionally been viewed as the nonprofit sector. These topics may include: forms of organization for social enterprises; the legal rules that bind the leaders and managers of social enterprises; jurisdictional competition for social enterprises; tax-exemption and social enterprise; financing social enterprises; and clinical opportunities to serve social enterprises.
Business Meeting at Program Conclusion.