Legal Issues for Nonprofits Working with Volunteers and Interns

Date: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: Lawyers Alliance for New York, 171 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor

HOW YOU WOULD BENEFIT:
Nonprofits with missions as diverse as educating young people and assisting the elderly to live with dignity rely on volunteers to staff their programs and deliver services within their limited budgets.

Legal Issues for Nonprofits Working with Volunteers and Interns explores the legal issues affecting the use of volunteers, with particular attention to liability issues faced by nonprofits that use volunteers with elderly and young clients.

Other topics covered are:

The use of background checks
Use of volunteer agreements and codes of conduct
Insurance issues
The distinction between a volunteer and an employee
The payment of stipends to volunteers
The application of state and federal employment laws to volunteers.
WHO WOULD BENEFIT:
Managers, human resources professionals, and volunteer coordinators of nonprofit organizations that use volunteers in any aspect of their work.

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