Modern-day audio guide to charity legal issues

Farella Braun + Martel’s Private Client Group is pleased to announce that its podcast EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource published its 100th episode today.

Launched on July 25, 2022, the weekly podcast hosted by Exempt Organizations Partner Cynthia Rowland is a modern-day audio guide to perennial charity legal issues as well as new laws, regulations, and challenges, and the practical application of legal principles to the effective operation of a charity. It is for all professionals leading, funding, advising, or operating a public charity or private foundation that aspires to be a force for good in its space.

"We are thrilled to congratulate Cynthia on EO Radio Show's 100th episode," said Tony Vecino, partner and chair of Farella's Private Client Group. "One hundred episodes is an impressive milestone and testament to Cynthia's dedication to the nonprofit sector. She has created a deep body of work sharing her ideas and expertise to make positive advancements in the nonprofit world."

"I applaud Cynthia's innovative idea and commitment to create this substantial body of work," said Managing Partner Brian Donnelly. "Exempt Organizations have a broad range of legal needs, and it is gratifying to see episodes featuring lawyers across Farella in specialty areas such as real estate, employment, estate planning, business transactions, intellectual property, privacy, and bankruptcy."

"I've enjoyed hosting this weekly podcast, and I'm proud of the content and library of reference work I've created for clients and others working with startup and established nonprofit organizations to make a difference," said Cynthia. "I'm looking forward to many more engaging episodes featuring conversations with leading experts in different fields serving the nonprofit sector."

Episodes of EO Radio Show – Your Nonprofit Legal Resource are available on your favorite podcast platform or by visiting www.EORadioShowByFarella.com. Topical playlists are available on Farella's YouTube channel here.

Cynthia is a business and tax lawyer who enjoys working with philanthropists, including private individuals as well as for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Her broad experience includes entity formation, business transactions and grant agreements, regulatory compliance matters, partnerships and joint ventures, and mergers and dissolutions. She also advises trustees and directors of charitable organizations on fiduciary and tax issues. Cynthia has particular expertise in the legal and tax issues of corporate philanthropy. Her clients seek her advice when pursuing charitable co-ventures, fundraising, and forming corporate foundations and other types of social benefit corporations and entities.

Cynthia has provided annual updates to the California CEB Treatise Advising California Nonprofit Corporations for more than 25 years. She is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty areas of Nonprofit/Charities Law and Tax Law.

Farella Braun + Martel is a leading Northern California law firm representing corporate and private clients in sophisticated business transactions and complex commercial, civil, and criminal litigation. Clients seek our imaginative legal solutions and the dynamism and intellectual creativity of our lawyers. We are headquartered in San Francisco and maintain an office in the Napa Valley focused on the wine industry.

Contact: Cheryl Loof, Farella Braun + Martel LLP, 415.954.4433 / [email protected]