Anita S. Lichtblau provides comprehensive legal advice to tax exempt organizations and businesses and individuals involved in nonprofit matters. Anita advises on issues including:
Nonprofit Corporations and Governance Forming new nonprofit organizations and related entities of existing organizations
Obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status
Review and updating of bylaws
Complying with fundraising and charitable organization rules and reporting requirements, including IRS Form 990 and Massachusetts Form PC
Roles and responsibilities of effective nonprofit boards
Lobbying and political activity
Unrelated Business Income
Grants and Contracts Contracts and grants with, and monitoring and audits by, federal, state, and local government agencies and private foundations
Creating and reviewing subcontracts for government-funded organizations
Compliance with federal and state grant program rules, such as Head Start and the Community Services Block Grant Act (CSBG)
Compliance with general federal and state grant and contract rules, such as the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circulars on administrative grant requirements and cost principles and the Massachusetts human services procurement and contracting rules
Employment Employment matters, including internal investigations, discrimination, and wage and hour
Review of personnel policies
Anita served for fifteen years as both the General Counsel for Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), a large nonprofit human services organization and Community Action Agency (CAA) that provides Head Start and other services to low-income people, and Executive Director of Community Action Program Legal Services (CAPLAW), a nonprofit providing legal training and technical assistance to the approximately 1000 CAAs across the country. In those positions, she advised, provided training, and wrote numerous articles and publications on many issues including those described above. She presented hundreds of in-person workshops and webinars across the national Community Action network.
Prior to holding those positions, she was a senior trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice handling white collar criminal cases in federal courts in New England and practiced with the Boston firm Hill & Barlow and the Washington D.C. firm Steptoe & Johnson.
Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association Tax-Exempt Organizations Section and a Member of its Chapter 180 Working Group
Education
Anita graduated from Cornell University and Harvard Law School.
Practice Areas
Employment and Labor
Government Contracts
Practice Areas
Employment and Labor
Government Contracts
Industries
Not-for-profit Organizations and Foundations
Industries
Not-for-profit Organizations and Foundations
Specialty Groups
Bio
Anita S. Lichtblau provides comprehensive legal advice to tax exempt organizations and businesses and individuals involved in nonprofit matters. Anita advises on issues including:
Nonprofit Corporations and Governance Forming new nonprofit organizations and related entities of existing organizations
Obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status
Review and updating of bylaws
Complying with fundraising and charitable organization rules and reporting requirements, including IRS Form 990 and Massachusetts Form PC
Roles and responsibilities of effective nonprofit boards
Lobbying and political activity
Unrelated Business Income
Grants and Contracts Contracts and grants with, and monitoring and audits by, federal, state, and local government agencies and private foundations
Creating and reviewing subcontracts for government-funded organizations
Compliance with federal and state grant program rules, such as Head Start and the Community Services Block Grant Act (CSBG)
Compliance with general federal and state grant and contract rules, such as the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circulars on administrative grant requirements and cost principles and the Massachusetts human services procurement and contracting rules
Employment Employment matters, including internal investigations, discrimination, and wage and hour
Review of personnel policies
Anita served for fifteen years as both the General Counsel for Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD), a large nonprofit human services organization and Community Action Agency (CAA) that provides Head Start and other services to low-income people, and Executive Director of Community Action Program Legal Services (CAPLAW), a nonprofit providing legal training and technical assistance to the approximately 1000 CAAs across the country. In those positions, she advised, provided training, and wrote numerous articles and publications on many issues including those described above. She presented hundreds of in-person workshops and webinars across the national Community Action network.
Prior to holding those positions, she was a senior trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice handling white collar criminal cases in federal courts in New England and practiced with the Boston firm Hill & Barlow and the Washington D.C. firm Steptoe & Johnson.
Co-Chair of the Boston Bar Association Tax-Exempt Organizations Section and a Member of its Chapter 180 Working Group
Education
Anita graduated from Cornell University and Harvard Law School.
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