Our second session features an in-depth review of frameworks and boundaries of how to be bold AND legally compliant while building a multi-entity base or membership programs. Tackling many of the most common and complex legal questions about multiple-entity membership models—things like running joint campaigns, the legal definition of membership, sharing lists across legal entities—Bolder Advocacy practitioners share their expertise in how to do bold work safely when working with 501(c)3s and 501(c)4s.

Trainer: Ronnie Pawelko, Bolder Advocacy, a program of Alliance for Justice

Additional Resources:

• Slide Deck: Membership Programs: Navigate the Law

• Topic Resource: The Connection - Strategies for Creating and Operating 501(c)(3)s,501(c)(4)s, and Political Organizations

• Topic Resource: Bolder Advocacy Resource Library

• Topic Resource: Bolder Advocacy Podcast: Rules of the Game

*The Base Power Learning Community is jointly sponsored by New Left Accelerator and The Capacity Shop and brings together progressive intermediaries and leaders to learn, document innovation, and create resources for multi-entity organizations building membership across their legal entities. Learning Community partners include Progressive Multiplier, The Center for Empowered Politics, The Capacity Shop, Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy program, The Movement Tech Help Desk, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Information Ecology, New Left Accelerator, and various progressive power-building organizations and independent consultants.