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Reconsidering Redevelopment – Neighborhood Based Economic Development in Los Angeles
“Reconsidering Redevelopment” is a report co-authored by more than a dozen community-based groups that highlights the need to address economic development in Los Angeles’ poorest areas.
Guide, Spanish
Respondiendo a Sospecha de Abuso Infantil o Violencia Domestica en un Entorno de Cuidado Infantil
Guide
Responding to Suspected Child Abuse or Domestic Violence in Child Care Setting
As a child care provider, you may encounter situations where you suspect or know that a child in your care is being abused or neglected. When situations like this arise, you must follow appropriate procedures to ensure that the child gets help and that you are complying with legal requirements.
Guide
Revenue Generating Activities for Nonprofits
This publication discusses legal issues that may arise when a tax-exempt organization engages in revenue-generating activities, including income tax considerations, mitigating liability, structuring options, and taking on investors. This publication is intended to provide an overview of issues an organization should consider before launching a new revenue-generating activity.
Guide
Risk Management & Insurance Guide for Nonprofits [2013]
This guide provides a basic overview of the risk management process. Using a case study as an example, the guide explains the three fundamental steps that every organization should take in order to create a risk management plan: assess the nonprofit’s risks; mitigate those risks to the greatest extent practicable; and obtain insurance to help pay the costs in the event a loss occurs.
Guide
Running a Successful Child Care Business: Practice Good Community Relations
As a child care provider, you are not only a business person but you are a key member of the community in which you work and live. This means that you must have a good working relationship with parents, neighbors, landlords and licensing personnel. In fact, most problems involving the law can be avoided by simply maintaining good relationships with other members of the community.
Guide
Running a Successful Volunteer and Internship Program
This publication will discuss many of the common litigation risks and issues associated with volunteers and interns, including misclassification, compensation, discrimination and/or harassment, disciplinary actions, and injuries in the workplace.
Template/Sample Form
Sample Gift Acceptance Policy
Sample of a Gift Acceptance Policy for a California nonprofit public benefit corporation exempt from taxation under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(3) – it was designed to assist nonprofit organizations seeking to adopt or amend such a governance policy and the pro bono attorneys who represent them. The form is annotated with explanatory endnotes, including citations to applicable laws, alternatives, and recommended practices.
Template/Sample Form
Sample Minutes, Resolutions, and Consents
Template/Sample Form
Sample Notice to Commercial Landlord of Inability to Pay Rent (City of Los Angeles)
Template/Sample Form
Sample Notice to Commercial Landlord of Inability to Pay Rent (County of Los Angeles)
This document provides a sample letter a commercial tenant should send to their landlord in order to take advantage of protections for commercial tenants in unincorporated LA County or County cities that do not have their own COVID-19 commercial tenant protections. (June 24, 2020)
Template/Sample Form
Sample Parent Provider Contract with COVID provisions [August 2022]
The contract that follows is a sample, not a model; it may contain provisions that are not appropriate for certain providers, and it may not contain others that your program requires. You should modify it and/or adapt it for your own use after a review of your specific program and methods of operation. When you settle on the version that seems best for you, you should ask a lawyer to review your contract before using it with any parents.
Template/Sample Form
Sample Parent-Provider Contract
The contract that follows is a sample, not a model; it may contain provisions that are not appropriate for certain providers, and it may not contain others that your program requires. You should modify it and/or adapt it for your own use after a review of your specific program and methods of operation. When you settle on the version that seems best for you, you should ask a lawyer to review your contract before using it with any parents.
Template/Sample Form
Sample Parent-Provider Contract for Subsidized Care
The contract that follows is a sample, not a model; it may contain provisions that are not appropriate for certain providers, and it may not contain others that your program requires. You should modify it and/or adapt it for your own use after a review of your specific program and methods of operation. When you settle on the version that seems best for you, you should ask a lawyer to review your contract before using it with any parents.
