Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit Organizations
The Nonprofit Organizations Industry Group works closely with leaders of nonprofit entities to serve as advocates and counselors in pursuing each organization’s public mission.
Our nonprofit clients include hospitals and other healthcare providers, educational institutions, energy cooperative corporations, trade and professional associations, advocacy groups, private foundations, charitable trusts, social welfare organizations and other types of nonprofit and charitable organizations.
Our team understands that nonprofit entities face unique legal issues throughout their corporate existence. We guide entities through the tax-exempt application process, as well as ongoing tax compliance issues. We counsel organizations on nonprofit corporate governance, employment and compensation issues, mergers and other business transactions, tax-exempt financing and the wide range of healthcare regulatory and other regulatory issues that, if unattended, can expose nonprofits to costly investigations and government-imposed penalties.
Our multi-disciplinary team includes attorneys from across the firm who have deep experience in different areas of law, including corporate & securities, employee benefits, healthcare, labor & employment, litigation & dispute resolution, public finance, tax, and trusts & estates. By drawing on the experience of attorneys across other disciplines, we are able to present an integrated and cost-effective solution for our clients’ business needs.
The Nonprofit Organizations Industry Group works closely with leaders of nonprofit entities to serve as advocates and counselors in pursuing each organization’s public mission.
Our nonprofit clients include hospitals and other healthcare providers, educational institutions, energy cooperative corporations, trade and professional associations, advocacy groups, private foundations, charitable trusts, social welfare organizations and other types of nonprofit and charitable organizations.
Our team understands that nonprofit entities face unique legal issues throughout their corporate existence. We guide entities through the tax-exempt application process, as well as ongoing tax compliance issues. We counsel organizations on nonprofit corporate governance, employment and compensation issues, mergers and other business transactions, tax-exempt financing and the wide range of healthcare regulatory and other regulatory issues that, if unattended, can expose nonprofits to costly investigations and government-imposed penalties.
Our multi-disciplinary team includes attorneys from across the firm who have deep experience in different areas of law, including corporate & securities, employee benefits, healthcare, labor & employment, litigation & dispute resolution, public finance, tax, and trusts & estates. By drawing on the experience of attorneys across other disciplines, we are able to present an integrated and cost-effective solution for our clients’ business needs.
Experience
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We served as bond counsel for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the...
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Over the past two years, Bass, Berry & Sims pro bono attorneys have worked with PURE Academy, a nonprofit, private...
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One of the firm’s strategic pro bono priorities is empowering community, and our work with Harvest Hands Community Development Corporation...
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We represented ModivCare, a provider of non-emergency medical transportation, personal home care and nutritional meal delivery, in its acquisition of...
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Our pro bono team worked with Renata Soto, Senior Fellow at the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative and co-founder and...
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A team of Bass, Berry & Sims attorneys from the Knoxville office served as bond counsel to Emerald Academy in...
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We served as bond counsel and borrower counsel to Covenant Health in connection with the issuance of over $600 million...
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We served as bond counsel in connection with a tax-exempt financing for the Change Center, a nonprofit organization that is...
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We served as lead counsel representing a not-for-profit in-patient addiction treatment facility located in Brattleboro, Vermont, in a qui tam...
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We have served as both bond counsel and underwriter's counsel in approximately $500 million of financings for nonprofit colleges and...
Experience
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We served as bond counsel for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the...
-
Over the past two years, Bass, Berry & Sims pro bono attorneys have worked with PURE Academy, a nonprofit, private...
-
One of the firm’s strategic pro bono priorities is empowering community, and our work with Harvest Hands Community Development Corporation...
-
We represented ModivCare, a provider of non-emergency medical transportation, personal home care and nutritional meal delivery, in its acquisition of...
-
Our pro bono team worked with Renata Soto, Senior Fellow at the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative and co-founder and...
-
A team of Bass, Berry & Sims attorneys from the Knoxville office served as bond counsel to Emerald Academy in...
-
We served as bond counsel and borrower counsel to Covenant Health in connection with the issuance of over $600 million...
-
We served as bond counsel in connection with a tax-exempt financing for the Change Center, a nonprofit organization that is...
-
We served as lead counsel representing a not-for-profit in-patient addiction treatment facility located in Brattleboro, Vermont, in a qui tam...
-
We have served as both bond counsel and underwriter's counsel in approximately $500 million of financings for nonprofit colleges and...
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Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
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Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
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Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
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Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
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Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
Notice
Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
Notice
Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
Notice
Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
Notice
Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
Notice
Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
Notice
Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
Notice
Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
Notice
Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
Notice
Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
Notice
Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
Notice
Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.
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Publications
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December 29, 2020 | Firm Publication
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August 5, 2020 | Firm Publication
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June 5, 2020 | Firm Publication
Past Events
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May 17, 2024 | WebinarNational Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)
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June 16, 2020 | WebinarArtspace Consulting
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May 7, 2014 | WebinarAmerican Bar Association
Media Mentions & Firm News
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March 21, 2024 | Firm News
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August 3, 2021 | Firm News
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February 28, 2020 | Nashville Business Journal
Publications
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December 29, 2020 | Firm Publication
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August 5, 2020 | Firm Publication
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June 5, 2020 | Firm Publication
Past Events
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May 17, 2024 | WebinarNational Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)
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June 16, 2020 | WebinarArtspace Consulting
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May 7, 2014 | WebinarAmerican Bar Association
Media Mentions & Firm News
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March 21, 2024 | Firm News
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August 3, 2021 | Firm News
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February 28, 2020 | Nashville Business Journal
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Notice
Visiting, or interacting with, this website does not constitute an attorney-client relationship. Although we are always interested in hearing from visitors to our website, we cannot accept representation on a new matter from either existing clients or new clients until we know that we do not have a conflict of interest that would prevent us from doing so. Therefore, please do not send us any information about any new matter that may involve a potential legal representation until we have confirmed that a conflict of interest does not exist and we have expressly agreed in writing to the representation. Until there is such an agreement, we will not be deemed to have given you any advice, any information you send may not be deemed privileged and confidential, and we may be able to represent adverse parties.