Mission, Fiduciary Duty, and Immigration Law: New Challenges for Nonprofits

This seminar, a companion to the March 27, 2025 program “ICE Enforcement for Non-Immigration Lawyers: What to Expect,” will focus on nonprofit organizations, including schools, churches, and health care organizations, and how their duties to fulfill their missions to society may be affected by recent immigration law developments. Many nonprofits serve populations that include recent immigrants and therefore face the basic issue of how to respond to recent changes in immigration law enforcement practices by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Presidential Executive Orders have changed long-standing enforcement practices and potentially affect how nonprofits can continue to provide charitable, educational, and religious services to populations that may be targeted by ICE while maintaining compliance with applicable law. This program re-examines charitable purposes of nonprofit institutions, fiduciary duties of boards and officers, and the shifting legal landscape, including Constitutional issues, the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and charity law. This program should be of interest to nonprofit boards, senior management, and counsel.

Speakers

Rose Cuison-Villazor, Professor of Law, Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers University

Tracey E. Miller, Esq., Counsel, Brach Eichler, LLC

William Wang, Assistant Attorney General, Charities Bureau, New York State Office of the Attorney General

Michael A. de Freitas, Esq., William C. Moran & Associates, P.C., Attorneys at Law