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This FREE ONLINE NANO-TRAINING is brought to you by the Artist Legal Cafe, a cross-sector partnership between SELC, Vital Arts, and Movement Law, an artist-led initiative that offers direct services and capacity-building to individual artists, artist collectives, and arts organizations. The ALC is generously supported by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, the Gerbode Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, Bay Area Cultural Funders for Equity, and the City of Oakland.

This event is part of "Power Tools for Artists: A Capacity Building Series," a year-long collaboration, providing capacity-building support to artists in the Solidarity Economy, among Art.coop, Obvious Agency, United Federation of Worker Cooperatives, and the Artist Legal Cafe (a project of the Sustainable Economies Law Center, Vital Arts, and Movement Law). Learn more about the series and about our collaboration at https://art.coop/power-tools-for-artists.

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Developing Internal Governance Roadmaps
with Alex Glancy

Whether you are a nonprofit, LLC, collective, or cooperative, this FREE online nano-training will talk through a set of questions that you should discuss with your team to lay the map of your organization's governance structure. Issues discussed will include: Decisionmaking, distribution of power, Boards, membership, and more. 

ABOUT ALEX GLANCY

Alex Glancy is a partner and founding attorney at Impact Matters Law, where she serves clients across a range of industries and desired impact. With keen attention to detail and interdisciplinary issues, Alex advises in the areas of corporate structuring and governance, capital-raising, contract law, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property.

Alex is experienced with the formation of business entities including LLCs, corporations, benefit corporations, nonprofits, and cooperatives. Alex counsels on capital-raising strategies and securities compliance at the federal and state levels. In addition, Alex represents buyers and sellers of small and medium sized businesses in employee ownership and perpetual purpose trust (PPT) conversions.

In addition to her corporate and securities work, Alex leads the intellectual property (IP) practice. She counsels on copyright and trademark matters for entrepreneurs and artists in creative industries, including negotiating, reviewing, and drafting IP-related contracts of key importance to clients’ IP portfolios. She has represented production companies, consultants, and fine artists in these areas.

Alex graduated from Harvard Law School, where she participated in the Community Enterprise Project. She holds a bachelor’s degree with honors from Northwestern University in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (MMSS) and Anthropology. Prior to joining Impact Matters, she worked at the Arts Law Centre of Australia, the Office of the General Counsel of New York University, and at a global law firm.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Alex prides herself on being a community lawyer of service to her city. She has presented to groups at UCLA, CalArts, Otis College of Art and Design, and the California Center for Cooperative Development.

FREE LEGAL CONSULTATIONS FOLLOW from 3:30-5:30
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