Not-for-profit seminar series - Melbourne
In 2012 PilchConnect will again provide regular seminars on legal issues that affect not-for-profit community organisations. These seminars are provided with the generous pro bono support of PILCH member law firms and guest presenters - for more details see our partners and supporters.
PilchConnect's seminar series on common legal issues for not-for-profit organisations are:
- aimed at small to medium not-for-profit community organisations
- held at different venues in Melbourne's CBD area
- presented by our member law firms and/or PilchConnect lawyers, and
- are sometimes limited to 2 people per organisation per seminar (due to seat availability).
2012 seminar program (provisional)
| Date |
Title |
Details |
| February 17 |
Navigating the maze: Introduction to not-for-profit legal issues |
Details |
| March 21 |
Contract Law 101 |
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| April 18 |
Dealing with internal disputes |
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| May 16 |
Risk Management and Insurance |
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| June 20 |
Social Media and the law |
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| July 18 |
Making decisions: running meetings, AGMs, changing your constitution |
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| August 22 |
An introduction to tax for not-for-profits |
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| September 19 |
Occupational Health & Safety for Victorian community groups |
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| October 17 |
Intellectual property issues |
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| November 23 |
Employment law |
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The seminars are generally held on the 3rd Wednesday of the month from 9.30am-12.30pm. However, the first seminar for 2012 will be held on Friday 17 February and will run from 10am-4pm.
More sessions may be made available throughout the year. To stay informed of our upcoming training, sign up to PilchConnect's free monthly e-bulletin.
Past seminars
Past seminar topics include not-for-profit tax concessions, governance issues, running AGMs and meetings, legal issues in managing volunteers, employment law, occupational health and safety, intellectual property, and insurance. For our 2011 Melbourne seminar series click here.
If you would like to suggest a legal topic or area for our seminar series, please 
email connect@pilch.org.au or call us on 
03 8636 4400.
New fee structure for 2012 seminar series
In response to feedback we have set the following tiered fee structure for the NFP seminar series in 2012:
Half day seminars (3 hrs includes morning tea)
$50 small orgs (up to 10 EFT employees)
$100 larger orgs (more than 10 EFT employees)
Full day seminars (includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea)
$100 small orgs
$200 larger orgs
PilchConnect has always striven to make our seminars accessible to small-medium NFPs, and we appreciate that many organisations have limited resources and rely heavily on the work of volunteers. When revising our fees we considered that a tiered structure was fairer to both smaller and large organisations. Most of the organisations that attend PilchConnect seminars will fall into the ‘small' organisation category - for both small and larger organisations we consider that the new fees represent excellent value for professional legal information training.
As always we appreciate your feedback. If you are a completely volunteer-based organisation and feel you cannot afford to pay, please contact us to discuss potential alternative arrangements.