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Currently, engaged by the Council on Foundations (Spring 2020 through present) to develop a guide and associated professional development training for foundations and nonprofits to engage with the federal government through assistance funding, grants, public-private partnerships and other collaborative relationships that advance shared public and charitable purposes.Accomplishments during my five-month consultancy at Farms Work Wonders (through Dec. 2019) included but were not limited to: • planning and executing the Board’s first full Board meeting (complete cycle: site management, agenda drafting, board book creation, coordinating staff deliverables and presentations, development and presentation of significant compliance procedures for Board approval (unanimous), meeting minutes); • developing detailed governance procedures for aligning new social enterprise opportunities to minimize risk;• creating ED, Board Chair, and COO position descriptions; • developing, managing, and producing essential operations, governance and compliance guidance with retained counsel and accountants; • developing strategy and managing operational assessment and response to state regulator inquiry; developed associated conforming internal and external communications; • reviewing and negotiating multiple architect, engineering and design contracts, inspections, and demolition contracts for new business enterprise of the nonprofit;• assisting with conduct and oversight of human resources functions, including employee benefits, tax, employee / independent contractor differentiation, exempt / non-exempt employees, parental leave, healthcare, insurance, privacy, Affordable Care Act compliance, standards of conduct and ethics, issues arising out of employment, education, and training of minors;• advising on intellectual property, copyright, licensing, trademark, brand development, social media, new website design and content development, DMCA compliance.

Provided comprehensive counsel, including grants and grants management, government contracts, procurement integrity, interagency agreements, fiscal and appropriations law, accounting, audit and budget, intellectual property, privacy / privacy act, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), ethics, financial disclosures, conflicts of interest, rulemaking, regulations, and legislation. • Initiated, executed, and coordinated agency adoption of Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) new Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (grants); served as agency representative to OMB working group, provided daily program and financial compliance counseling for agency's law enforcement, community, athletic competition anti-doping, criminal justice, and scientific and data research grants and cooperative agreements; advised and assisted in fulfilling reporting requirements. • Served as Alternate Designated Agency Ethics Officials (ADAEO), conducted annual ethics and standards of conduct training, provided post-employment counseling, provided counsel and reporting for OGE Forms 278 and 450 (confidential and public financial disclosures, periodic transactions reports, 278-T, Stock Act, termination reports), advised on conflicts of interest, teaching, speaking, writing, outside employment, ethics trainings, widely-attended gatherings, invitational travel, acceptance of travel from non-federal sources, domestic and foreign gifts, misuse of position, coordinated and completed reports to Office of Government Ethics. • With explanatory legal memorandum to senior management, wrote intellectual property agreement with non-governmental organization (NGO) to transfer government-owned copyright, trademark, and brand related to eighteen-year public health, strategic communications, media and public service advertising campaign, per discontinuation of appropriations and statutory authorities.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

As in-house counsel, provided comprehensive counsel on governance, contracts and transactions, sponsorships, intellectual property, knowledge management, licensing, internet / cyberlaw, employment law, Employee Retirement Income Security Act compliance, social media, research / data collection, privacy, lobbying & rulemaking, compliance, conference, meeting planning and professional development (curricula development, vendor & site agreements, insurance / liability), board/committees.• Directed multi-year multi-funder Building Strong and Ethical Foundations grant program.• Developed and executed comprehensive intellectual property program, including: conduct of rights ownership census; developed models and counseled and negotiated copyright, trademark, licensing, and permissions for print, digital and online uses of content, publications, webcasting, conferences/meetings, exhibits, webinars, speakers, international, trademark, brand, logos, publicity rights, music and performances, photographic works. • Wrote privacy and publicity rights and social media policies to comply with domestic employment and cyberlaw and European privacy data directives. For members (corporate, family, independent and community foundations), provided tax-exempt organization compliance and reporitng resources on the full range of issues , including: governance, ethics, conflicts, sanctions, donor advised funds, international, anti-terrorism compliance, disaster relief and emergency assistance, charitable solicitation & gifts, investments, state & federal formation, 990/990PF compliance, Pension Protection Act, economic development, public-private partnerships, sponsorships, corporate social responsibility. • Synthesized legal, financial and sector developments to produce detailed Recommended Best Practices in Foundation Investment Management, and Practice Tips and Resources documents offered to and adopted by the Board.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Provided comprehensive counsel, including grants and grants management, government contracts, fiscal and appropriations law, accounting, charitable gifts and endowments, copyright law and policy, tax, visa and immigration compliance, regulations, rulemaking and legislation, ethics, financial disclosures and conflicts of interest, international agreements, collections management. • Researched and wrote determinative legal opinion establishing the Library’s authority to accept grants from outside institutions and issue grants and awards to other organizations and to individuals. • Synthesized federal and nonfederal grant and fellowship/scholarship awards programs and issued internal procedures (Library of Congress regulations or ‘LCRs’) as well as model award agreements. Provided legal counsel and ensured institutional compliance with audit/internal controls, tax law, tax treaties and visa / immigration law for the Library's domestic & international scholars programs; recommended and designed a grants office to administer programs and awards; coordinated on administrative issues with State Department regarding the Library’s delegated Exchange Visitor Program (J-visa) authority.• Counseled on the acceptance of charitable gifts of real property, personal property, and intellectual property to the Library, as a cultural institution and U.S. public charity under tax law. • Provided copyright law and policy counseling, advising on the acquisition, preservation, display/exhibit, performance, copying, and distribution of tangible and digitized collections, in addition to the strategic digitization and preservation of collections in multiple formats. Participated in agency rulemaking.• Provided comprehensive ethics counseling including service on boards, outside employment, honoraria, political activity, endorsements, dual compensation, sponsorships, fundraising, gifts, travel; conducted significant ethics / conflict of interest / securities investigation.

Provided comprehensive federal administrative law, including grants and grants management, government contracts and procurement integrity, interagency agreements and transfers, fiscal and appropriations law, budget, accounting, and audit, privacy / privacy act, FOIA, FACA, research and evaluation (including Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) compliance) ethics, financial disclosures and conflicts of interest, Hatch Act, rulemaking, regulations, and legislation, copyright and trademark. • Served as agency’s grants law counsel, providing counsel on the administration and management of High Intensity Drug-Trafficking Area (HIDTA) grants, use of OMB Circulars A-87, A-102, and A-133 (audits) for State and Local Government grantees; interacted and coordinated with State and local law enforcement agencies and fiscal offices and federal agencies, including DOJ, Office of Justice Programs; developed and provided training on grants management to fiscal managers at annual financial conference. Drafted legislation and report language to establish the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) grant program to local nonprofits; assisted in the preparation of rulemaking and notice of fund availability for the DFC grant program. • Wrote the requirements and procurement contract for the development and execution of the five-year, $2 billion National Youth Anti Drug Media Campaign strategy, media plan, as well as the parallel evaluation requirements and contracts. Implemented the test phase and evaluation of the Campaign in twelve media markets, with twelve control cities, and coordinated the National Roll Out. • Served as ADAEO; served as ethics counsel to agency Federal Advisory Committee (FAC), addressed related Special Government Employee (SGE) issues and appointments, reviewed SF450s, Confidential Financial Disclosures, submitted reports to General Services Administration FAC Secretariat.

Assistant General Counsel, Government Contracts and Fiscal and LawResponsible for all planning, advertisement, competition, debriefings, award, administration and termination of contracts for the twelve agencies that constitute the EOP and White House Operations. Provided counsel to agency heads, EOP agency counsel, White House Counsel, and to the Assistant to the President for Management and Administration. Counseled on development of requirements / statements of work, reviewed evaluation factors, reviewed RFPs and IFBs before publication, provided procurement integrity counseling to evaluation panels, reviewed award documents prior to award, participated in vendor debriefings. • Successfully conducted complex data center services contract to ensure ongoing functionality of OMB legacy and current data management systems.• Held primary responsibility for locating and procuring service for immediate services for conversion of data storage tapes for EOP and White House to respond to Congressional subpoenas.• Developed prototype software Beta testing and loan agreement for EOP agencies.• Teamed with procurement to develop and implement procedures for Commercial Item Acquisitions.

Attorney Advisor, Acquisition (Federal Government Contracts) Law DivisionProvided comprehensive contracts and fiscal and appropriations law counseling, including conformance with Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations (DFAR) and Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), counseling on development of requirements / statements of work, reviewing evaluation factors, reviewing RFP and IFBs before publication, providing ethics / procurement integrity counseling to evaluation panels, reviewing award documents, participating in vendor debriefings when requested. Drafted / assisted in the drafting of legally compliant sole source justifications and findings and determinations. Supported contract disputes and bid protests at agency-level, boards, and Federal courts. Provided comprehensive counseling on all proposed expenditures and fund transfers to acquisitions staff and comptroller to ensure conformance with fiscal and appropriations laws, OMB and OFPP guidance.• Counseled on successful procurement of information technology systems contract designed to integrate multiple source content platforms and data formats of digital mapping, charting, imagery and geodesy product lines into a single hub.• Prepared memorandum establishing agency authority to enter into alternative agreements, including Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) and Cooperative Agreements.

J.D., Law, Trusts, Gift And Estate Tax, Tax, Environmental Law

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science, Journalism

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