Ron Christian is a partner at Taft and concentrates his practice on charitable foundations, charitable gift planning and advising nonprofit organizations including tax matters, governance, joint ventures, mergers, affiliations, foundations, endowment funds, charitable giving, fundraising and working with donors. Ron is licensed to practice law in Ohio and Kentucky and has passed the Kentucky Certified Public Accountants examination. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America (since 2006), and has been selected for inclusion in Ohio Super Lawyers (since 2010) and as a Leading Lawyer by Cincinnati Magazine (since 2008). Ron is a member of the Kentucky and Cincinnati Bar Associations and is a former President of the Greater Cincinnati Planned Giving Council. He was a Greater Cincinnati Planned Giving Council Voices of Giving honoree in 2009 and also was inducted as an honoree into the Working in Neighborhoods Hall of Fame in 2015.He is a frequent speaker on tax topics concerning tax-exempt and nonprofit organizations and charitable giving, and serves as a volunteer on a number of nonprofit organizations including currently the Boards of the Society of St. Vincent DePaul, St. Vincent DePaul Charitable Pharmacy, Cincinnati Zoo Foundation and Bayley, as an Advisory Board member of the Marvin Lewis Community Fund as well as on committees of Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati Zoo, Be Concerned, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Ronald McDonald House, He also serves as legal counsel for the Greater Cincinnati Foundation.Specialties: charitable foundations, charitable gift planning and advising nonprofit organizations including tax matters, governance, joint ventures, mergers, affiliations, foundations, endowment funds, charitable giving, fundraising and working with donors, estate planning and probate matters with considerable experience in charitable gift planning including charitable trusts and family foundations
Listed skills include Nonprofits, Estate Planning, Charities, Fundraising, and 18 others.