Date/Time
Date(s) - May 26, 2026
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Fee: Free
Register at: https://give.unitedwaynwvt.org/e/safeguarding-your-mission-nonprofit-compliance
Operating a nonprofit – whether as a board member or key staff – comes with significant legal and fiduciary responsibilities. While every organization is unique, all nonprofits must comply with state and federal requirements to maintain tax-exempt status and safeguard charitable assets.
Join the Nonprofit Legal Hub, Vermont Professionals of Color Network, and Common Good Vermont for a special one-hour session led by Anthony Iarrapino, Principal at Wilschek Iarrapino Law Office, PLLC, and Jill Martin Diaz, Executive Director of Vermont Assistance Asylum Project, covering essential legal requirements and best practices for charitable organizations in Vermont.
Designed for both new and experienced nonprofit leaders, this session will help you build or refresh your understanding of the nonprofit legal landscape and support effective, compliant governance.
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Meet the Speakers
About Anthony Iarrapino
Anthony Iarrapino is Principal at Wilschek Iarrapino Law Office, PLLC, located in Montpelier, VT. a substantial part of my practice to serving the legal needs of nonprofit corporations throughout Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. As a former nonprofit staff member, executive director, past and current nonprofit board member and officer, and a graduate-level instructor in non-profit law and ethics, I bring a range of perspectives and experiences to counseling nonprofit clients in a wide variety of matters. I have served clients at all stages of the nonprofit life cycle, including start up, tax exemption, merger, and dissolution. Along the way, I counsel clients on internal governance, compliance with IRS regulations, campaign finance and electioneering issues, employment matters, labor relations for unionized nonprofit employers, grant contracts, fiscal agency and sponsorships, real estate, commercial transactions, and pious and charitable property tax exemption. I get great satisfaction from learning about your mission and applying my legal knowledge and skill to help you fulfill it efficiently and effectively.
About Jill Martin Diaz
Jill (they/them, elle/ellx) is an immigration attorney licensed in New York, Vermont, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont. Since becoming VAAP’s first paid staff member in January 2024, Jill has grown the start-up organization into a team of eleven direct service-providing advocates supported by a $1.4M budget. Together, VAAP advocates handle dozens of removal defense matters in immigration and judicial courts each year and hundreds more limited-scope immigration legal matters—in addition to their robust pro bono mobilization, co-counseling and technical assistance, community legal education, and advocacy efforts. Under Jill’s leadership, VAAP has welcomed Vermont’s first-ever Immigrant Justice Corps fellows and now serves as IJC’s first “rural infusion” pilot site; helped launch the FY26 Vermont Immigrant Legal Defense Fund and raise $1M for whole-sector sustainability; supported advocacy for Vermont’s first appropriations for immigration legal aid; piloted Vermont’s first universal representation models for noncitizens in ICE detention; developed one of the country’s earliest Immigration Habeas practice models to scale; and grown the organization’s budget to $1.4 million. Previously, Jill taught doctrinal and clinical immigration law at Vermont Law and Graduate School and has also taught interdisciplinary refugee and immigrant service learning at the University of Vermont School of Social Work. They serve in leadership and advisory roles with AILA New England, AILA National, the Vermont Access to Justice Coalition, the Vermont Treasurer’s Task Force on the 2025 Transition, and the City of Burlington’s community safety planning efforts, among other regional and statewide initiatives. Jill’s work has featured widely from Vermont Public to Al Jazeera. They publish regularly in VTDigger, feature on public access programs hosted by CCTV and ORCA Media, and appear on podcasts including VPIRG’s Vermont Voice, VTDigger’s The Vermont Conversation, and UVM’s Social Work Lens. Jill is a proudly queer, Trans, nonbinary, neurodivergent, heritage Spanish-speaker originally from South Florida. They live in Burlington’s Old North End with their brilliant spouse and beloved pup, Penny.