Service Levels
Entry
$1,000
5 inquiries/year
Basic
$1,700
10 inquiries/year
Premium
$2,500
Unlimited inquiries/year
How It Works
Foundation Legal Help Desk operates through a secure web portal, allowing you to send questions to our on-call attorneys. An attorney specialized in the topic area responds to you directly with a written answer or makes arrangements for a phone conversation.
See details about this service:
- This service is designed to provide brief answers to questions, providing up to a maximum of one hour on any one question. The attorney will be able to advise the foundation if they need to engage counsel to assist them with a complex legal issue or gift.
- The attorney will be able to advise you if the foundation needs to engage counsel to further assist with a complex legal issue or gift.
- The attorney can review documents but will not prepare any documents.
- This service is for legal questions that relate to the operation of a foundation, not legal issues facing a foundation’s grantees.
- Foundation Legal Help Desk reserves the right to decline a request that is clearly beyond the scope of a one-hour engagement.
- Our goal is to respond within 24 hours (Monday-Friday during the business week); attorneys are not available on an immediate basis.
Meet Our Attorney
Attorneys providing this service have specialized knowledge in grantmaking, scholarships, fund management, planned giving, nonprofit law, the Pension Protection Act, UPMIFA, and other laws that specifically affect the operations of a foundation.
Phil Purcell, CFRE, MPA/JD
Director of Planned Giving
Central Territory of the Salvation Army
In his role as director, Phil is the directional leader of 39 planned giving officers in 11 states who close approximately $70 million in planned gifts each year. Formerly, he served as Senior Counsel for Philanthropy on behalf of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students where he assisted approximately twenty major gift officers engaged in a $250 million multi-year campaign with a $100 million goal for planned giving.
Phil has consulted on behalf of over 300 charitable organizations of all types. His consulting focuses on state and federal legal issues (e.g., bylaws, tax exemption applications), philanthropy (e.g., fundraising, gift agreements, policies/procedures, endowments, planned giving) and nonprofit governance (e.g., strategic planning, duties of boards of directors). He has served as an expert witness in court cases and trials on topics related to the law of philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, endowments, scholarships and related issues.
Interested?
Contact our Help Desk Administrator
