Marty Martin

Nonprofit and business organizations operate in challenging environments which require knowledge and understanding of the complex interchanges among legal, leadership, management, policy, and regulatory demands. Operating at the convergence of these factors, Marty Martin provides a range of legal, training, and consulting services to nonprofit and business organizations. His goal is to help an organization’s leadership find optimal solutions to their needs by combining a unique combination of a lawyer’s skills, a nonprofit practitioner’s experience, and advanced training in nonprofit organizations.

Marty has experienced the life cycle of an organization from its founding through its closing. He has served as a board chairman for and worked with a variety of nonprofit organizations serving local, regional, state, and national constituencies. Some of their diverse issues include Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral palsy, juvenile justice, leadership development, lacrosse, and a university related foundation . As part of a bar association’s public service project, he co-founded an innovative nonprofit child care organization for which he was featured in Lawyer’s Weekly USA.

Martin serves on the national IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities (see appointment announcement). He is an instructor with the Duke Nonprofit Management Certificate program and related Intensive and Advanced Leadership Programs. He is affiliated with the North Carolina State University Institute for Nonprofits.

Martin received his law degree from Western New England School of Law and received a Master in Public Administration (MPA) degree with a concentration in managing nonprofit and public sector organizations from the Harvard Kennedy School. Unique among nonprofit practitioners world wide, he also has completed advanced training in nonprofit organizations through:

• Harvard Business School’s Initiative on Social Enterprise
• Harvard Kennedy School’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
• Duke University’s Nonprofit Management Certificate program
• Center for Creative Leadership
• BoardSource.

Training and speaking are an integral part of his practice. He has presented before diverse audiences and groups including Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard Business School, Duke University’s Fuqua Business School, Western New England University School of Law, North Carolina State University, Duke University’s Fuqua Business School, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, High Point University, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits, South Carolina Association of Nonprofit Organizations, Association of Fund Raising Professionals, North Carolina Bar Association, and North Carolina’s Administrative Office of the Courts. For a full listing, see his Presentations page and Training page.

He has authored or co-authored numerous articles and manuals on nonprofit organizations. For a complete listing, see his Publications page.

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