Experience

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  Belin Consulting

  • New York and Los Angeles

  • Principal

    • Jan 2000 - Present
    • New York and Los Angeles

    Belin Consulting is a small consulting and advisory firm whose principal clients are charitable foundations and their donors, officers and trustees, and individuals in regard to their philanthropic interests. We do most of our work in New York, Los Angeles and Italy.Our principal, Daniel Belin, brings forty years of advisory and practical experience to his work with foundations and a variety of other not-for-profit organizations. All of our work is performed with his hands-on involvement.Services and specialties we provide to foundations:• Reports to officers and trustees regarding experienced evaluation of grant requests and post-grant programmatic progress• Board, management and administrative support• Implementation of Trustee Succession Decisions and Trustee Training • Policy Facilitation on matters including grant programming and mission statements • Regular review of foundation activity to ensure statutory and regulatory compliance• Attorney and Accountant Liaison• Accessibility to officers and trustees on an ongoing basisFor more information on our expertise and clients, please visit our website: http://www.belin-consulting.com.

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  Belin Rawlings & Badal

  • Managing Partner

    • Jan 1990 - Jan 2000

    Trial lawyer specializing in business, class-action, tax, real estate, non-profit, securities, and trust and estate litigation.Another part of Dan's law practice was focused on providing foundations and their donors, officers and trustees with legal advice on a regular basis. This work involved corporate, tax and regulatory counseling, assisting clients through a variety of regulatory disputes and litigations with both state and federal authorities.Dan also provided advice to a number of grant-receiving non-profits, particularly universities, museums and other cultural institutions. His intensive involvement with grant-receiving organizations provided a valuable perspective in his ongoing representation of foundations.At the time that Dan was practicing law, he served as an active participant on boards of trustees of both foundations and grant-receiving organizations, in several instances as head of the board or of key board committees. In those capacities, he developed hands-on experience as a principal of and not solely as an advisor to the non-profit community.

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  McKenna Conner & Cuneo

  • Attorney

    • Jan 1963 - Jan 1990