Immersive Worlds: Science, Narrative, and the Arts is a full-day, conference and exhibit held in the Baruch Performing Arts Center which explores the impact of immersive technologies across multiple disciplines including advertising, data, arts, education, science, and journalism.

Form 990 is one of the most public and transparent of all returns. Unless allowed to file a simpler 990-EZ or 990-N, Form 990 must be filed completely and accurately each year by every exempt organizations or they can lose tax their exemption. This workshop will cover some of the more complex areas of the form and provide tips to avoid misreporting or being audited by the IRS. It also cover how to get your tax exemption restated after revocation.

Floyd Norris gives the keynote at the 10th Annual Audit Conference.

The governments of Russia and China are actively promoting the expansion of their nonprofit sectors as partners in service delivery and civic participation. But both are also seeking to put limits on nonprofit operations. This seminar will explore current dynamics by addressing the history and evolution of the nonprofit sectors in Russia and China, opportunities and restrictions for US nonprofits seeking to operate there, and government oversight of nonprofits.

This nonprofit seminar is presented by David Rivel, Chief Executive

Officer of The Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services. It focuses on considerations

for large organizations getting even larger, planning for growth in programs

and administration, factors affecting transfer of government contracts to new

sponsoring organizations and more. Gail B. Nayowith,

Principal, 1digit LLC moderates the event.  

The winner and finalists from this year’s Brooke W. Mahoney Award for Outstanding Board Leadership sit down with Dean David Birdsell of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs and Chair of VCG Governance Matters for a frank conversation about what makes their Boards–and their organizations–successful. Organizations represented include Transportation Alternatives, Global Kids, The New York Bar Foundation, Queens Community House, and Reach the World.

Representative from the Municipal Credit Union Tra'lynn Husbands discusses personal credit; CUNY graduates Eli Attias, founder of Exambler, and David Kurfirst and Chris Zumtobel, co-founders of ThinkOlio discuss how to manage their finances while launching their startups.

An interview and Q&A with Zicklin School of Business alumnus Joseph Ripp. Hear how Mr. Ripp climbed the corporate ladder, making the transition from CFO to CEO. Discover what it takes to lead a company (Time, Inc.) with over 90 brands and 50 global offices. Take away lessons to apply to your academic career at Baruch and beyond.

Pursuant to the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC (2010), corporations have a new ability to spend money in American elections. But is it a good idea for public facing or publicly traded firms to spend in politics? In a forthcoming law review article, “Shooting Your Brand in the Foot: What Citizens United Invites” Associate Professor of Law Ciara Torres-Spelliscy argues that corporate political spending could harm a firm’s brand and expose the firm to reputational risks. The American electorate is increasingly polarized. Technologists have created smart phone applications to empower consumers to know more about a firm’s political spending history. Thus a politically polarized electorate may bring their partisanship to the shopping mall or to the stock market and take it out on firms that support the opposing political party.