Professional Bono Highlight: Ok-9 Studying Buddies Pivots To Hybrid Mannequin, Secures Tax Exempt Standing – Administration

Throughout and because the pandemic, longtime professional bono shopper K-9 Reading Buddies of the North
Shore has known as on Katten to help its distinctive literacy
program that makes use of studying groups with registered remedy canines to
inspire kids to learn. Since its founding in 2007, Ok-9 Studying
Buddies’ remedy groups have labored with greater than 2,500 at-risk
readers within the Chicago space.

Attorneys from throughout the agency have labored with the Highland
Park, Illinois, group to safe tax-exempt standing and create
a collection of supplies enabling it to proceed operations throughout a
distant and hybrid atmosphere. Notably, New York-based accomplice and
Co-Privateness Officer Trisha Sircar, Privateness, Information and Cybersecurity,
led a staff to draft related privateness insurance policies, disclosures,
releases and consent varieties so as to help with the
group’s transition to the hybrid instructing atmosphere.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the group tailored by permitting
kids to enroll in Zoom studying classes with the remedy
groups, which was a inventive and profitable technique to hold youngsters
studying.

And earlier in 2022, Chicago affiliate Rachel Kammerzell,
Monetary Markets and Funds, helped renew its gross sales tax exemption
with the Illinois Division of Income.

Rachel is impressed by the way in which this group has grown from
one easy thought to have the ability to assist so many kids with what might
in any other case be a really anxious studying course of. Added Trisha,
“The truth that I used to be capable of work with kids and canines was
the icing on the cake.”

The Ok-9 Studying Buddies is featured in Katten’s 2022 Professional
Bono Annual Assessment. Read the full
issue.

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