Sowing More Seeds… 32 Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty: The Council serves as an advocate and defender for individuals in crisis and a voice for an overlooked population, and creates solutions for the growing problem of Jewish poverty in New York City. Jeffrey Moerdler oversees Mintz Levin’s varied pro bono efforts for the Council. Suited for Change: Founded in 1992, Suited for Change provides professional clothing and ongoing career and life skills education to low-income women to increase their employment and job retention potential and to contribute to their economic independence. Karen Lovitch managed our relationship with this client, which involved compliance and other non-profit work, with assistance from Tyrone Thomas, Rebecca Geller and Quincy Ewell. Boston Wesleyan Association The Boston Wesleyan Association, publisher of a magazine called The Progressive Christian, came to Mintz Levin in dire need of non-profit organizational advice. Attorneys John Regier, Anthony Hubbard, and Barry Steinman willingly answered the call. A representative from the Association wrote to Mintz Levin, stating, “Clearly the BWA can never pay you for all the work that you did, always going above and beyond what was expected. And words of thanks are also inadequate, but I do truly thank you, as does the entire BWA.” Mark Lamb Dance Mark Lamb Dance, a group of diverse, socially committed movement artists, performs concerts and dances and also conducts educational workshops to encourage creativity and social activism among their audiences. The group was previ- ously organized as a for-profit corporation. Mintz Levin helped the company unwind that entity, and re-incorporate as a not- for-profit. Faith Charles, Carrie Kreifels, and Nyisha Shakur are currently seeking tax-exempt status for the company. Millennium Campus Network The Millennium Campus Network (MCN) is an organization of university student groups committed to supporting the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to eradicate extreme poverty. The MCN brings together student organizations at leading universities to make the anti-poverty movement—in the spirit of the MDGs—a fully cross-disciplinary, collaborative and integrated effort. Marianne Staniunas and Julia Siripurapu, with the guidance of Anthony Hubbard and Cynthia Larose, worked with MCN’s student leaders to incorporate the organization as a Massachusetts charitable corporation, to obtain 501(c)(3) status for the organization, and to begin expanding its activities outside of Massachusetts. As a non-profit organization, MCN has been able to apply for grant funding and to extend its activities and its impact beyond Massachusetts’ university campuses, reaching out to student groups with similar missions across the country. …To Encourage Strong Roots