Donald W. Kramer

Donald W. Kramer has more than 45 years of experience dealing with the concerns of nonprofit organizations, not only as a lawyer, but also as a teacher, writer, publisher, and board member. He has worked with nonprofits of all types and sizes, helping structure startup situations and restructure multiorganizational health and educational systems. He counsels on a wide range of nonprofit corporate structure and governance, private and community foundations, continuing care retirement communities, exempt organization taxation, low-income housing tax credit transactions, real estate, charitable giving, and other nonprofit issues.

Don has represented The Philadelphia Foundation for more than 40 years and has worked with nonprofit organizations of all types and sizes.

Don serves as the editor and publisher of Don Kramer's Nonprofit Issues®, a national newsletter of "Nonprofit Law You Need to Know," which he founded in 1989.

He has taught nonprofit organization law at Eastern University, the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. He produces a monthly webinar on nonprofit legal issues with the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations and talks regularly before other organizations.

Prior to joining Montgomery McCracken, Don served as deputy development coordinator and assistant to the mayor of Philadelphia.

A graduate of Princeton University, Don received an A.B. degree with honors. At Princeton, he was chairman of The Daily Princetonian. He earned an LL.B. degree from Harvard Law School, where he served as president of the Harvard Law Record.