Donald W. Kramer

• Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

• Served as counsel to the Berwick Healthcare Corporation in the sale of a nonprofit hospital to the for-profit Community Health Systems as well as in the creation of the Berwick Health and Wellness Foundation, now known as Central Susquehanna Community Foundation
• Assisted in the sale of the nonprofit Brandywine Hospital to Community Health Systems
• Represented numerous nonprofit organizations in multiple matters of corporate restructuring to protect assets and centralize strategic planning and implementation

• Speaker, “Bylaws: The “Constitution” of Nonprofits,” Nonprofit Issues, January 18, 2023
• Speaker, Montgomery McCracken’s 29th Annual “This Year in Nonprofit Law,” November 20, 2019
• Speaker, “Leadership Moments,” Arts + Business Council of Greater Philadelphia’s (ABC) Business on Board, May 2019
• Speaker, “Law & Ethics: Board Roles and Responsibilities,” Arts + Business Council of Greater Philadelphia’s (ABC) Business on Board, January 2019
• Speaker, Montgomery McCracken’s 28th Annual “This Year in Nonprofit Law,” November 13, 2018
• Speaker, “Law & Ethics: Board Roles and Responsibilities,” Arts + Business Council of Greater Philadelphia’s (ABC) Business on Board, January 2018
• Speaker, “Nonprofit Fiscal Health Check: Maximizing Operations with Sound Governance,” The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia, December 2017
• Speaker, Montgomery McCracken’s 27^th Annual “This Year in Nonprofit Law,” November 2017
• Speaker, Montgomery McCracken’s 26^th Annual “This Year in Nonprofit Law,” November 2016
• Speaker, Montgomery McCracken’s 25^th Annual “This Year in Nonprofit Law”, December 2015
• Faculty member, “The Planned Giving Course,” Partnership for Philanthropic Planning of Greater Philadelphia, April 2015
• Course planner, “Protecting Your Charity in Charitable Giving,” PBI Nonprofit Series, March 2015
• Speaker, Montgomery McCracken’s 24th Annual “This Year in Nonprofit Law”, November 2014
• Speaker, “Board roles, responsibilities, and governance structures,” Chester County Library System, October 2014
• Speaker, “Crafting More Powerful Gift Acknowledgments,” Planned Giving Day, Partnership for Philanthropic Planning of Greater Philadelphia, October 2014
• Speaker, “State Charitable Solicitation Statues:Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask,” PANO, October 2014
• Presenter, “Nonprofit Mergers, Acquisitions and Affiliations,” Nonprofit Issues, March 2014
• Presenter, “What non-union employers need to know about the NLRA –and it’s alot,” Nonprofit Issues webinar, February 2014
• Speaker, Montgomery McCracken’s 23rd Annual “This Year in Nonprofit Law,” November 2013
• Presenter, “State Charitable Solicitation Statutes: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask,” Nonprofit Issues webinar, October 2013
• Speaker, “Lobbying and Electioneering for Nonprofits,” Nonprofit Issues webinar, September 2013
• Speaker, “Lessons Learned from the Freeh Report,” Montgomery McCracken’s Forum for Colleges and Universities, March 2013
• Presenter, “Safeguarding Your Nonprofit Organization-What You Need to Know,” January 2013
• Speaker, Montgomery McCracken’s 22nd Annual “This Year in Nonprofit Law,” November 2012
• Speaker, “Pennsylvania Tax Exemptions for Nonprofits – Is Your Charity Prepared to Defend Its Tax Exemption After a Recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court Case?,” Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI), July 2012
• Speaker, Montgomery McCracken’s 21st Annual “This Year in Nonprofit Law,” November 2012
• Presenter, “Representing Non-Profits for Non-Specialists,” American Bar Institute (ALI-ABA), June 2011

• Quoted in, “‘Have they locked the doors?’ Judge presses for details on Hershey charity spat with board member.,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2021
• Author, “Nonprofit Issues: Coronavirus (COVID-19) Questions and Answers,” April 2020
• Quoted in, “Put Hershey funds to good use,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 2016
• Quoted in, “Readers: Startingly rich Milton Hershey School should expand mission with $12B” The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 2016
• Quoted in, “The Pa. Attorney General has tried to fix Hershey Trust for years. Will this probe be different?” The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 2016
• Quoted in. “Visit Philadelphia could have recovered embezzled funds with insurance,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 2016
• Co-author, “Nonprofit Leadership and the Law“, Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 2000 (updated in 2001)

• Pennsylvania Super Lawyers – Nonprofit Organizations, 2019
• The Best Lawyers in America© – Non-Profit/Charities Law, 2012-2023
• The Best Lawyers in America©: “Lawyer of the Year” – Non-Profit/Charities Law

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Don serves as a member of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Association of Nonprofit Organizations. He has taught nonprofit law at The University of Pennsylvania Law School, the School of Social Policy and Practices at The University of Pennsylvania and Eastern University. He is the director of the Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement and the Partnership for Philanthropies Planning of Greater Philadelphia. He also serves on the board of the Octavia Hill Association, a corporation providing housing primarily for moderate income families in Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Fire Department Historical Corporation.

Law School

• Harvard Law School

Undergraduate School

• Princeton University