Betsy Buchalter Adler
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Position: Principal
Organization: Silk, Adler and Colvin
Location: San Francisco, CA
Betsy Buchalter Adler is a member of the Legal Framework Work Group.
Betsy Buchalter Adler is a principal in the San Francisco firm of Silk, Adler & Colvin. She specializes in tax-exempt organizations, with an emphasis on grantmaking charities, including family, company, and community foundations, internal governance issues, and international philanthropy. Ms. Adler is currently the chair of the Exempt Organizations Committee of the American Bar Association Tax Section and was the founding chair of the Tax-Exempt Organizations Committee of the California State Bar's Tax Section. She lectures frequently on legal issues of interest to nonprofit organizations, has published numerous articles, and is the author of The Rules of the Road: A Guide to the Law of Charities in the United States, published by the Council on Foundations. She is an officer of the Cisco Learning Institute and a member of the board of directors of The Foundation Incubator. She holds a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.