PA Benefit Corporation Evening Seminar

Have you heard of benefit corp and want to know more? Are you a mission-driven company that wants to bake your values into your legal DNA? Interested in learning about a new corporate structure available for Pennsylvania businesses?
Join B Lab, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, and the Pennsylvania community of Certified B Corps for a free workshop on the new benefit corporation structure, if it makes sense for your business, how to elect it, benefits, and all the nuts and bolts.
Over 100 companies across… Show more the country have already elected the benefit corporation structure, including leaders like King Arthur Flour, Patagonia, and Sun Light & Power. The legislation goes into effect on 1/22/13, and there will be significant press opportunities for first movers in PA who elect benefit corp then. This workshop is the first step to making sure your business can be one of them.
The event, Drinker Biddle & Reath on 12/11, 5:30-7:30PM, will include presentations from Bill Clark of Drinker Biddle & Reath, author of the legislation, as well as Jay Coen Gilbert, co-founder of B Lab. A reception will follow the seminar.
Impatient? For more information about benefit corporation, visit www.benefitcorp.net. If you have questions please email info@benefitcorp.net.
*Keep an eye out for full details for an adoption event on January 22, the first effective date of the PA benefit corporation legislation. There will be significant press opportunities for the first adopters of the legislation, as seen at a similar CA event: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/11/1053080/-The-Start-of-a-Revolution.
**Please share this invitation with any other companies or contacts that might be interested in benefit corporation legislation.

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