
Philanthropy & Football


Jewish Community Foundation of Greater MetroWest’s Professional Advisor Network (PAN) and Federation’s Business and Professional Network (BPN) team up for an evening of football, networking, and philanthropy!
Join Christina N. Cahill, an attorney on Polsinelli’s Strategic Nonprofit Solutions team, for a presentation on non-cash donations followed by networking, food*, and the Titans v. Bills football game.
*Light dinner (football fare and beer) will be served. Kosher dietary laws observed.
Questions? Please contact Yaffa Karp at ykarp@jfedgmw.org.
Christina N. Cahill focuses on advising on the tax aspects of charitable giving, philanthropy and representation of domestic and international nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations. Christina is a member of the Strategic Nonprofit Solutions team, which helps nonprofits and other social impact-oriented organizations and individuals solve their most crucial strategic, administrative and development challenges. She provides counsel and education on qualifications for tax-exempt status, board governance practices and policies for financial and legal compliance. With deep experience in tax-exempt organization issues and management, state regulatory compliance requirements, and donor advised fund (DAF) legal administration, Christina is passionate about providing a personalized approach to organizations and individuals to allow clients to focus on maximizing philanthropic impact.
Christina also leverages her background in mergers and acquisitions, litigation and complex government matters to provide strategic counsel to clients regarding corporate transactions and entity structuring. She has also worked with individual clients on estate planning, tax and property law aspects of trusts and estates, and estate administration. Before attending law school, Christina was a Teach for America corps member in New York City, where she taught fourth grade in the South Bronx.
Professional Advisors Network (PAN) Leadership:
Eugenia Yudanin, Advisory Chair, Orloff Lowenbach Stifelman & Siegel
Matthew Abrams, Sills Cummis & Gross
Gary Botwinick, Einhorn, Barbarito, Frost and Botwinick, PC
Larry Chodor, Wiss
Steven Fishman, Norwood Financial Group
Benjamin Lehrhoff, Bernstein
Mark Lewis, JP Morgan Private Bank
Richard Lipton, Lipton CPA Associates
Jean Mandell, Stephanie Sherman Associates
Harris Nydick, CFS Investment Advisory Services
Michael Schechner, Schechner Lifson Corporation
Jonathan Schwartz, Proskauer Rose LLP
Floyd Shapiro, Orloff Lowenbach Stifelman & Siegel
Anita Siegel, Siegel & Bergman, LLC
Sandra Weiss, J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Business & Professionals Network (BPN) Leadership:
Becky Novin Cannon and Ben Lehrhoff, Division Chairs
Evan Schonfeld, NextDor BPN Chair
Robyn Laveman, Vice President, Pomegranate Campaign, Women’s Philanthropy
BPN Committee:
Matt Beck, Philip Bershad, Jason Black, Rachel Braun Scherl, Michele Fine, Marc Hausman, Casey Holstein, Deborah Jacob, Michael Kaplan, Sherri Langburt, Liz Liss, Jenna Ovadia, Mark Polson, Andrea Rosen, Adam Sandler, Zev Scherl, Alex Skibinsky, Brent Weisenberg, and Ari Wise