Scott Chaplan Leads Capacity Building Series

Scott Chaplan, Executive Chair of the Urban Group of Companies, was a featured speaker at "The How To's of Faith and Community-Based Non Profit Development & Management" lecture held at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Los Angeles Branch. The event was presented by the Levital Network Education Foundation and took place on Thursday, April 30 in dowtown Los Angeles.

Mr. Chaplan, an active faith based and non-profit practitioner who serves on numerous boards of such groups in Los Angeles, has spent 15 years building the Urban Group of Companies into a diversified equity investment and services company with 104 employees and over 40 properties within 5 states. Urban companies that directly serve the faith-based and non-profit spaces include Urban Seminars and Urban Consulting.

Mr. Chaplan, a lawyer by training, was a panelist for the first seminar, "Non-Profit Development - Understanding the Procedure, Purpose & Principles" on which he spoke of the legal purposes for incorporating a non-profit organization, whether sacred or secular, and the procedures and principles that should guide an organization through the process. He brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the discussion, having helped form and having served on the founding boards of directors of several secular and faith-based non-profit organizations.