[GLLUG] linux charities?

[Nicholas Kwiatkowski]

Starting an Non-Profit 501(c)(3) is very expensive as of the new round of
laws.  Just to apply for the IRS paperwork, you are looking at over $1,000,
let alone any attorney fees that will be required to go over the paperwork
when you get it.  

You would also be bound to a very strict set of rules on what the money can
and can't be used for.  The scope of the group would also have to be
strictly adhered to as well.

I know there is an offer from LINC to help some of the local user groups out
in this regard...  Has that thought been followed?

-Nick Kwiatkowski


-----Original Message-----
From: linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu [mailto:linux-user-bounces at egr.msu.edu]
On Behalf Of Richard Houser
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 8:29 PM
To: Eduardo Cesconetto
Cc: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] linux charities?

Registering as a non-profit requires a lot of paperwork and the overhead 
would likely remove all the benefit to a group our size.  My parents 
have been involved in some non-profit groups and the only way it was 
really doable was to get an existing non-profit to oversee the group (in 
those cases, a school district overseeing various booster and 
fund-raising groups).  Even some of the multi-million dollar Mozilla 
projects are for-profit companies just to lessen the overhead costs.  We 
could still use funds to educate, but I think the big difference is that 
those funds would not be tax deductible, so the individual donating 
still pays the tax.

Eduardo Cesconetto wrote:
> We are also thinking of turning GLLUG into a NPO, and if that is the 
> case, we can use funds to educate.
> 
> On Sep 24, 2007, at 7:32 PM, Benjamin Cathey wrote:
> 
>> are there any Linux charities that you may know of?  Real charities 
>> that is - not, "I need a server farm." ;)
>>
>>
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