I believe it is fair to say this is like dejavew all over again. For various reasons I prefer to say get the advice of Rob's wife as opposed to stating anything directly. My belief is that if asked she would likely say the following:
1. If at all possible use an umbrella organization. An aside, it would seem this might be a good service for LI to provide LUGS. 2. If your annual contributions do not exceed $5K, then you really don't need to do anything. 3. If you want to obtain your own determination letter, the 501(c)(3) is the way to go. 4. You need to do some work to develop budgets, develop projected income and expenses, develop proposed activities, create bylaws, and develop a formal, functional organization. 5. Once you have done 4, the application is actually rather easy. -- Ed Lawson Ham Callsign: K1VP PGP Key ID: 1591EAD3 PGP Key Fingerprint: 79A1 CDC3 EF3D 7F93 1D28 2D42 58E4 2287 1591 EAD3 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-org mailing list gnhlug-org@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org/
