Thanks for the hard work on our books Daniel! Landon
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:37 PM, Daniel Morissette <dmorisse...@mapgears.com>wrote: > OSGeo Members, > > This email is to give you a few quick updates on OSGeo's finance front: > > 1- 2013 budget > > The 2013 budget has been adopted at the 2013-04-11 board meeting. It is > available in the wiki at > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/**OSGeo_Budget_2013<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2013> > > 2- Outsourcing of book keeping and accounting > > Since the early days of OSGeo, all book keeping and accounting was done by > our Executive Director, and then in 2011 I took over those tasks as > treasurer. However accounting is better done by a real accountant and > having a volunteer treasurer handling those tasks is not sustainable in the > long run, especially when the treasurer is likely to change from year to > year. For this reason we are looking into options to outsource the book > keeping and accounting tasks to an accountant knowledgeable about > nonprofits to help keep our books straight, produce regular financial > statements, and mostly insure continuity between treasurers from year to > year. We may have found a skilled and affordable resource to handle this > for us. One of the first tasks for this resource would be to review and > cleanup the books from past years as needed and then produce formal > financial statements for fiscal years 2011 and 2012 that we can then share > with our members. More info about this in the not too distant future I hope. > > 3- Non-profit status with the IRS (a.k.a. 501c3 status) > > Our nonprofit status in the US is not resolved yet. We had an exchange > with the IRS agent responsible for our case a few weeks ago and provided > some missing information. I expect that we will hear back from them soon > with a decision on our status. More info about our recent exchanges with > the IRS is available at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/** > 501c3_Application:_Questions_**from_IRS,_September_2012<http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/501c3_Application:_Questions_from_IRS,_September_2012> > > That's it for now > > Daniel (OSGeo Treasurer) > ______________________________**_________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/**mailman/listinfo/discuss<http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss> >
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