Hi Lion, Regarding your Not-For Profit question. You might look at http://www.tidescenter.org/
<http://www.tidescenter.org/>They are in CA and handle filing, taxes and whatnot for non-profits. -Matt On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Lion Kimbro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > SATURDAY HOUSE! > > TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS (and some questions...): > > I. "Anyone have a space for Saturday?" > II. Permanent Space: Status Update > III. Questions about NFP/501-3c's > > > I. "Anyone have a space for Saturday?" > > First, my apologies: I've dropped the ball. Unless someone can > spontaneously grant us a location for Saturday, we do not have a > location this Saturday. We were going to go hiking, but I didn't > reconnect with organizers quickly enough. > > Lesson Learned: I need a clearly understood and commited location > for the next two weeks, at all times. > > If anyone can volunteer a location for Saturday House for this > Saturday or the following Saturday, please let me know ASAP: > 206.427.2545, or post to the list. > > If anyone knows fun activities or parties this Saturday, please post > them to the list..! > > > II. PERMANENT SPACE > > "The Seattle Creative Commons" > (code-name only, will be changed) > > For the last month, I've been involved in meetings every Monday for > the development of a new space. > > The vision is of a place modelled after Bucketworks: A place where > multiple disciplines act with and besides each other, sharing > talents and tools, to extraordinary effect. Please look through the > Bucketworks website, if you haven't already: > > http://bucketworks.org/ > > My plan is for this to be the place where Saturday House meets every > Saturday. > > People who've been consistently working on it include: > * Willow Bloo (Seattle Transhumanist group lead,) > * Ben Dobies (film man, of Dead Gentlemen Productions > http://www.deadgentlemen.com/ ), > * Rob (whom I do not know so well), > * Baron (whom I do not know so well), > * and myself (Saturday House.) > > There are several others who have attended meetings and are > enthusiastic about the project. Notes (and full audio) from > meetings are available on the Seattle Transhumanists wiki. > > http://st.imul.us/index.php?title=Seattle_Creative_Commons > > We have a strategy by which we may get us a place within 2 months > (August,) and a longer term strategy that would get us a place > within 4 months (October.) > > > III. Questions about NFP/501-3c's. > > As part of the space effort, we have some open questions. If anyone > could contact me with answers, it would be greatly appreciated. > > * Does anyone know of a Not-For-Profit (NFP) umbrella organization > that the Seattle Creative Commons or Saturday House could be > embodied by? > > We'd like to get a bank account, and an NFP for space donors to > name when they issue their write-offs on warehouse space. > > * Can For-Profit ventures operate within space owned by an NFP? > > For example, if people want to start a business from within the > Seattle Creative Commons' space, how does that work out? > > > Thanks, all! > > And again: Please let us know if you know of an event this weekend, > or if your space is available this weekend or next weekend. > > > > > -- Matt Paulin [email protected] 206.905.8568 ext16 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
