Hi all,
Cascadia Wikimedians is currently registered as a nonprofit in Washington State. Our next step for fundraising purposes will be to register as a "charity" in Washington State. We have started this process with a request for relevant records from the state Attorney General's Office. After we receive a reply from the AGO, we can complete the remaining steps to become a charity under state law. Charity status will allow us to conduct fundraising activities among the general public in Washington State.
Further down the road is our 501(c)(3) application. We have requested grant funds for the IRS filing fee and for the professional services of an attorney or CPA to assist us with this process. Hopefully we will complete this process in 2016.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Full speed ahead,
Pine
Have you confirmed that you can register as a charity in Washington prior to securing tax exempt status from the IRS?
— James Hare President, Wikimedia DC https://wikimediadc.org @wikimediadc
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Pine W wrote:
Hi all,
Cascadia Wikimedians is currently registered as a nonprofit in Washington State. Our next step for fundraising purposes will be to register as a "charity" in Washington State. We have started this process with a request for relevant records from the state Attorney General's Office. After we receive a reply from the AGO, we can complete the remaining steps to become a charity under state law. Charity status will allow us to conduct fundraising activities among the general public in Washington State.
Further down the road is our 501(c)(3) application. We have requested grant funds for the IRS filing fee and for the professional services of an attorney or CPA to assist us with this process. Hopefully we will complete this process in 2016.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Full speed ahead,
Pine _______________________________________________ Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org (mailto:Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaus-l
Hi James, 501(c)(3) status isn't a prerequisite for registering as a charity in WA.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:56 PM, James Hare james.hare@wikidc.org wrote:
Have you confirmed that you can register as a charity in Washington prior to securing tax exempt status from the IRS?
— James Hare President, Wikimedia DC https://wikimediadc.org @wikimediadc
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Pine W wrote:
Hi all,
Cascadia Wikimedians is currently registered as a nonprofit in
Washington State. Our next step for fundraising purposes will be to register as a "charity" in Washington State. We have started this process with a request for relevant records from the state Attorney General's Office. After we receive a reply from the AGO, we can complete the remaining steps to become a charity under state law. Charity status will allow us to conduct fundraising activities among the general public in Washington State.
Further down the road is our 501(c)(3) application. We have requested
grant funds for the IRS filing fee and for the professional services of an attorney or CPA to assist us with this process. Hopefully we will complete this process in 2016.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Full speed ahead,
Pine _______________________________________________ Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org (mailto:
Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org)
Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list Wikimedia-Cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
Nice work Pine. See you next month at the Wikipedia Cascadia / TA3M meeting. --Ann
_______________________ Sent from my Android. On Nov 17, 2015 4:02 PM, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi James, 501(c)(3) status isn't a prerequisite for registering as a charity in WA.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 3:56 PM, James Hare james.hare@wikidc.org wrote:
Have you confirmed that you can register as a charity in Washington prior to securing tax exempt status from the IRS?
— James Hare President, Wikimedia DC https://wikimediadc.org @wikimediadc
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Pine W wrote:
Hi all,
Cascadia Wikimedians is currently registered as a nonprofit in
Washington State. Our next step for fundraising purposes will be to register as a "charity" in Washington State. We have started this process with a request for relevant records from the state Attorney General's Office. After we receive a reply from the AGO, we can complete the remaining steps to become a charity under state law. Charity status will allow us to conduct fundraising activities among the general public in Washington State.
Further down the road is our 501(c)(3) application. We have requested
grant funds for the IRS filing fee and for the professional services of
an
attorney or CPA to assist us with this process. Hopefully we will
complete
this process in 2016.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Full speed ahead,
Pine _______________________________________________ Wikimediaus-l mailing list Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org (mailto:
Wikimediaus-l@lists.wikimedia.org)
Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list Wikimedia-Cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
Wikimedia-Cascadia mailing list Wikimedia-Cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-cascadia
wikimedia-cascadia@lists.wikimedia.org