[Foundation-l] A new proposal regarding US chapters

[Dan Rosenthal]

Exactly. To whit, Anthony's "virtual" national chapter, or similar  
"shell chapter" kind of ideas are one of the few kinds of national  
chapter that I would personally support.

-Dan
On May 6, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Andrew Whitworth wrote:

> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> No, the US does not need one national chapter. This has been gone  
>> over
>> time and again.  Anthony's strategy provides for a guiding body to
>> oversee the local chapters (something that takes too much time and
>> effort for the foundation to do, and also something they must be
>> separate from for liability reasons), but keeps the emphasis on the
>> local chapters, to conduct local events and local outreach, something
>> that they can do far better than any national chapter, while national
>> stuff can be reserved for the WMF to handle. The national guiding  
>> body
>> also simplifies the issue of the US local chapters candidates for the
>> 2 board seats.
>
> The existence of a "virtual" national chapter, a chapter that exists
> as a hollow shell of sorts, would enable state- and locally-based
> groups to qualify for 503(c) status under a group exemption. Putting
> this kind of parent/child structure in place now would be helpful if
> we decided to move towards a more nationally-organized structure in
> the future (which might not be entirely unlikely).
>
> I'm not necessarily advocating this, just showing it as a way in which
> the existence of a US national chapter might be nice, even if it's not
> strictly necessary.
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
>
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