codecleveland / manifesto

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Set up non-profit organization #4

Open soulcutter opened 6 years ago

soulcutter commented 6 years ago

In order to solicit sponsors, a non-profit organization seems like a beneficial legal entity.

http://www.sos.state.oh.us/sos/upload/publications/busserv/nonprofit.pdf

I am currently looking into the requirements to register this with the IRS and state of Ohio

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davekiss commented 6 years ago

@soulcutter can you submit a tl;dr with your findings to summarize for anyone who comes across?

soulcutter commented 6 years ago

A friend of mine happens to be in the middle of setting up their own Non-profit organization and the shared contact info with me for somebody from https://akron.score.org/ (there's also https://cleveland.score.org/ ). I am reaching out to them currently…