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Add nonprofitStatus for coverage of non-profit organizations #19

Open lucy-kind opened 4 years ago

lucy-kind commented 4 years ago

This will allow coverage of non-profit organizations. Since non-profits fall under different categories in different countries, the added property of nonprofitStatus will allow this to be an internationally applicable schema.

Proposal:

Under Organization: Add new property of "nonprofitStatus”, which will take a new type “NonprofitType”, comprising a list of preliminary enums, as well as the type Text for now.

The preliminary enum list can include the nonprofit types for US listed on the US gov site, plus the UK charity types listed on the UK gov site. In the future, we can consider adding to the list of enums as needed.

Under NonprofitType: Add the following enums:

bquinn commented 4 years ago

Can I propose a new type: LimitedByGuarantee or LimitedByGuaranteeNotCharity or something similar. Trade associations and industry standards organisations like IPTC are officially "limited by guarantee" but cannot apply for charitable status as their aims are commercial (supporting an industry) rather than charitable.

Ireland and Australia (at least) have the same mechanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_company_limited_by_guarantee

I've also found "Community Amateur Sports Club" which is distinct from a charity

drkane commented 4 years ago

I maintain a repository of UK non-profit organisations. There's a few others that might be helpful to include:

I'd also support adding Community Amateur Sports Club and LimitedByGuarantee.

RichardWallis commented 3 years ago

See issue #7 for the context of the move from the main Schema.org issue tracker to this repository.