<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt"><div><span>OK. Let's drop the 501 idea...</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="color:rgb(128, 0, 0);font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;"><span style="color:rgb(191, 0, 191);"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></span></span><hr style="width:100%;height:2px;"><span style="color:rgb(128, 0, 0);font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;"><span style="color:rgb(191, 0, 191);"><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color:rgb(255, 0, 0);"><font style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="3">Judi Galardi's</font><span style="text-decoration:underline;"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255);text-decoration:underline;">THRAE BACK ATCHA!</span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 255);"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0,
0);">is here. Not here! At my website: www.judithgalardi.com or </span>at: www.authorhouse.com. My other books are also available.<br></div> <div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: bookman old style, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Pat Barron <pat@lectroid.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> wplug-board@wplug.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 5, 2012 6:58 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [wplug-board] 501c3<br> </font> </div> <br>Thanks for sharing your experience, Joe! I agree with your
assessment. <br>Even if we can find an attorney to do the work pro bono (and not charge <br>us for their time), the filing fees are a "hard" expense (i.e., someone <br>has to come up with that money, in cash). At the moment, we really <br>can't even afford to buy the banners, unless we can get a grant (or find <br>a generous benefactor) to pay for it....<br><br>--Pat.<br><br>On 04/05/2012 4:39 PM, Joseph Prostko wrote:<br>> To be quite honest, we really don't have enough money to pay for a<br>> 501(c)(3) at the moment. Generally you file for a state non-profit<br>> and 501(c)(3) at the same time as well, as it smoothens out the<br>> process a bit. To give you an idea, Burgh Bees (the other group I'm<br>> on the board of directors of) has been a state NPO for several years,<br>> as due to lack of money at the time we filed at the state level only.<br>> We can do it now that we're bringing in much more
money, but even we<br>> are trying to find a cheap way to do 501(c)(3). The best quote we<br>> found for somebody who wouldn't do it pro-bono was 1,500 dollars, plus<br>> the 850 dollars worth of filing fees (which is a mandatory expense).<br>> The average quote was around 3,000 dollars plus filing fees. That<br>> said, we may have found somebody to do it pro-bono plus the filing<br>> fees, but that isn't concrete at all yet, so I can't elaborate<br>> further. So yeah, best case we need to have an extra 900 dollars<br>> lying around allocated just for this, so I don't really see it being<br>> possible at the moment.<br>><br>> - joe<br>><br>><br>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:52 PM, JUDI GALARDI<<a ymailto="mailto:judigalardi@verizon.net" href="mailto:judigalardi@verizon.net">judigalardi@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br>>> If I can find an attny to help fill out the 501c3, should we go
for it?<br>>> We could ask for more grants that way.<br>>> Judi<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> ________________________________<br>>><br>>> Judi Galardi's THRAE BACK ATCHA! is here. Not here! At my website:<br>>> www.judithgalardi.com or at: www.authorhouse.com. My other books are also<br>>> available.<br>>><br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> wplug-board mailing list<br>>> <a ymailto="mailto:wplug-board@wplug.org" href="mailto:wplug-board@wplug.org">wplug-board@wplug.org</a><br>>> <a href="http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug-board" target="_blank">http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug-board</a><br>>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> wplug-board mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:wplug-board@wplug.org"
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