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On Thursday 15 July 2004 04:24 pm, Deedra Waters wrote: |
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> How can that 2% thing be handled? We can't tell our users "oh well you |
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> can't donate because if you do, you'll cause us to lose our charitable |
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> status." I don't think that's fare to users to do that...Especially when I |
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> don't concidder gentoo a charity to start with. Freenode's nfp has to tell |
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> some of their contributers that now, and believe me, some of them react |
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> badly to being told that they can't donate. |
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The 501(c)(3) subsidiary would be a seperate entity that your average user |
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could use to donate to on a tax exempt basis. That organization would be a |
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charity in that we would be accepting donations into that organization that |
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would be used to fuel Gentoo development. This works seperate from the |
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Gentoo Foundation 501(c)(6) itself, but would most likely be operated by the |
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same people. It could be used for planned fundraising activities where |
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donation amounts could be more controlled. This can be far down the road, |
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I'm not saying they need to both be filed initially. It would just be |
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another avenue for funding Gentoo development. |
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Cheers, |
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-C |
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Corey Shields - Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields |
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