Re: [gentoo-trustees] c3 or c6 status

[Deedra Waters]

Hm, ok, so, if I decide I want to donate a large amount of money on a regular basis, how would you handle that? Especially if it goes over that 2% of the budgit? Would you tell me that I had to donate to the c6 instead of the c3 because I would hurt the status?

I'm not trying to  be picky when I ask theese questions, I just want to know how we intend to handle things like this because sooner or later they will come up. 

I'm also not objecting to seeking a second opinion, I'm just concerned.:)


On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Corey Shields wrote:

> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:42:43 -0500
> From: Corey Shields <cshields@g.o>
> Reply-To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
> To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] c3 or c6 status
>
> On Thursday 15 July 2004 04:24 pm, Deedra Waters wrote:
> > How can that 2% thing be handled? We can't tell our users "oh well you
> > can't donate because if you do, you'll cause us to lose our charitable
> > status." I don't think that's fare to users to do that...Especially when I
> > don't concidder gentoo a charity to start with. Freenode's nfp has to tell
> > some of their contributers that now, and believe me, some of them react
> > badly to being told that they can't donate.
>
> The 501(c)(3) subsidiary would be a seperate entity that your average user
> could use to donate to on a tax exempt basis.  That organization would be a
> charity in that we would be accepting donations into that organization that
> would be used to fuel Gentoo development.  This works seperate from the
> Gentoo Foundation 501(c)(6) itself, but would most likely be operated by the
> same people.  It could be used for planned fundraising activities where
> donation amounts could be more controlled.  This can be far down the road,
> I'm not saying they need to both be filed initially.  It would just be
> another avenue for funding Gentoo development.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -C
>
>

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