[Community_garden] Non-profit status and Tax IDs

[David King]

Find a sympathetic local, larger non-profit.  They can
be a 'fiscal sponsor' for you.  

--- jana remy <remyj at uci.edu> wrote:

> I'm the Treasurer for a small community garden
> that's been around for about
> 20 years.  Recently, we've been trying to solicit
> donations for various
> items that we need, and we've discovered this to be
> very difficult because
> we aren't officially registered as a non-profit
> organization and we don't
> have a Tax ID #.
>  
> >From what I can tell, garnering non-profit status
> seems time-consuming and
> expensive, so I'm just not sure this is an option
> for our little group.


David King, Garden Master
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 A garden, where one may enter in and forget the whole world, 
 cannot be made in a week, nor a month, nor a year; it must
 be planned for, waited for and loved into being.

 Chinese Proverb