[Community_garden] Non-profit status and Tax IDs

[tonaj at mindspring.com]

Another idea for this is if you have a college near by that offers a Non-Profit Management degree.  See if a student or class will do it as a class project. I know that my husband did one when he was in  grad school.

Tonya Nicholie 


-----Original Message-----
>From: Dorene Pasekoff <garlicgrower at green-logic.com>
>Sent: Mar 12, 2007 10:55 AM
>To: remyj at uci.edu, community_garden at list.communitygarden.org
>Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Non-profit status and Tax IDs
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>Jana wrote:
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><<Does anyone out there have experience with the non-profit process and can
>you give advice on how difficult and expensive it is?  Or is there some
>other way to go about receiving donations without needing a Tax ID#? >>
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>For the community garden, we use the church's non-profit status.  For the
>dog park, I did the 501c3 paperwork myself.  If you do it yourself, buy this
>book:
>
>How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation
>by Attorney Anthony Mancuso 
>Order online www.nolo.com or call 1-800-728-3555
>Pub. Date: Jun 2005
>Edition: 7th
>Pages: 432 pp
>ISBN: 9781413303483     
>Book w/CDROM 
>Paperback book with Forms CD. 
>List Price: $49.9 
>
>There is a separate book for California.  If you follow the book and don't
>try to re-invent the wheel, it is not that bad.  Even better, when "stuff"
>comes up with your non-profit organization, you know most of the legal stuff
>you really need to know -- so it is WELL worth the time and effort spent.
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>The Friends of Reservoir Dogs! Park got their preliminary 501c3 ruling in 6
>weeks -- which means I must have done it right.  Buy the book -- it's a
>tax-deductible expense once your non-profit is going and it is well worth
>the time and effort.
>
>Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
>St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden and Labyrinth
>
>A mission of 
>St. John's United Church of Christ, 315 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA  19460
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