[Board] IRS 501c3 response

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Daniel,

I've looked at the draft; Dec 3rd is tight, we'll need all directors and
committees to help out.  No choice.

-jeff



On 12-11-29 1:53 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Board,
> 
> It's time to work on the response to the IRS with respect to the 501c3
> application questions that we received in September.
> 
> I spoke with our attorney last week to discuss our strategy which he
> agrees with, and I started working on the answers based on our decision
> at the last board meeing to drop the Project Sponsorship program and aim
> for a pure 501c3.
> 
> The list of questions and draft asnwers is at:
> 
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/501c3_Application:_Questions_from_IRS,_September_2012
> 
> 
> My plan is to fill this wiki page with factual answers, and then David
> Atkin, out attorney will take the info that we provide and turn that
> into a response that the IRS will undertand (using the lingo that they
> want to read).
> 
> We have until December 10 to provide our final response, but David Atkin
> will need some time as well, so ideally we should aim to get all our
> draft answers in place by Monday (Dec 3) to leave him a week to complete
> his response to the IRS on our behalf.
> 
> I will need help from the Education committee members on several
> questions. If any member of the Edu committee is reading this please go
> ahead and chime in now, otherwise I will reach out to the Edu list if I
> don't hear from anyone (I am not currently subscribed on the Edu list).
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help
> 
> Daniel