[Board] Budget Item - US Nonprofit Status

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Brian,

I'm very open to this plan, and I have followed your discussions with
that Center, they seem very experienced in this.  Can you give me a
ballpark number for the upper-limit amount?

-jeff



On 1/14/2014, 3:58 PM, Brian Hamlin wrote:
> Members of the Board, All -
> 
>   you may recall that the US Nonprofit status has unresolved aspects,
> and the story is not yet stabilized, generally.
> Through the San Francisco Foundation Center, I had found and contacted
> an attorney in applicable practice.
> 
> (generally it is my idea that Internet/FOSS nonprofits could benefit a
> lot from learning the ways of previous,
> successful and stable US nonprofits from earlier eras)
> 
>   I ask the Board to approve some very modest "not to exceed" budget
> item, to pay this attorney to review the documents to date.
> 
>  I have no previous relationship with him, and found him based on best
> available information at the time (Summer 2013)
> I trust that Mr Kalish is able and willing to do such work, if the Board
> decides to approve of this expenditure.
> 
> 
>   Richard Kalish
>   Kalish Nexon LLP
>   995 5th Ave, Suite 320
>   San Rafael, CA  94901
> 
>