We are starting a rural southern Vermont coworking space in a town called Brattleboro with 12,000 people and six colleges in the area.
Our lawyer has recommended that we become a 501(c)(6) organization. Much of the relevant information I've seen here is from 2010- 2012. We're looking for more recent feedback. We feel like a non-profit makes the most business and social sense and is the best solution because: The founding group isn't doing this for immediate profit. We all have startup consulting gigs or Economic development-related jobs. Our core team will be replaced after a year. Expenses similar to profit projections. Corporate sponsors will help with rent and other things like printer stations. Individual donors can donate via local college to realize donation write-off benefits. We have access to some grant money as well (local nuke plant closed, area receives $2M/year for five years to ease burden of so many people and so much money leaving town). We're open to other options of course but before we spend $1,000 to become official and start taking pre-memberships, I want to make sure we're on the right track. Thanks for your feedback. -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
