James, you sell/offer some sort of fiscal sponsorship solution, please tell me why a c3 is more appropriate than a c6? You didn't identify your group so I can't go see what you offer.
We don't need "to become whatever we want, whenever we want". Rather get it right the first time and move on. We have several companies that want to be our fiscal sponsor and are in no rush to have to deal with more moving parts and more friction. We're not concerned about spreadsheets or documentation, accountability is not a problem as we do this sort of financial reporting often in other spheres of business. It appears that c6 makes more sense give the typical coworking space mission statement. Do you offer this type of fiscal sponsorship? If not, why not? Is c3 the perfect solution for coworking and no need for c6 or any of the other 25+ non-profit designations? Surprised there isn't more conversation around different types of non-profit coworking spaces. Everyone assumes a c3 is the way to go and that clearly isn't the case any longer. Especially when you realize that a lot of c3's pay taxes. depending on circumstance of course. And then we have L3C's as well. Dave Evans Coworking is coming to Brattleboro - coworkingplus.net Digicraft.com 617-939-7916 https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidevans On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 6:02 PM, James S. Carlson <[email protected]> wrote: > Why a C6? Not a C3? > > We're a group that provides fiscal sponsorship for non-profit spaces, so you > can 'become' whatever you want, whenever you want later. > > James Carlson > 414-215-0215 > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 4:54 PM, David Evans <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. > > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/kdIp79rLSAM/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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.
