David - What DISADVANTAGES have you considered of becoming a nonprofit?
On Tuesday, September 1, 2015, 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] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','coworking%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ------------------ *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* Join the list: http://coworkingweekly.com Listen to the podcast: http://dangerouslyawesome.com/podcast -- 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.
