On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Ethan White <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/31/2015 03:36 PM, Erik Bray wrote: >> >> One thing I'm wondering is, under this program, how a "for-profit >> corporation" is defined. I have absolutely no clue about corporate >> law so maybe this is very simple. However, I for one would consider >> something like Johns Hopkins University a for-profit corporation (no >> matter how it presents itself otherwise). Or Harvard for that matter. >> At the same time, I don't feel that way necessarily if an individual >> department in the university with a limited training budget is the >> host. So, I'm a little confused. But maybe that's just me. >> > I think the best way to handle this is to rely on the official tax status of > the organization in the organizations home country. So, in the US, they > would need to be a 501(c) organization > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29_organization (typically 501(c)(3)), > which almost all universities are.
I was thinking there was probably some tax designation that could be relied on to make that determination. Though that might be overly broad in some cases, and at the same time overly narrow in others :/ Erik _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
