We are indeed planning to rely on tax designation for the purposes of
categorizing hosts. We want to keep it relatively simple. All hosts, for-
and non-profit, are permitted to ask for fee waivers/reductions based on
need.

- Matt

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:41 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.
>
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