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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