On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Ralph Zeller wrote: > EFN is a "business"?? I thought it was a non-profit organization. I'm > not knocking efn, I think efn provides a great service to the community. >
I'll tackle this one, EFN is a not-for-profit business that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oregon Public Networking which is a 501c3 charitable organization. This was forced on us as a result of the IRS administrative ruling on the status of EFN. This forces us into some strange contortions, and extra paperwork, but means that efn can provide internet service and charge market rates for it. And be subsidized by OPN to provide low-cost and free internet service to people who meet certain low-income guidelines. So yes, efn is a business, it just happens to be one that is chartered primarily to provide a public service rather than to make large piles of money, and any profit that is not spent on operations belongs to OPN which _is_ a non-profit. I'd like to thank, Mark Bigler, Dexter Graphic, Dan Robinson and Jason Dommasch for coming in this afternoon and doing yet another reorganization of the 'junque' so that the OPN area will be cleared up and ready for the CTC program to get under way. This is the area where EUGLUG will be holding it's meetings. > At 01:02 PM 3/23/02 Seth Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >efn's price is slightly higher I believe, but you > >are supporting local business, getting much > >better service, and making me happy. Call efn > >for more details: http://www.efn.org 484-9637 > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
