The main reason I bring it up is since I'm working with my kids school - http://www.hudsonvalleyschool.org[they are a non profit... profit, HAH, we're lucky not to have a deficet! ] and integrating some services with Joomla for them.
For example, Google will provide non profits with free use of their Google apps - which includes the API. One of those apps is email, so you can give people the same function of gmail but with your own domain[so you can have members.mydomain.com and board.mydomain.com and give people addresses in there as appropriate]. Google actually provides that for free anyway to small groups, but then you have to use their fitzy interface to add/remove accounts/addresses. With the API, I am going to setup a plugin for Community builder, so we can have a "user type" field of checkboxes, with "member", "staff", and "student" as checkboxes[ie a member can also be staff]. When the user is saved, a little program can check for which of those fields are active and go create/remove gmail email accounts for that person in the appropriate domains. That way they don't need to learn an interface, they can just click a checkbox and be done. But the first step for other groups for something like this would be registration....and for that someone has to be willing to volunteer their unpaid time to work on both determining what ongoing time commitments are required, but what initial time and money requirements are needed. As a relative outsider who comes in at most once a month, somewhat hypocritically I'm not volunteering my time(outside of saying if you do do the paperwork, I can certainly do the google app signup and give you the code to integrate when I'm finished at the school), just throwing the idea out there. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Paul Guba <p...@gubavision.com> wrote: > I am actually a trustee for a non profit group. Registration is the > hardest part and really requires a lawyer. However there are some > responsibilities as you are basically forming a corporation. There are > officers and boards. They have legal responsibilities. Filing is less > complicated if your gross donations are less the $25000 per year probably > your case. Book keeping is no more complicated than any other business good > accounting principles apply most every where. Google Pro bono partnership it > is a good place to seek representation for non profits, also google legal > responsibilities of non profit trustees. It is not a simple process and > you'll need to consider if it is something worth while for your group to do. > > > Paul Guba > p...@gubavision.com > > > > > On Nov 20, 2009, at 7:04 PM, Leam Hall wrote: > > I think the legalities are there and solid. However, bookkeeping is >> supposedly to be unholy. Also, you don't do the forms right it's $1,000 per >> day until they're done right. UGH! >> >> Leam >> >> Scott Wolpow wrote: >> >>> No we are an association. >>> Our next step may be a type of non-profit. >>> The hardest type is IRS approved NP. >>> SW >>> On 11/20/2009 6:41 PM, Gary Mort wrote: >>> >>>> Just curious, is the NYC group a registered non profit? Is that >>>> something that is too much of a pain to setup? >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List >>>> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla >>>> >>>> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >>>> http://www.nyphpcon.com >>>> >>>> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >>>> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla >> >> NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online >> http://www.nyphpcon.com >> >> Show Your Participation in New York PHP >> http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >> > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP SIG: Joomla! Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/joomla > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php >
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