Our Tax ID number is on our website and has been for some time. We've never come across a problem.
~Perian -----Original Message----- From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Kaia Landon Sent: Thu 7/2/2009 6:52 PM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Tax ID Number Online? Stan, This is becoming increasingly common, and is strongly recommended by many camps, including Guidestar. Basically, it boils down to this: a) the tax ID number is publicly available anyway, so putting it on your website is only making it easier for your patrons to find, not needlessly exposing it to possible phishing scams (for any non-profit, Guidestar will pull this right up) b) making it easily available on your website is the "transparent" thing to do, and can make it easier for would-be donors to find more information about your organization c) some organizations or businesses you might do business with will need it, so this could save them (and you) a phone call. I'm not sure there is a major downside, although we have not done this yet (due to other things we're working on at the moment, not any particular horror at putting it up). Kaia Landon Assistant Director and Curator of Collections Mesa Historical Museum On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Stan Orchard <stanorchard at mac.com> wrote: > I received an email from a recent visitor and thought I'd ask in here > if anyone has done this. S/he was asking if we could publish our tax > ID number because... > > "Flexible Spending Account reimbursement requires us to include in our > paperwork." > > I'd never heard of that before. Have you? This person clearly ID'd so > it wasn't some kind of phishing expedition. Is this common among > museum Web sites? > > ------------------------------------------ > Stan Orchard > Web Publisher > Pacific Science Center - Seattle > http://google.com/profiles/stanorchard > ------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ > _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
