On the note of moving forward I just wanted to comment on the process James and the steering committee outlined on Nov 30.
I would strongly suggest that 2(a) and (b) below be interchanged and not done concurrently. There's a couple of reasons for this: 1) Any WMF amendments can be easily done to the bylaws without involving the CRA; 2) The charitable application is going to take 9 months at least. This is coming out of a number of conversations I've had last week with the Charities Directorate for another non-profit I'm trying very hard to get charitable status for; and 3) The CRA is much more amenable to non-profits that have existing agreements with other organizations (preferably qualified charities from Canada but foreign NGO-type entities will work as well). A chapter agreement would definitely help in this regard. Regards, Jit On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:32 AM, James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > With respect to the submitted documents of incorporation, they are not > written in stone. Amendments can be filled at any time and may need to > be filled a couple of times to get wording that the Canada Revenue > Agency is willing to except as charitable. > > The process is: > 1) Incorporate as a non profit > 2a) Submit application for charity status to Canadian Revue Agency > 2b) Apply to the chapters committee to be recognized as an official chapter > 3) If we wish to use ca.wikimedia.org this would be the time when we > would get the domain I assume. > > -- > James Heilman > MD, CCFP-EM, B.Sc. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-ca mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-ca >
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