[Alumni-chat] 501(c)3

[Sistersara at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/12/2007 11:13:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
sercle at sbcglobal.net writes:

I helped  start a nonprofit and got a contract with the city of San Francisco
while  we were waiting for the IRS provisional ruling, which eventually came.
My  experience was in 1977, so things may be different now, but I would put
my  money on it still operating in the same way. Otherwise people would  be
running nonprofits for years without having donors or contracts, which  they
don't.

Barrie Dallas Grenell  '65




Barrie, my experience was in the 1990's with AIDS service  organizations.  So 
many were just standing in line waiting on IRS and all,  so I talked with the 
case worker that Paul Wellstone hired, and within a month I  had them all 
properly certified.  Problem is if you want to raise large  donations, 
particularly from foundations.  You need to have the  approval.  If a Senator says he 
wants to support the effort of the Alumni  Board to re-establish Antioch -- then 
one thing he can do at no cost is to walk  the 501 approval through.  And he 
doesn't do it, a Freshman Senator has at  least 45 staffers, and some of them 
do case work.  



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