[nylug-talk] Job Recruiters

[Ruben Safir]

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 08:02:20PM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
> Ruben Safir wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 07:43:20PM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
> 
> >> As for taking money from recruiters... if you ask me, that's setting
> >> yourself up for all kinds of trouble, moreso for you I'd think since it
> >> would complicate your not-for-profit status.
> >> 
> > Its completely within the rights of the organization which has a labor resource
> > to get money for advertizing from a recruiter.  In fact, there aren't many ways
> > of getting money for a non-profit which is imoral or illegal.  There are, however,
> > tons of way in which how one spends the non-profits moneys you can get into ugly
> > moral issues and legal ones.
> > 
> > NYLXS's clear and precise charter and explicitly spelled our responsibilities and accounting 
> > practices leaves us way above board.
> 
> It's not your charter that's the issue, it's the tax laws, which require
> you to get most of your money from your membership.
> 

We can get funds from anywhere but we need to show that we get substantial
public support ie: Public Donations

Membership funding is actually looked down on by the IRS.

Ruben


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