[nylug-talk] Job Recruiters

[Gregg Levine]

On 3/1/07, Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Hello!
I'm not even going to venture a guess as to where Ruben is going with
this. However I do know one thing: Why haven't the Feds complained
about the PACs and the political parties? Especially those.
-- 
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
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