[nylug-talk] Job Recruiters

[Ron Guerin]

Ruben Safir 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.

I used the wrong words there, it's not membership specifically, it's
public support, that your funding has to come from, and my recollection
is that funds outside that do more harm than good.

I should re-read that stuff myself before we get into this any further,
despite it resulting in a ream of notes and me having a royal headache
the last time.  I'd like to leave it at this, I know that's just way
more aggravation we decided we don't need, and nothing's changed since.

- Ron