<html><body>That is incorrect. Again, people are mixing up 501 c 3 status and employee identification numbers. They are two totally different things. We do want separate EINs but we do not want separate 501 c 3 status for our divisions or chapters. Once you are a 501 c 3 there are all kinds of government requirements including the filing of 990s. If anyone has specific questions please call me. We do not want to confuse people on this list. <BR>
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I fear that this list conversation is going to cause more questions than answer questions. This stuff gets complicated and confusing andit would be best if I could walk people through it as they have specific inquiries. <BR>
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From: Cash-and-Caring [mailto:cash-and-caring-bounces@nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dacia Cole via Cash-and-Caring<BR>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2017 8:33 AM<BR>
To: Fund-raising assistance for Chapters and Affiliates<BR>
Cc: Dacia Cole<BR>
Subject: Re: [Cash-and-caring] Question about fundraising when your division doesn't have a 501(C3) tax letter?<BR>
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Well something I'm not sure I mentioned, but I'm asking these questions on behalf of a national division not one for a specific state.<BR>
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Dacia<BR>
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On 3/9/17, Everett Gavel via Cash-and-Caring <cash-and-caring@nfbnet.org> wrote:<BR>
> Hi Bridgit, and All<BR>
><BR>
> My memory is about as good as my eyesight these days, so please <BR>
> forgive me if I’m wrong here. But it seems to me that back around the <BR>
> turn of the millennium, give or take a couple of years, Peggy Elliott <BR>
> was giving a nationwide push, encouraging chapters to get their own <BR>
> nonprofit numbers, i.e., 501(c)(3)s -- and to try to stop using the <BR>
> affiliates. I’m sure someone here can clarify. But the chapter I was <BR>
> with in Ohio back then, we got our own at that point.<BR>
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> Strive On!<BR>
> Everett<BR>
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> From: Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter <bkpollpeter@gmail.com><BR>
> Subject: Re: [Cash-and-caring] Question about fundraising when your <BR>
> division doesn't have a 501(C3) tax letter?<BR>
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> Does this mean my chapter should apply for our own 501 C3 nonprofit status?<BR>
> Our affiliate went through this a few years back, and chapter’s and <BR>
> state division’s were told we could just use the affiliate’s status.<BR>
> Bridgit<BR>
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> ----- original message -----<BR>
> The government frown upon sharing of EIN numbers. Please give me a <BR>
> call at<BR>
> 773 307 6440.<BR>
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