Love it 
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i farted wrong thread
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No! We will worship Treesus! He sheds his leaves for us!
I’ve spent entirely too much time and thought into putting together a new religion, and Treesus is the way…
Edit: And the 12 tribes of Treesus include spore bearing fruits!
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We can just do what the Ethiopian Zion Coptic church did in the late 70s and early 80s… they worshiped weed. Maybe we can get away with it in today age if we don’t have children smoking cannabis on 60 minutes.
If we do it in Florida. Our state Supreme Court has seen a case like this before. 
. I’m only joking about it in FL
Only in Florida could this be true! Lol
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Thank God I made it home, and it was all for weed!
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A community focus non-profit should be 100% volunteer managed. Service to the Community and Education is a great start. Service to the Community is a very broad term.
From a structural perspective, you can have a Board and the Executive Team. The Board deals more with vision, goals and organization priorities. The executive team is the group that makes things happen. As the organization starts, I suggest having a working board. The following needs to be identified:
- President
- Secretary
- Treasurer
This is the bare bone non-profit team. Officers should not be related.
I will post a sample by-laws and you can make it it your need.
Organization name: Finding Futures is a great name.
For website hosting, I am willing to donate hosting space for you. I have a web hosting package from HostGator which allows me to create numerous web hosting account.
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I’ve got my ONAC Card on me at all times. Never been pulled nock on wood.
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you can def get away with it, clubs in cali still operating under the protections granted by this case.
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I’d like to see an organization for consumer advocacy. It’d be great to get the medical community involved with the people on the ground level to understand products that are being made and potential dangers and issues
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Haha!!! The Coptic church. My Dad was looking at land near some of those folks in Jamaica, nuff said. Crazy times. They had there little kids ripping fatties.
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Hey @sidco. It would be nice if you could pin the forum fundraisers at least while they are going until we can figure this out. It would make it so we don’t have to bump all the time
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A few things to remember…
A 501c3 executive director can’t also be on the board of directors.
At minimum you need president and treasurer.
There are different types of 501c’s available.
Will the entity pay lobbyists or contribute to campaign funds?
Would a SuperPAC be more applicable?
Is the expected annual budget >$25,000?
What services would you like to offer?
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I think we covered alot of the things that we would hope to accomplish further up in the thread. There just seems to be so many directions that we can go with this thing. Honestly, we might have to start 2 to accomplish everything that we would like to accomplish. 1 of the nonprofits could be specific for giving back. Like doing the fundraisers that we are doing now. And then have a second that we (whomever) could use for furthering education, testing, and hopefully be able to spread the word and the love. Just a thought
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Define testing. IMO the best setup for that would be a co-op.
That’s minutia that will have to spelled out in the by laws. Maybe expanding testing, or better more consistent testing. Shit testing doesn’t even have to have anything to do with it. That was something that was listed further up thread. There many other examples I just don’t remember them right off hand.
Personally, I want to be involved in the charity that gives back. I want to be involved in the process of helping others. Take donations, and turn them right back around in the form of fundraisers just like we’re doing now. We have some many people that just need that little bit of help in order to be able to get to where they want to go. Very much like the process that helped me, and @StoneD . That’s ultimately not that difficult because it’s pretty simple. No one will get paid, it will be strictly volunteer. I don’t know. I just want people to experience the love and support that I did.
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We can’t get too bogged down in beginning. It needs to be simple at first and strategically built from there. The premise in my mind is an organized cannabis community working together to raise resources to be distributed wisely to individuals or existing non profits. I guess that’s kind of obvious. We all have outstanding individual resources, capital being one, but also industry connections, existing relationships, and years of experience as a whole.
Getting organized and staying on task is the tough part. I think, ideally we need at least 1 fulltime person dedicated to the program. Which will require compensation, so we can hold this person accountable for job responsibilities and to procure a qualified individual. We can all donate our time and energy too.
We should probably organize a conference call too more efficiently outline our prerogatives.
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So I was following the things on this page when I working on laying out my nonprofit. I feel it has a pretty good blueprint, and lays out all of the forms, how to fill them out, and where to send them. This is doing everything yourself instead of paying 1K for a company to do it for you. You only have to pay the fees that are associated with the forms you are turning in.
Anyway, I don’t know if this is a good idea or not and is the reason why I’m putting it up.
Sample Nonprofit Articles of Incorporation Template for 501c3 (form1023.org)
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$35 for all templates isn’t terrible.
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Again, I’m really not interested in this being directly tied to the forum. I can already see it now, people will be angry at me because a NFP with “Future” in the name, that was born of this forum, gave money to some person who did something dumb somewhere one time. Or the money should have gone to someone else. Or any one of the 100s of things people will bitch at me for even though I had zero to do with any of it.
Overall, I think it’s a pretty slick idea. The stoneD thing worked out well, we could probably keep it rolling, but this time our contributions would be tax defductible and that’s pretty sweet.
My accountant is investigating the potential of switching the GLG over to a Fraternal Order NFP, but it is probably not close enough aligned to our model to work.
Also, the GLG does not fund the forum hosting, I think I covered the first year and I’m pretty sure @sidco has been covering it since. Or something close to that. I think it’s less than $100/year and I put 10m satoshi in a cold walet as insurance for either desperation payment, but more likely to fund the potential of decentralizing the hosting via an emerging blockchain technology.
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Agreed. Can confirm.
If there was a cool way to decentralize the forum I would do it. If anyone has any idea I am down. There are other services like Freenet, but its not ‘user friendly’
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