[school-discuss] 501(c)(3) completed

["tompoe@renonevada.net" <tompoe@renonevada.net>]

Hi:  Wanted to let your list members know, we have successfully 
completed the Internal Revenue Service application for tax-exempt 
status.  That's a really good thing.  :)

I've put all but the last three or four documents for our application 
correspondence over the last 10 months [yes, it took 10 months, but 
we're there] up on the web for your review.  It's a mess, until we get a 
historian volunteer to go in and sort and add descriptions for you.
http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/irs/

We're going to pick up the pace, shortly, with our first project, to 
outline a recommendation for a starter recording studio in-a-box.  We'll 
provide the specs, provide free CD's [this will have a modest shipping 
cost], and work with community volunteers, groups, that want to set up 
and start operations as a community-based recording studio.  The 
up-front cost, now, is down to whatever PC setup needed [it's possible 
to get all the hardware donated] might be, and then just insert the CD, 
follow directions, and start recording.

Once we're feeling good about this, I'll come back, and we'll then see 
what needs to happen to make our work mesh with schoolforge's ISO.  This 
will be exciting, I think.

Any questions, comments, suggestions, welcome.  And, if you're ready to 
volunteer to coordinate stuff in your community, let me know.
Thanks,
Tom Poe
Open Studios
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