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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: emacs-tangents@gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Subject: Leaving Freenode behind
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:26:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-c187ebb7-4ad6-4842-895b-affdd1d82f66-1624490814844@3c-app-mailcom-bs14> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YNOhiNEeZgwifKDW@protected.localdomain>

> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 9:03 AM
> From: "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "Stefan Kangas" <stefan@marxist.se>, emacs-tangents@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Leaving Freenode behind
>
> * Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> [2021-06-23 23:13]:
> > You are correct.  It is not about non-profits disliking business.
> > It is about those people who only value non-profit.
> 
> I don't know such people. 

We have different experiences.
 
> What I know from experience is that non-profit organizations always
> work hand in hand with profit organizations. Especially for the reason
> that money usually comes from one to other and each party
> benefits. Non-profit gets the money or other values and profit one
> gets tax deductions. That is how it is in Germany and US and other
> countries. Condition is that non-profit is recognized by tax
> authorities as having public interest.

That's how things should be.  I am not interested in non-profit myself.
 
> > It’s not hard to start a nonprofit. The barriers to entry is pretty
> > low.  It costs a few hundred dollars and a few hours. But then what?
> > Running a nonprofit and growing it to a size where it can effectively
> > serve something takes resources. 
> 
> Of course, I should know that as being a corporate service provider
> for last 19 years. Though in Germay it is considerably harder, but we
> do it even remotely. They use the middle ages notary system with few
> other countries in Europe.

Never worked seriously is Germany myself.
 
> If anybody considers donating to non-profit one should consider maybe
> doing a direct contribution to social aspect. Often it will be more
> valuable.
> 
> There are those which distribute majority of values for non-profit
> purposes:
> https://www.marketwatch.com/story/20-incredible-charities-that-give-99-of-the-money-they-get-to-the-actual-cause-2017-12-28
> 
> Then there are those which distribute just 30% - 40% for non-profit
> purposes:
> https://moneyinc.com/worst-charities-you-shouldnt-be-donating-to/
> 
> So that is what I tell you, while non-profit is designated
> "non-profit" in many sectors of its activities they may be actually
> profit organization. IRS would ask for taxes for any activity that is
> not charity activity. For any income to its directors beyond or within
> charity activities they anyway have to pay taxes. You see? It is just
> that purpose is different. Profits are there. When we say "non-profit"
> it only points out to structure of the organization, to its main
> purposes. But profits are there and should be, that is in other
> context. Charity has to make money somehow. 

Hat off to that.
 
> -- 
> Jean
> 
> Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns:
> https://www.fsf.org/campaigns
> 
> In support of Richard M. Stallman
> https://stallmansupport.org/
>



  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-23 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-21 20:24 Leaving Freenode behind Stefan Kangas
2021-06-21 20:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-04  5:27   ` Amin Bandali
2021-06-21 23:38 ` Jean Louis
2021-06-22  0:06 ` Richard Stallman
2021-06-22  4:35   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-06-22  6:39     ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-22 20:48       ` Jean Louis
2021-06-22 21:09         ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-23  5:28           ` Jean Louis
2021-06-23 20:13             ` Christopher Dimech
2021-06-23 21:03               ` Jean Louis
2021-06-23 23:26                 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2021-06-24  5:12                   ` Jean Louis
2021-06-22 20:43     ` Jean Louis
2021-06-24  0:53     ` Richard Stallman

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