Mom to four kids - two biological and two adopted from Africa with medical needs. Founder and Director of "from HIV to Home" - working to connect HIV+ orphans with adoptive families.
Jennifer,
I am going to update the post about the Passion Africa get together. We are going to have it at 4pm at the hall where the benefit dinner is. Are you staying for the dinner??
OK, so we have 45 people that are coming to the benefit dinner so far, and 2 are Jeremy and I. If you are available August 9th please consider coming. If you know anyone that lives in the Northern Colorado area please tell them about it.
we are moving the meeting this Friday nite, to the peanut butter house on the lawn of First Presbyterian chupassion africa , we have child care and a great playground for kids next to the buildingrch just off the corner of College and Mulberry. Details are available of main page of passion Africa
Jennifer
let me know how I can help. I work with a tatented group of Dr.s both here, at Mayo Clinic , Institute of Human Virology , at UC Berkely and in Nigeria at Faith Alive Clinic. These committed doctors are on the forefront of fighting the pandemic in Africa. I have passed thru the angry stage, and pissed off many friends, but still have enought fire in my belly to work for change in Africa. I am glad you are here and helping the children of Africa. I will pray for your family and your mission . Gandi said " be the change you wish to see in the world" thanks for being the change and not just talking the change.
with great hope
russ
Jennifer, We have been raising funds while we wait. We are almost finished with a Community Development Center that we raised funds for. We have been told by an IRS agent that we can do this since we are in the process of getting our designation. Our course I wouldn't take my word for this since I am no accountant. Our main need for getting our designation is so that we can apply for grants and approach companies for donation of cash or services.
Our dissolution clause is different than yours of course. My only advice would be that if they give you different wording to put in, put that exact wording in, not one word more, not one word less.
Once they look at your application it moves pretty quickly. They will first look to see if the application is "complete". They will send it back if it is not "complete"(ours was sent back because our dissolution clause was not what they wanted). After it is deemed "complete" they will look at the application and if they have any questions you will get to answer them. This is the stage we are in right now. We just sent the answers to their questions in a couple weeks ago. We hope we are close to the end.
I don't mean to scare you with our sad story. Good luck with your application!
Hi Jennifer- Sorry to barge into your conversation but we have been dealing with the IRS for some time now trying to get our 501 (c)(3) approval. It has been taking at least 3 months to hear back from them. Our longest time period to hear back was 4 1/2 months. They are very backed up and most times don't even look at the application for months.
When you do hear from them and if they have any problems with your dissolution clause let me know. We have, unfortunately, become experts on what the IRS needs to have for the dissolution clause to be correct.
We sent the application just three weeks ago. But I had heard (now I don't even remember where) that the process usually takes 2-3 months on the IRS side. When did your application go in?
I also work for a non-profit. When did you say you applied? I was hoping that we would have it back by now, but the organization that we hired to do the work said that they can't get the information on where it is in the process. Sounds like you are at the same place that we are at.
wow! I am impressed by your bio. I just went to a meeting with World Vision today. There's a huge event (maybe you already know) coming up in October - the HIV/AIDS walk --where you walk through the life an African child thats life has been impacted by AIDS. It will be first in Loveland at Crossroads Church and then at CSU. We will be getting more information out on it soon. I will be a volunteer. Welcome to P.A. Beth
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I am going to update the post about the Passion Africa get together. We are going to have it at 4pm at the hall where the benefit dinner is. Are you staying for the dinner??
let me know how I can help. I work with a tatented group of Dr.s both here, at Mayo Clinic , Institute of Human Virology , at UC Berkely and in Nigeria at Faith Alive Clinic. These committed doctors are on the forefront of fighting the pandemic in Africa. I have passed thru the angry stage, and pissed off many friends, but still have enought fire in my belly to work for change in Africa. I am glad you are here and helping the children of Africa. I will pray for your family and your mission . Gandi said " be the change you wish to see in the world" thanks for being the change and not just talking the change.
with great hope
russ
Our dissolution clause is different than yours of course. My only advice would be that if they give you different wording to put in, put that exact wording in, not one word more, not one word less.
Once they look at your application it moves pretty quickly. They will first look to see if the application is "complete". They will send it back if it is not "complete"(ours was sent back because our dissolution clause was not what they wanted). After it is deemed "complete" they will look at the application and if they have any questions you will get to answer them. This is the stage we are in right now. We just sent the answers to their questions in a couple weeks ago. We hope we are close to the end.
I don't mean to scare you with our sad story. Good luck with your application!
When you do hear from them and if they have any problems with your dissolution clause let me know. We have, unfortunately, become experts on what the IRS needs to have for the dissolution clause to be correct.
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