Providing Lesotho's Children with Keys to the World

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Friday, November 6, 2009

Forming our nonprofit organization: Laptops to Lesotho

We asked our friends for suggestions, and now we have a name for our nonprofit, Laptops to Lesotho (Inc.), the organization we'll use to raise additional funds for our OLPCorps Africa project. I've got our EIN number from the IRS, and I've written the mission statement, by-laws, and articles of incorporation.

I still need to recruit and confirm board members, then I'll be ready to submit it to the Secretary of the State of Idaho for incorporation. Once that's done, we'll register as a nonprofit with the IRS.

If we're lucky, all these legal steps will be done before Christmas, and we can start collecting donations during the giving season.
Posted by Janissa

1 comment:

  1. JanissaFriday, December 25, 2009

    It's Christmas, and we are officially incorporated, but it will probably be at least another month before we get our nonprofit status. This took much longer than expected. Janissa

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