[Noisebridge-discuss] Hacker Dojo / NB reciprocal membership WAS: Hacker Dojo up and running, and in the mainstream news

[David Molnar]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Christie Dudley <longobord at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've heard some suggestion that the Dojo was intended to be a
> for-profit operation, which would also get into some complicated
> 501(c)(3) legal mumbo-jumbo if we were to mix too much resource-wise
> with them.  Then you get into the sticky business of "benefits of
> membership" and concerns over people just getting a NB membership for
> the benefit of the Dojo access, etc. etc.

The Dojo is a non-profit corporation, but they are under 501(c)(6) tax
status instead of 501(c)(3). This is the tax status for things like
chambers of commerce -- they don't pay taxes, but contributions to
them are not tax deductible either. For what it's worth.

David Molnar