01 NOV 2019 // By: Talalima Mobley.
Listen, this experience for filling out the IRS 1023 form to request a 501(c)(3) status was beyond confusing and I felt like most of the questions they asked were meant to trick or trip-up any person that’s forming a charity and to reveal true motives of the mission. There were times when completing the form we wanted to give-up and just pay for a professional to assist with answering the questions — as most Zillennials tend to do — but we pushed through and genuinely wanted to learn to become more experienced in these procedures. And if a packet was going to be the biggest hurdle then perhaps it was a test to see how important establishing this organisation really meant to us.
It took talking to two separate lawyers to finalise the packet and we made sure the information provided on the form was clear and didn’t blur the lines to seem like we were conducting a half-ass organisation.
Personally, I’m not great with numbers so the mathematical equations in good faith took me back to the anxiety in grade school answering the unrealistic “if Sofia had 30 mangos…” word-problems. Thankfully, I have an amazing team that isn’t afraid of algebra or geometry - whatever but they were so good in calming my nerves and getting this settled. With that, I am beyond grateful to them and cannot wait to get an official accountant to work these numbers for us because frankly I’m not the best one to do it.
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