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As of November 1, 2024 (it took some time for the notice to arrive), the Metafilter Community Foundation exists as an officially registered Delaware nonprofit non-stock corporation.

What this means:
1. We can now get an EIN, apply for a bank account, and apply to the IRS for not-for-profit designation.
2. The interim board of directors can get to work. We will have to adopt bylaws, approve (with community input) a policy and procedures manual, obtain insurance, and transfer the existing LLC and its assets into the new entity, among many other tasks.

We have a lot of work ahead. [more inside]
posted by 1adam12 on Nov 8, 2024 - 54 comments

The board forming the nonprofit for Metafilter met Feb. 15. [more inside]
posted by apartment dweller on Feb 28, 2024 - 15 comments

Now that we have formed an interim board to become a MeFi nonprofit, we can move on to a few next items. [more inside]
posted by NotLost on Oct 30, 2023 - 116 comments

Thanks for your patience as I have worked through talking with lawyers who talk with their experts. This is a substantive update with some news and some questions for the community. The short form is: everyone on the team of people I spoke with agrees that MeFi could potentially be a non-profit organization (with the ultimate determination being made by the IRS). Now we need to decide how to move forward and make MeFi into a community-run organization. I'll give some backstory and a "where we are with this" situation inside. [more inside]
posted by jessamyn on Oct 3, 2023 - 181 comments