MetaTalk

Hi there!

Welcome to this month’s Site Update!

You can find the previous update here.
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posted by loup on Nov 21, 2024 - 356 comments

What would make MetaTalk more useful and effective, in your opinion, in the short term—the next X months until MetaFilter crosses the line into community-run status? Are there specific issues that you have noticed in recent weeks or months that you feel could reasonably be remedied and improve your experience here? [more inside]
posted by cupcakeninja on Nov 15, 2024 - 326 comments

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

Did you know that Metafilter is one of Kiva's biggest-ever lenders? Here's a team update, and a call for you to help the team lend even more. [more inside]
posted by mynameisluka on Jan 14, 2021 - 13 comments

Did you know that Metafilter is one of Kiva's biggest-ever lenders? Here's a team update, and a call for you to help the team lend even more. [more inside]
posted by mynameisluka on Oct 1, 2019 - 16 comments

Very quickly: somewhere back in the megathreads, I remember a bunch of y'all mentioning a group mobilizing to preserve women's access to reproductive healthcare services, including abortion, no matter what happens with the law of the land. [more inside]
posted by adamgreenfield on Jun 28, 2018 - 17 comments

Hey folks, I have a memory of a non-profit that offered small loans (like under $1000) to people to help them get out of trouble. Like, if you are homeless and you have a job but you can't save enough for a security deposit, this group would help you raise the funds so you can get off the street. The funds may have been crowdfunded like Kiva. I'm pretty sure I heard about it on AskMe. Ring any bells for anyone? It's tough to google.
posted by paddingtonb on Nov 3, 2014 - 8 comments