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When will elections for permanent board members for the MetaFilter Community Foundation take place? [more inside]
posted by ssg on Mar 1, 2025 - 29 comments

Hello and welcome to the first Site Update of 2025!

You can find the last update here.
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posted by Brandon Blatcher on Jan 22, 2025 - 122 comments

Hello and welcome to this month’s Site Update! We your things are going your way as the year winds down.

You can find the last update here.
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posted by Brandon Blatcher on Dec 20, 2024 - 454 comments

We have an EIN and have submitted a bank account application. The next task on our list is to complete and submit an IRS Form 1023 to receive not-for-profit status. We have two options. [more inside]
posted by 1adam12 on Nov 20, 2024 - 154 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

A few updates about the MetaFilter Community Foundation [more inside]
posted by Gorgik on Oct 15, 2024 - 45 comments

An overdue update about the transition to a non-profit. [more inside]
posted by Gorgik on Aug 19, 2024 - 44 comments

We had a proper update post lined up on the interim board, but things are super busy right now as we have crunched up our timeline and gotten masses of work done, so I wanted to pop by and unofficially say hello! I'm dotisunderwood and the current and soon to be last interim board chair. We have a meeting in a couple of days to be followed (thanks to a bunch of great volunteers) by an update, so any questions you'd like us to try to answer as well in the upcoming Official Update Post, please add below or memail me. (My household just welcomed an unexpectedly early baby, so I am behind on emails, punctuation and sleep so please be patient)
posted by dorothyisunderwood on Jun 19, 2024 - 10 comments

The board setting up the MeFi nonprofit met on April 4 and April 25. [more inside]
posted by NotLost on May 1, 2024 - 32 comments

The group working to form the MeFi nonprofit is looking for help in a few specific areas. [more inside]
posted by NotLost on Mar 11, 2024 - 7 comments

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

The board forming the nonprofit for Metafilter met Feb. 1. [more inside]
posted by NotLost on Feb 19, 2024 - 20 comments

The board forming the nonprofit for Metafilter met Jan. 18. [more inside]
posted by NotLost on Jan 30, 2024 - 17 comments

The MeFi interim board met Jan. 3. [more inside]
posted by NotLost on Jan 11, 2024 - 14 comments

The group planning the transition to make MetaFilter a nonprofit held its first meeting Nov. 15. This is a brief update to keep you all up to date with the progress made. [more inside]
posted by rebent on Nov 20, 2023 - 22 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

Hi folks -- here's a thread to talk about constructive next steps after this thread from two weeks ago. [more inside]
posted by jessamyn on Oct 18, 2023 - 122 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 - 179 comments