Re: [PLUG] Would possibly like to donate hardware: laptops, old monitor,

Michael Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com> · 30 Jan 2002 18:30:43 -0500

On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 03:56, Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> On 01/29, root@physiometrics.net wrote:
> > be if my company's Finance dept. doesn't go for it.  Are donations Linux
> > Users' Groups tax-deductible?  If they are, then i am almost certain that
> > there would be no objection from the company brass.  I look forward to your
> 
> It might be, if the LUG is legally registered as a non-profit organization
> or something.  Unfortunately, PLUG isn't.  
> 
> I believe that someone once suggested that PLUG do a fund-raiser and donate
> the money to a worthy cause of our choice, officially from PLUG, as a
> non-profit.  I believe they said this would cause PLUG to officially be
> recognized as a non profit organization.  But this hasn't happened.  PLUG
> has been rather chaotic, as far as I can tell, since its inception.

Politely phrased. :-) It might be nice for PLUG to be an official
non-profit, but honestly ... what would that gain us? We never do
anything as a group. We talk about it, but nothing ever comes of it.

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