I like both these suggestions a lot. I just wonder if anyone can chime in if the CH Team might struggle to get NGO status without being part of CEA. I wonder what their altruistic mission statement would be summarized as?
Perhaps this is a silly question and NGO status is easier to get than I think.
The US at least is not too rigorous on the ends that a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit can pursue. To give you a sense of that: the National Football League used to be a 501(c) tax-exempt non-profit, albeit under 501(c)(6), until there was enough public outcry.
EVF’s existing charitable purpose would presumably work for community health, maybe with some mild tweaks. It’s not always correct to assume that a non-profit that runs programs A, B, C, and D could spin any of them off into their own non-profits. But it’s generally so—if A, B, C, and D weren’t being run for a permissible tax-exempt charitable purpose, then the existing nonprofit probably had no legal basis to run them.
I don’t see any red flags for community health as a standalone entity. By red flags, I mean things that would be a problem if they constituted more than a minimal fraction of a non-profit’s overall activities (like political lobbying), things that benefitted a very small number of people, or things that heavily benefitted corporate insiders, etc.
I like both these suggestions a lot. I just wonder if anyone can chime in if the CH Team might struggle to get NGO status without being part of CEA. I wonder what their altruistic mission statement would be summarized as?
Perhaps this is a silly question and NGO status is easier to get than I think.
The US at least is not too rigorous on the ends that a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit can pursue. To give you a sense of that: the National Football League used to be a 501(c) tax-exempt non-profit, albeit under 501(c)(6), until there was enough public outcry.
EVF’s existing charitable purpose would presumably work for community health, maybe with some mild tweaks. It’s not always correct to assume that a non-profit that runs programs A, B, C, and D could spin any of them off into their own non-profits. But it’s generally so—if A, B, C, and D weren’t being run for a permissible tax-exempt charitable purpose, then the existing nonprofit probably had no legal basis to run them.
I don’t see any red flags for community health as a standalone entity. By red flags, I mean things that would be a problem if they constituted more than a minimal fraction of a non-profit’s overall activities (like political lobbying), things that benefitted a very small number of people, or things that heavily benefitted corporate insiders, etc.