[CIMC-work] screeningand not for profit

[donald goldhamer]

Some confusion here....
Let's see if I can offer yet more clarification about CIMC and 501(c)3
activities. 

Some of CIMC's activities are clearly and legitimately OK under IRS rules
for tax-exempt organizations.  Those activities can be supported by
tax-exempt donations given to our fiscal agent (8th Day Center for Justice)
and carried out as an activity or expense of the 8th day Center's IMC
project.  We merely must be able to demonstrate that an amount equal to those
tax-exempt donations has been spent on legitimate tax-exempt activities.

CIMC is free to conduct any other activities, using its own (i.e. not
donated as a tax-exempt contribution or grant) funds, with NO governmental
restrictions. So CIMC is free to cnduct any kind of party or video-showing
or political campaign or ... it wishes, so long as it does not use any
tax-exempt donations to do so.

The issue of whether, as CIMC, we want to be affiliated with MoveOn's
campaign, which would identify us as somehow affiliated with them, is
another matter altogether.  

I am a supporter of MoveOn myself.  But I personally would prefer to have
individuals do the party if they want to, and not associate CIMC as sponsor
of the effort.  CIMC needs to remain independent of any organizations,
however worthy, since we cannot manage to participate in ALL of them.

--Don

>On the D7 screening, we probably shouldn't do it under imc, but I'm up for
>a get together.  i can even ask my sister about using our place.  our tv
>is small, but we could get one of those projectors for the wall.
>as per the 501(c)3, I stand clarified.

>>so, we should probably not do the moveon video, since it may be viewed as
>>an in-kind donation? we'd have to be people screening the film, not imc
>>screening it to get around that.  i'm going to buy it anyway. if someone
>>has a dvd player and a tv and would like to screen it at his-her house,
>>for the benefit of who ever wants to come, good. otherwise, i'll be
>>watching it on my computer screen at home on D7.
>>m