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Technically a non-profit is just an organization that's not
commercially motivated. :)<br>
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Legally though, the term has very specific definitions in the US,
state-defined definitions, actually, which means a CA-based nonprofit
may very well not qualify as a "non-proft" under say, Montana state
law. To sort through the state-to-state discrepancy the IRS has the
final say on nationally recognized non-profit organizations through
section 501(c) codes. There are over a million (!) of them registered
with the IRS today. Even 1% of that data will make a nice chunk in
Freebase. :)<br>
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But that's besides the point, which is: a non-profit has a privileged
status which has to be qualified by the system that recognizes it as a
non-profit, much as a protected site needs to specify the park system
under which it is protected. Without that data, or at least a property
to input that data, the claim of being a non-profit becomes...well,
unqualified, and legally weak.<br>
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Kirrily, I'll have to check out your charities domain. :)<br>
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-- Faye<br>
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Kirrily Robert wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Not all non-profits take donations. However, I have been modeling
charities in a domain of my own (/user/skud/charities) and I've got
properties for religious affiliation as well as geographical focus.
K.
On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:27 PM, Alexander Marks wrote:
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<pre wrap="">How about a Religious Affiliation property? Applies to any
organization, I guess, but seems especially relevant for those that
take donations.
Al
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From: "Jeff Prucher" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jeff@metaweb.com"><jeff@metaweb.com></a>
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Sent: Thursday, August 7, 2008 9:24:29 PM (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: [Data-modeling] Non-profits, once more with feeling
I sent a note about this a couple weeks ago, and received no
responses. I'm
figuring that either things are slow because it's summer (in the
Northern
Hemisphere anyway) or that nobody cares much about this schema one
way or
another. Just in case it's the former, I'm reposting my non-profit
organization schema to sandbox; if it's for the latter reason, I'll
go ahead
and upload the schema at my leisure. :)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sandbox.freebase.com/type/view/organization/non_profit_organization">https://sandbox.freebase.com/type/view/organization/non_profit_organization</a>
It's pretty basic; it includes the types Organization (to get the
board
members and parent/child organizations, among other things), and
Employer.
Jeff Prucher
Type Librarian & Ontologist
Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
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