Reports from Meetings

Report from Sally Penta CPA:
• there is no tax advantage to registering as a company with a dba
• each of us can and should deduct expenses and payments from our massmouth work as we go
• this year continue as we are
• we should incorporate and be nonprofit unless it IS our intention to turn a profit ( on storytelling ? for real? – I do not think so - I am not worried )

my thoughts-
it costs $75 to join VLA – volunteer lawyers for the arts and they can help us ?
and later we could proceed to incorporate. APPLICATION FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE (Non-Profit Incorporation) We would fill in both sides of this application as completely as possible and return it with a non-refundable application fee of $250 made payable to: VLA

or
we could ask Three Apples if they want to morph into massmouth, or somehow call us an outreach committee of their organization and incorporate us into them ?Seeing as Three Apples is reorganizing and we are realizing their mission statement this might fly? Something I know that we could run a festival – right ? Our OUT OF THE BOX festival?
Lets think about this one before we do it and what that would mean, would that be another LANES type thing? That is what happened with STF.
They have a board and a misssion that may not be quite the same. We are taking people by surprise and building audiences ,that , may not be there vision. However an alliance may be in keeping with both our missions. Affliation?? P.S. this is Andrea up had trouble with color as you can see. Blue is my color.