[Osmf-talk] Humanitarian work (was: 2018 a third episode...)

[Blake Girardot]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 6:05 AM Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
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> One of the ways this could/could have been addressed would be do have a majority of the HOT board be nominated by the OSMF.
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> Further I don't believe HOT is a charity (in the sense of the UK legal construct), naturally to continue to benefit from their US special tax status business would need to be executed in an appropriate fashion.
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> Simon

You can believe it, HOT US Inc. is a US 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

https://www.hotosm.org/downloads/2017-Form-990.pdf

(our tax filings are available for the past 6 years as well)

And a highly rated one for transparency as well:

https://www.guidestar.org/profile/27-3166713

Cheers,
Blake
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