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All rescue websites have information on the dogs themselves.
This thread is asking if your rescue website gives any information from the nonprofit/501 side? <span style="color: #FF0000">There are probably some questions that many rescues will prefer to not answer in a post, but hopefully they will at least acknowledge a problem to themselves and decide to try to find a solution.</span>
Does your site list any rescue guidelines or policies?
Do you make applications for new volunteer fosters available on-line? Do you state any of your organization guidelines so potential fosters can determine if they want to complete this application?
How open (transparent) is your organization to the general public?
1) Can anyone go to your site and find general information on how your rescue is set up?
2) Would they have to go from page to page looking for a contact for additional info or is it easy to find?
3) If you list other organizations/rescues on your site do you stand behind them? If a rescue on your listing is later found to have been in legal problems how do you handle this?
a) Do you sever all knowledge -- ie. go to your site and just delete their name and act like it was never listed there?
b) Do you have a spokesperson from your organization make a statement that you based your original recommendation (posting on your site implies a recommendation to the general public) on incorrect or incomplete information?
c) Do you just not worry about the quality of the rescues listed on your site as long as you can fill up the page and make your organization look more impressive?
If you post that your organization is pending a 501(c)(3) --
1) How long do you have it listed as such? A couple of months / years / until the website is taken down?
2) At what point do you put up a pending 501 on your site?
a) The day that you become a nonprofit with your State?
b) The day that you start gathering information to submit to the IRS?
c) The day that your secretary or other designated person mails the completed application and requested documents off to the IRS? The day you receive notice that the IRS has received your packet and your application will now be reviewed?
d) The day that you decide that you may someday maybe want to try to go to a 501 tax status?
On your donation request page do you inform your donors of your tax status?
1) If you are only nonprofit status do you have it posted on your page that donations are not tax deductible for the donor?
2) If you have your 501 tax status do you give instructions on how the donor may receive a written receipt to take a tax deduction?
3) On your page do you give any info on how a donor can find out the current financial standing of your organization with your incorporating agency?
4) Does your organization have a valid and current solicitation permit/letter/approval from the state in which you are incorporated as a nonprofit? Do you display or post this information in the manner in keeping with your state regulations?
5) Do you just ask for money and hope that no one ever checks on your credentials or a state agency never discovers your disreguard for procedures?
This thread is asking if your rescue website gives any information from the nonprofit/501 side? <span style="color: #FF0000">There are probably some questions that many rescues will prefer to not answer in a post, but hopefully they will at least acknowledge a problem to themselves and decide to try to find a solution.</span>
Does your site list any rescue guidelines or policies?
Do you make applications for new volunteer fosters available on-line? Do you state any of your organization guidelines so potential fosters can determine if they want to complete this application?
How open (transparent) is your organization to the general public?
1) Can anyone go to your site and find general information on how your rescue is set up?
2) Would they have to go from page to page looking for a contact for additional info or is it easy to find?
3) If you list other organizations/rescues on your site do you stand behind them? If a rescue on your listing is later found to have been in legal problems how do you handle this?
a) Do you sever all knowledge -- ie. go to your site and just delete their name and act like it was never listed there?
b) Do you have a spokesperson from your organization make a statement that you based your original recommendation (posting on your site implies a recommendation to the general public) on incorrect or incomplete information?
c) Do you just not worry about the quality of the rescues listed on your site as long as you can fill up the page and make your organization look more impressive?
If you post that your organization is pending a 501(c)(3) --
1) How long do you have it listed as such? A couple of months / years / until the website is taken down?
2) At what point do you put up a pending 501 on your site?
a) The day that you become a nonprofit with your State?
b) The day that you start gathering information to submit to the IRS?
c) The day that your secretary or other designated person mails the completed application and requested documents off to the IRS? The day you receive notice that the IRS has received your packet and your application will now be reviewed?
d) The day that you decide that you may someday maybe want to try to go to a 501 tax status?
On your donation request page do you inform your donors of your tax status?
1) If you are only nonprofit status do you have it posted on your page that donations are not tax deductible for the donor?
2) If you have your 501 tax status do you give instructions on how the donor may receive a written receipt to take a tax deduction?
3) On your page do you give any info on how a donor can find out the current financial standing of your organization with your incorporating agency?
4) Does your organization have a valid and current solicitation permit/letter/approval from the state in which you are incorporated as a nonprofit? Do you display or post this information in the manner in keeping with your state regulations?
5) Do you just ask for money and hope that no one ever checks on your credentials or a state agency never discovers your disreguard for procedures?