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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 1194388" data-attributes="member: 1025">I'd sure like to see ENWorld file for the non-profit status and have a formal business plan. It wouldn't have to be elaborate, just enough to know what our expectations as a community are, and our commitments to ourselves. We may have raised a lot of money in what seemed like a few hours, but in reality, the money was raised over many, many months of being invovled with each other and caring about each other. Lots of people, myself incluced, "always meant to support ENWorld but never got around to it." The reasons were many, but mostly there was no really easy and secure way to send the payment. Everyone kept bombarding me with Paypal horror stories. I think Expeditious Retreat's idea was fabulous and easy (and I hope probably generated some traffic for them too.) I worry slightly about whether it's all strictly legal, or whether we could go on using that, and what we'd lose to taxes and processing fees. If we set up an annual pledge/membership drive, I'd need to know that we had a legal, safe and secure way to handle the money, and to account for what it got spent on. Maybe some community input about the budget priorities: e.g. is it more important to have a faster server or be online for another month or pay our administrator for his time and effort? Obviously we want all of these things, but maybe we should formally itemize the things we spend money on and be generally aware of them and what they are likely to run us in the next year. A business plan would address that sort of thing.</blockquote>

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