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Charitable Giving
I am looking for ideas on charitable giving for my business. I am interested in what other members of the Onstartups.com community do and what has worked for you.
For my business, I currently ...
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Premium features VS Donation gifts
We are developing a freemium business model and have planned some Premium features that users can buy. What are the main differences between these two types of monetization:
Premium model: Buy a Foo ...
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PayPal donations, Tax-Deductibility?
I got into some legal trouble and am setting up a donation page to fund a defense fund.
Are PayPal donations Tax Deductible, So that I don't have to pay taxes on the donations?
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How to license closed source free-ware application for distribution to the public?
I have created a small application/tool, and I would like to release it to the public under those conditions:
It is free. (donations are welcome)
It is closed source.
In the future, I might create a ...
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Can I use a business name to accept Paypal donations (for free software) before legally forming a business?
I would like to give away some software I have developed for free on a website as donationware, but rather than see my name when people donate, I would like them to see something more official like ...
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Donations and taxes
I have a small sole proprietorship in the U.S. When I do my taxes at the end of the year I deduct my business expenses from my sales to figure about my taxable income. For example, I deduct my web ...
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Legal issues for a donations website?
I'm about 95% into what started as a personal project but has developed into a nice website with some interest. It's a distributed-donation platform for donating to charities.
Here's a quick ...
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Is it legal to accept donations as an LLC?
Similar questions have been asked, but I'm still not completely understanding. I have an LLC that sells apparel, and people have offered to give us donations because the idea of our company is to ...
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Donation Platform: LLC or a 501(c)(3)?
I am starting a for-profit online donation platform. My company currently is an LLC and I have gotten conflicting reports on whether or not I need to convert to a 501(c)(3) so that the passthrough ...
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What are the business opportunities for de jure non-profit startup?
Our technical startup - overlooking public finance - must have non-profit badge to claim neutrality and attract community.
What is the financial and business aspect?
Can we have other sources of ...
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Question about prepaid accounts for an online site
I am in the early stages of developing a site that tries to provide a direct way of rewarding photographers who provide good material. Its a small idea but I want to implement it and see how the users ...
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A Site with area for donations
I am starting up a site for people to go to in order to post messages to the 33 Chilean miners who are trapped in that mine shaft for possibly 3 months. Is it legal for me to put up a donation button ...
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Do i have to register with government for a Charity initiative site?
By profession I'm a software developer and recently me and my friend have thought of creating a web application that totally focuses on charity to underprivileged or providing things to the needy.
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Starting a donations fund through a website and drop boxes
I am in the process of starting a website to raise funds for school supplies to be donated to local grammar school aged children and want to contact some local business about using them as a drop site ...
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Can I run a web-based Non-Profit Org while living abroad?
I want to register as a non-profit org., but I'm not sure how it'd work because I'm leaving in a couple months to work in Asia for a year or more.
My website is for international photography if that ...
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How can I receive money on someone else's behalf? [closed]
I'm putting together a charitable giving framework which means that I will have to receive donated money, somehow extract my (small and reasonable) fee, and turn over the remaining money to the donee. ...
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Collecting donations to split between two charities? [closed]
I run a gaming clan and we are planning on host a 24 hour game a thon where we will be collecting donations for St. Judes and Wounded Warrior through PayPal... My question is if the donators can still ...
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What are the benefits for providing free services to a 501 non profit as a LLC?
I have been freelancing as a web designer/developer for about 5 years. Along the way I had a friend who started a 501 non profit and I offered to design and host their website for free. I never got a ...
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Using Paypal for Gifting
I am hoping to generate some revenue by sending out emails to interested people about giving a gift to the company. I am aware in order to say "donation" you must be a 501(c)(3) however if you claim ...
