CARES.green Foundation Ltd
Review Tax Filing & Governing Documents for Budding NGO
Building access to provide community-based, sustainability-focused mental health programs.
Posted September 19, 2024
Background & Context
Our mission is to expand access to sustainable, community-based residential programs for individuals with mental illness. We achieve this through providing grants, scholarships, fostering networks of experts, research and development, and promotion. We also empower participants with our job board and extensive network.
Immediate Problem
We are in need of legal advice regarding everything we've done so far, really.
Work & Deliverables
- Review give advice about our Bylaws
- Review give advice about our Policies and Procedures
- Review give advice about our organizational structure
- Review give advice about our tax exemption application, 1023 (EZ and standard)
- Do we need to complete a 990?
We're very grateful for any other tasks or advice that come to mind!
Preparation Phase
- Background call with our director and documents coordinator.
- Sign volunteer agreement, have documents sent to you.
Collaboration Phase
- Review drafts and send any written markup, comments, and advice to director.
Wrap Up
- Conclusive conversation with director - advice regarding the documents and for our next steps.
CARES.green Foundation Ltd
We are a budding nonprofit corporation promoting and funneling funds to the development of land-based mental health programs founded on community and sustainability. CARES stands for Communities Advancing Recovery, Empowerment, Sustainability, and founded in Colorado with an international team and with the intention of becoming a global resource. Our activities are meant to support the development and proliferation of care farm programs with and for communities where they are needed, and we intend to do this via our Five Branches of Action, which include: - Grants for care farms (existing and intending). - Scholarships for attendees with severe needs from low-income families. - Research for the improvement of mental health treatment. - Network opportunities for care farm experts to disseminate breakthroughs, exchange insight, and skills training. - Promotion of care farms within and without healthcare systems to expand access to effective services. We are currently building our foundation. We have our legal registration (both state and federal), pitch decks, logo, bylaws, temporary website (our platform is being built), and some internal organization, digital and legal infrastructure.
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CARES.green Foundation Ltd
We are a budding nonprofit corporation promoting and funneling funds to the development of land-based mental health programs founded on community and sustainability. CARES stands for Communities Advancing Recovery, Empowerment, Sustainability, and founded in Colorado with an international team and with the intention of becoming a global resource. Our activities are meant to support the development and proliferation of care farm programs with and for communities where they are needed, and we intend to do this via our Five Branches of Action, which include: - Grants for care farms (existing and intending). - Scholarships for attendees with severe needs from low-income families. - Research for the improvement of mental health treatment. - Network opportunities for care farm experts to disseminate breakthroughs, exchange insight, and skills training. - Promotion of care farms within and without healthcare systems to expand access to effective services. We are currently building our foundation. We have our legal registration (both state and federal), pitch decks, logo, bylaws, temporary website (our platform is being built), and some internal organization, digital and legal infrastructure.