<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>What Adam describes is called Fiscal Sponsorship, i.e.
partnering with an established 501.c3 to receive a grant through their
non-profit status.<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_sponsorship" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_sponsorship</a><br><br>It
is actually is a common method for US-based non profits to affiliate
with related groups in the grants they receive. I've been involved with
several fiscal sponsorship relationships here in St. Louis (including
WasabiNet).<br><br></div>The IRS guidelines for pursuing fiscal
sponsorship generally require that whatever non-profit you're partnering
with have a public mission statement that aligns somewhat with your own
goals. Also, it is conventional that the partner non-profit take 10 to
15% fee of the grant award as administrative fee. Finally, the
non-profit will need all records of how any grant funds are spent, e.g.
receipts and such.<br><br></div><div>Any fiscal sponsorship relationship
would need to be defined in a written contract between your group and
the non-profit, and signed before pursing any grant applications. I
have a boilerplate contract I've used in the past that I could share.<br></div><div><br></div>Do please note that many funders specifically do <i>not</i>
award grants for fiscal sponsorships, and unfortunately they don't
always announce this restriction publicly. Be sure to ask this of any
funders you come in contact with.<br><br></div>(P.S. It is always a good
idea to call up any prospective funder and chat. Just submitting forms
online is pretty bland; they like to hear from the people they're
supporting.)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:59 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sp2ong@wp.pl" target="_blank">sp2ong@wp.pl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I will be following with this subject because we have starting built Mesh network base on openwrt and olsrd v1 for hamradio in Poland. We have use Mikrotik RB411, RB112, TP-Link WR740, Ubiquiti like Nanostation2, M2 and WA5210G. </div><div><br></div><div>We have in a few cities running small local mesh networks. Distances average between nodes are about 1 - 3 and more kms. </div><div><br></div><div>We use frequency below 2400 Mhz where we have our bandplan for hamradio and we can use channel width 5 or 10 Mhz.<br></div><div><br></div><div>But we have observer low speed in transfer for example in many cases we have 250 kBs in hwmode 11G between 1 hop nodes </div><div><br></div><div>We have try tune wireless parameter like distance (ACK Time), RTS, Frag but without big improvement</div><div><br></div><div>It will be nice to read any advice and suggestion. We have try use internal antenna in Ubiquiti devices but we have try use external like yagi, Biquads, AMOS (sector home made antenna <a href="http://www.qsl.net/yu1aw/ANT_VHF/Amos_Ant/amos_antennas.htm" target="_blank">http://www.qsl.net/yu1aw/ANT_VHF/Amos_Ant/amos_antennas.htm</a> )</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> Best regards<br></div><div><br></div><div>Waldek</div></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">2015-05-27 21:54 GMT+02:00 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dpeel@vtlink.net" target="_blank">dpeel@vtlink.net</a>></span>:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><font face="times new roman" size="2"><p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family:'times new roman';font-size:10pt;word-wrap:break-word">We're working on a pilot wireless mesh project in a downtown low income area in a small town in northern Vermont. We're doing pretty well with our own resources so far including some donated equipment, but if we are to involve very many residents we will need more money to provide free routers as most people here are not able to afford it themselves. We've thought about becoming a non-profit but that looks really complicated! We also thought about looking for an organization that is already a non-profit under which we could work to apply for grants. Or we could try crowdfunding? Does anybody have any insights or suggestions? Thanks--Diane</p></font><br></span><span class="">_______________________________________________<br>
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