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I want to start some kind of Not for Profit Hunger Charity, to help raise food and money to feed the homeless… I dont know anything about business but I have the passion for the cause, if I could get pointed in the right direction I believe I can do a hell of job….. any helpful tips for me?

First you would need to find out your states requirements for forming a non profit and get those forms. You would then file with your states Secretary of State the business purpose (like any other corporation). You would then see about filing a 501(c)(3) with the IRS - which allows your organization to be exempt from taxes. One thing that I would suggest is for you to call other non-profits in the same area of what you wish to do and ask them about how they got started - if they are truly charitable they should help. Then you would need to either hire a grant writer, this is to raise the money your organization will need or try and raise the money yourself through fund raisers - or a combination of both. Some counties in certain states actually have funds that are set aside for certain types of charities and you need to be able to tap into this - that’s why having a grant writer helps because it’s their job to find the money for you.

Go to this website for a very good explanation of what a non-profit is and what actions you can take to start one…http://www.bizfilings.com/learning/nonprofitfaq.asp.

Hope this helps and if your are sincere about what you want to do, your have a very good concept for one.

I have a college degree, but that never got me a good job. So I opened a small business. I own my very own laundromat, but that doesn’t make me the money I want either.

My father keeps telling me all the time to become a pastor, so I can become rich. But unlike my father, I’m not an atheist, so I could never do something as sneaky as that. So the next best thing is to start a charity.

How can I start a charity?

I think you are misinformed. If the CEO of a charity is a millionaire, he did not earn it running the charity. Many states have many rules about the operation of a charity. Be aware of the rules, lest you end up behind bars.

What do you think, if jesus gets a chance to select his wife, what kind o girl he would prefer? Will he marry an Italian or american? What characters he would look for and why?

jesus’s bride is the church.

I have been running my nonprofit for a year now but have heard that I can easily turn it into a 501 c 3 so my donors can get a tax write off. I do not know who to contact to take the nonprofit to the next level or what the next steps would be. I don’t want to incur a lot of costs in the process. Where do I start?

A nonprofit is a corporation, just like General Motors, or Sears, or McDonald’s.
You file the incorporation documents with your home state the same way.
There must be an official address and place of business, by laws, a board of directors, board meetings, and minutes of those meetings.
They are required to file formal reports on their financial activities with the state AND the feds.

Now here is where the differences start.

The difference is that a nonprofit has no owner and no stock.
When the corporation brings in more money than it spends, the excess is called a "fund balance", instead of a "profit".
That fund balance can be re-invested in the corporation or held in savings for future projects or for lean times.
The board of directors makes those decisions.

Once the org incorporates, it must apply to the IRS for a tax exempt status.
Those rules are under section 501(c) of the IRS code.
Most charities are under (c)(3).
Labor unions are under c5.
There are about two dozen different categories.

That means that the ORGANIZATION does not pay taxes on its income.
The EMPLOYEES of the organization pay their personal taxes under the same rules as everyone else.

Individuals who donate money to c3 orgs can deduct it from their income taxes, if they itemize.
Donations to other categories - c4, c5, etc. are not deductible.

There are thousands of state and federal rules governing activities, finances, and reporting.

For example, c3 orgs CAN NOT endorse political candidates and there are strict limits on the lobbying that they can do.
That’s why labor unions can endorse candidates and churches can’t.

State laws on soliciting donations from the public vary, but all states have them.

C3 and C4 orgs can be eligible for government grants for their work.
They can also solicit money from charitable foundations.

But then the foundations will come to their offices and tell them they’re doing everything wrong and refuse to give them any money unless they change everything they do.
And even then they might not give the money.

I hate foundations.

Look at http://www.irs.gov/charities/index.html
There is more info at www.foundationcenter.org
Source(s):
27 years as volunteer, staff, manager, board member, board president, and consultant to nonprofit corporations.

Can someone give me information about this group? They essentially believe that John the Baptist was the real Messiah, and something along the lines of the followers of jesus stealing the show, and the Paul. I *think* these people are still around today, but not sure. What is their branch of Christianity called?

Thanks!

Possibly some group of Gnostics believe the messiah was John the Baptist, but they cannot be considered "christian".

Mandaeism or Mandaeanism (Mandaic: Mandaiuta, Arabic: مندائية‎ Mandā’iyya, Persian: مندائیان) is a monotheistic religion with a strongly dualistic worldview. Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enosh, Noah, Shem, Aram and especially John the Baptist.

Mandaeism has historically been practiced primarily around the lower Euphrates and Tigris and the rivers that surround the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, part of southern Iraq and Khuzestan Province in Iran. There are thought to be between 60,000 and 70,000 Mandaeans worldwide, and until the 2003 Iraq war, almost all of them lived in Iraq. Most Iraqi Mandaeans have since fled the country under the threat of violence by other Iraqis and the turmoil of the war. By 2007, the population of Iraqi Mandaeans had fallen to approximately 5,000. Most Iraqi Mandaeans now live in Syria and Jordan, with smaller populations in Sweden, Australia, the United States, and other Western countries.

The Mandaeans may well be the only sect from late Antiquity to identify themselves explicitly as Gnostics. Certainly, the Mandaean religion shares much with the ensemble of sects labelled as Gnostics, which date to the 1st century AD and the following centuries; however, there are crucial differences, particularly in the realm of the behavioral ethics of the laity.

Though the Gospels relate the life of Jesus, they are not conventional biographies. How do they differ from conventional biographies? What do they relate about the life, work and teachings of jesus?

Well, conventional biographies talk about people that actually existed.

and then; if you can, name what makes that religion different from others.

christian
Roman Catholic
Byzantine Catholic
Methodist
Episcopalian
Anglican
Latter-Day Saints/Mormon
Amish
Quaker
Lutheran
Southern Baptist
Baptist
Westboro Baptist (if that even counts as a real religion)
Presbyterian
Seventh-Day Adventist
Jehovah’s Witness
nazarene
Greek Orthodox
Coptic Orthodox

BUDDHIST
(the one I can’t spell)
(the other one I can’t spell)

MUSLIM
Sunni
Shiite

JEWISH
Reform
Conservative
Orthodox

HINDU
(another one I can’t spell)
(yet another I can’t spell)

Confucianist
Taoist
Pagan
Pantheist
Universal Unitarian
Scientologist

I mean, I’m pretty sure Jesus would be for the health care plan, do you really think Jesus would approve of health insurance companies turning them down because they have a pre-existing condition?

Well if your pretty sure Jesus would be for this health care plan are you also pretty sure that Jesus would not want prayer,the ten commandments and the bible banned in almost every arena of public life. What about the uproar over the display of anything that gives reference to our Judeo christian heritage. America has become a Nation of fools " Ever learning but never coming to the knowledge of the truth". What nation on earth has corrupted the whole world with its decadence,what nation on earth has murdered over 4 million babies in the most sacred place on earth the womb of a women.
What nation on earth is the number one producer of pornography,occult movies,and drug exports. I think the least of our problems is health care and the soon coming Messiah the Lord jesus Christ will judge America for spitting in his face and denying his existence. We will go the way of Rome,and Babylon who were also destroyed from within like a cancer. Look at this country 50 years ago and the morals we had as a nation and compare it with today. What do you think Jesus would approve of,we have the problems we do in this country because America has turned its back on God. We are going to need a health care plan to protect us from the wrath of a God who we are trying so hard to prove doesn’t exist, thats the health care plan I am interested in. America laughs now but what has happened in our country and our economy is just the beginning of many sorrows.
"Because iniquity shall abound the love of many will grow cold" " Because they did not want to believe in God,God shall send them a strong delusion that they would believe a lie"

I am Catholic, and I am planning to either at Texas State or Baylor. I realized that it’s a Baptist University, do you have to be baptist? I want to study Education there.

I go to Baylor too, and you definitely do not have to be Baptist to go here. However, they are more religious than most schools their size, so keep that in mind. They’re not overly religious like Oral Roberts or Bob Jones, but you will have required religion courses (very non-denominational, more like a history course than anything) and chapel, which has people, pastors, musicians, and performers from many different christian religions. So, if you are completely against being affected by religions other than your own then you might not find it the right fit. All that is usually over by your second year though, and after that it’s mostly that there isn’t as big of a party scene here as there are at other schools and it is a dry campus with "visiting hours" for members of the opposite sex in on-campus housing (they’re not too bad though, strict dorms end at 10:00 pm and the less strict ones go til 2:00 am).

The best advice I can give is to check out the school for yourself and see, but it’s a great school and I have friends here who are Catholic, Hindu, Baptist, Atheist and everything else.

I go to a christian school and im on the basketball team. Im looking for a good christian rap song to use when we come out at home games. Any suggestions?

T-Bone, Zane, Montell Jordan - To Da River
Listen to it and see if that’s ok
it’s from the Fighting Temptations movie
it’s pretty fast to warm up to,
and I like it lol
hope I helped some(: