Foundation Progress
The goal of 360Bikers has always been the creation of a public charity to provide help for fallen bikers that are the victims of mishaps that just aren’t their fault. Saturday, we had our second meeting as a group and made some significant progress.
Alan and Jan had worked together and made great progress in getting organized for the legal process. I had mentioned at the earlier meeting that there are a lot of fees associated with the process and they have discovered a lot of the forms we would need.
We also elected officers for creating the new corporation that would become our not-for-profit entity. The results are:
- President, Lee Keller
- Secretary, Jan Carlson
- Treasurer, Mitzi Ellis
- Sergeant at Arms – Ian Border
The Board of Directors
- Mark Baxter
- Trudy Baxter
- Roger Ellis
- Alan Neibauer
- Nick Perez
- Nicole Perez
Our meeting tonight continued the work from the Saturday meeting. We met at Panera’s in Boynton Beach and got down to business immediately. First, we connected to the IRS site to create our Federal Employee Identification Number. This allows us to continue in the corporate process as well as pursuing the tax-exempt status. We went over the requirements for the corporation and Lee will submit papers to create it under Florida Law. Finally, we scoured the IRS tax exempt paper work, which is over 25 pages to be submitted for our charity status.
We will be meeting next week to complete some of these processes and begin working to help fallen motorcyclists.
