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Don't actually see any one from the National Cooperative Business Association or a director from a coop background. I hope they are not going down again the
by walshemj 7y ago
Don't actually see any one from the National Cooperative Business Association or a director from a coop background.
I hope they are not going down again the route of limiting it to purely American style non profits - which in the past would have excluded the red cross and people like JWZ
- kerkeslager 7y agoIn what style is JWZ a nonprofit?
- paxswill 7y agoHis personal blog is at jwz.org.
- walshemj 7y agoHis email is jwz@jwz.org an has been for decades
- kerkeslager 7y agoI know--I'm subscribed to his blog's RSS. Are you arguing that we shouldn't limit .org to nonprofits at all? Or that we shouldn't limit .org to American-style nonprofits?
- bwoodcock 7y agoMost countries have minimum citizenship requirements for board members, to avoid scams where a company does something bad and there are no board members within their jurisdiction to be held to account. The U.S. is no different than most other countries in that regard, and CCOR has to be incorporated somewhere. The US has the strongest laws protecting cooperative members, and consequently hosts more cooperatives than any other country, so it’s a good place to get started, and a majority of the founding board members thus had to be US citizens. That can be changed through election if we succeed.