hamiltonfan Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Why don’t the voyageurs have a donation center on the main site? With the number of members growing I think that we, the voyageurs, could make a fair bit of money that could be used on different things. One of the things we could use them for is ads or something to promote the Voyageurs, maybe in newspapers or something. What do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimglow Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Great idea Hamilton Fan, but in order for us to start taking money there would have to be an executive council of Voyageurs set up, and idea that has been shot down time and again. But maybe it's time to revive the idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamiltonfan Posted December 17, 2003 Author Share Posted December 17, 2003 if one person would be willing to collect the money and maybe have a bank acount then we could send it to them. i dont no if any one would want to do that though. we could vote to see what we do with the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimglow Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 What you're suggesting would involve formalizing the Voyageurs in ways many of us don't want. I believe getting organized and more professional would be a good thing, but let me assure you H-fan that there would be an ugly and divisive war before anything like that got done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcl_19 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 not being an "offical" voyageur maybe i shouldn't add in my 2 cents. But im sick, and bored so i will n e ways. It would be pretty difficult to let 1 person handle the bank account and all the money stuyff, when most of the other voyageurs have not met the person outside of the internet on this board. That's a lot of trust to put nto someone you've never met. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarrek Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 In order to properly allow donations, and for us to issue tax receipts we would need to become incorporated - an expensive proposition. Unless we have someone here that is a registered CMA, and we have another person who is a lawyer to help us with the incorporation, explain benifits, drawbacks, etc, we just won't go that route for now - it's too expensive year to year. I think we will revisit this issue in the new year as Canada's WC qualifying approaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ref Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Here is an idea. There are some voyageurs who are lawyers. Most lawyers handle Trust accounts for their clients. These Trust accounts are very closely scrutinized and audited to the last penny. Having all that mechanism in place maybe one of these voyageurs-lawyers can set up a similar Trust account where the rest of us can make direct deposits to it. The money will be safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codegoat Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 I may be out of place in saying this... But my question to this entire thread would be, why? I am sure you have some ideas for what we could do with the money. But I am not sure what they are, so I would appreciate ideas that have been talked about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Ref Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Jarrek In order to properly allow donations, and for us to issue tax receipts we would need to become incorporated - an expensive proposition. Unless we have someone here that is a registered CMA, and we have another person who is a lawyer to help us with the incorporation, explain benifits, drawbacks, etc, we just won't go that route for now - it's too expensive year to year. I think we will revisit this issue in the new year as Canada's WC qualifying approaches. You need not be incorporated to issue tax receipts, you need to be given Charitable status by the CCRA. That ain't easy to get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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