Team Constitution and/or Bylaw

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Originally Posted by George C

In this case, we've established a community-based team partly because of the restrictions involved with being in a school. We've formed a not-for-profit corporation which oversees the team and have set up a partnership with a local community college where we will meet. As part of the process we must have a constitution within a set period of time. It isn't the same as a team handbook. In Canada, not-for-profit and charitable are not the same thing. One is provincial and can't give out tax receipts. The other is federal and can but the paperwork and reporting is more challenging. We're in the process of setting up a relationship with the local Community Foundation to help with the tax receipt issue.

Don't know exactly how 4-H works up there, but if it is anything like it is down here, you just have to start a 4-H club and your team (club) can fall under the local/national 4-H program so you get automatic exemption as a non-profit group. In addition, it also often provides your members with liability insurance and other added benefits. If you're getting started, I strongly check into that, as there are 4-H agents who are more than willing to meet with you to see if your end goal could be obtained with 4-H