FIRST Indiana License Plates

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by IndySam

Great idea Mike. Will we be able to use the fund raising part of the Indiana license plate program? It would be just the thing to help Indiana FIRST organization do some real good.

The plan is to distribute any money raised by license plate sales among all Indiana teams. Perhaps we can set some aside strictly for IndianaFIRST, but that may be difficult since right now IndianaFIRST does not, legally, exist.

[Amanda Morrison]

Originally Posted by boiler

The plan is to distribute any money raised by license plate sales among all Indiana teams. Perhaps we can set some aside strictly for IndianaFIRST, but that may be difficult since right now IndianaFIRST does not, legally, exist.

He's right - Libby Ritchie pitched this idea to the then-newly-forming IndianaFIRST group back in 2002-2003. I was assigned to research it and found that the group needed to be an official 501(c)(3) organization in order to apply, since there is revenue generated that goes back to each organization when someone applies for their license plate.

At that time, we did more research and ended up dropping the effort later. I don't believe anyone took it up afterward and therefore IndianaFIRST is not a legal nonprofit group... currently it is only the umbrella name used when mentors from all Indiana teams are working toward common goals.

I guess the only concern I would have is your method to distribute the funds to other Indiana teams... we originally pitched it to go through IndianaFIRST because we could guarantee the distribution of funds through an umbrella organization and the funding would not be channeled through one team or one individual.

Plates look great- good job on making this happen.