paper: 2052 (KnightKrawler) Articles of Incorporation

[Bryan Herbst]

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2052 (KnightKrawler) Articles of Incorporation by Tanis

[Basel A]

No substantial part of the activities of the corporation shall constitute the carrying on of propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, or any initiative or referendum before the public,

Does that limit your team's ability to talk to politicians about more STEM funding, FIRST, etc. or am I reading it wrong? Mainly talking about the influencing legislation part.

[Bryan Herbst]

Originally Posted by Basel A

Does that limit your team's ability to talk to politicians about more STEM funding, FIRST, etc. or am I reading it wrong? Mainly talking about the influencing legislation part.

No, because working with local politicians wouldn't be a substantial part of our activities.

I'm sure that if we devoted a significant amount of energy to such activities someone could call us out on it, but in the incredibly improbably chance that we found ourselves in a legal battle, I have a feeling that the fact that our main purpose (and main focus of our energies) is to build a robot for FIRST would force a ruling in our favor.

Plus, compare any time a team spends talking to local politicians to the amount of time spent working on the robot during build season, and I doubt anyone would label the former "substantial!"

[Basel A]

Oh, so the idea there being, you aren't a lobbyist organization applying for nonprofit status.

[Bryan Herbst]

Exactly.

[hg273]

Originally Posted by Tanis

No, because working with local politicians wouldn't be a substantial part of our activities.

...I have a feeling that the fact that our main purpose (and main focus of our energies) is to build a robot for FIRST would force a ruling in our favor.

Plus, compare any time a team spends talking to local politicians to the amount of time spent working on the robot during build season, and I doubt anyone would label the former "substantial!"

Perhaps not local politicians, but I know of a couple of marketing and outreach managers who might disagree with you on some of those points...

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by hg273

Perhaps not local politicians, but I know of a couple of marketing and outreach managers who might disagree with you on some of those points...

What matters is if it's legally considered as such, not whether or not a team member feels they do a lot of work or not.

[ABRAXAS]

im proud to be on team 2052!!!!!!1 XD