| We hope to file for a Non
profit charter in 2005. This will allows us to attract corporate
sponsors to TRI4MS to help pay for the administration costs of the
organization as it grows into the future. As a
non profit we will have a charter and a board of directors. We currently
have a informal board which meets every quarter. The board is made up of
Robert O'Brien, Fred Snow, Suanne Snow, Ulan Nivera and Mike Manzo. In
accordance with our current guidelines and future charter 60% of the
board are directly impacted by MS. Robert & Fred both have MS, Suanne is
married to an MS patient. Ulan and Mike are present because of their
long standing support of TRI4MS in the roles of technical advisor and
coach.
To ensure that TRI4MS never looses its integrity the charter has a requirement that
60% of the Board of directors of must be either MS suffers or
direct relative of an MS suffers. By mandating the makeup of the Board
to people directly impacted by MS this will help protect the integrity
of the organization for the future.
Regardless of our status we will continue to contribute 100% of
funds raised directly to the National MS Society As we grow we anticipate that administration cost will
increase, for the fiscal year 2005 we the founders will take on all the
costs of administration. A non profit status will allows us to deduct
these cost and hence allows us to do more with our limited personal
funds. When we do secure a corporate sponsor we will disclose the nature
of the relationship on this site .
Our hope for 2005 is to raise 100,000 for the National
MS Society, we hope to get 100 people to compete in endurance events
throughout the year and each person will try to raise $1000. Following
our charter we do not have a minimum requirements all we ask is people to
try to raise $1000.
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