Here is a blog about non-profits and "earned" income. It is certainly possible (and common). The two big things to look out for are: - whether the goods sold are substantially related to the non-profit's purpose - and how much income is derived relative to other activities
http://www.nonprofitlawblog.com/the-profitable-side-of-nonprofits-part-i-earned-income/ I know others who are more knowledgable can also comment. ~Roger Whitcomb Apache Pivot PMC > On Oct 13, 2014, at 8:27 AM, jan i <j...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On 13 October 2014 16:30, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Rich, >> >> How about drop shipments directly from the publishing party, if they can >> handle that? That way no inventory would be required. >> >> With OFBiz The ASF can take the ordersin (not only for books, but also >> promotion stuff like t-shirts, banners, buttons, etc), accept the payment >> (credit card, etc) and send the supply order to the party handling the drop >> shipments. > Technically I am sure OFBiz can handle it, but how does this work with our > non-profit status, I am not sure we can freely sell goods without paying > taxes. > > rgds > jan I. > > >> >> Best regards, >> >> Pierre Smits >> >> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* >> Services & Solutions for Cloud- >> Based Manufacturing, Professional >> Services and Retail & Trade >> http://www.orrtiz.com >> >>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 10/10/2014 12:07 PM, Pierre Smits wrote: >>>> >>>> Rich, >>>> >>>> Why not consider the eCommerce solution of the Apache OFBiz project as a >>>> replacement for the wiki page? >>> >>> That could be cool - you mean, selling books directly and giving profits >>> to the ASF? How would we handle shipping/inventory? >>> >>> Anyways, I haven't heard back from anyone that handles that site, and I >>> don't have the cycles to pursue it, but it sounds like a good thing to >> try >>> to do, if someone wanted to take that project. >>> >>> --Rich >>> >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Pierre Smits >>>> >>>> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* >>>> Services & Solutions for Cloud- >>>> Based Manufacturing, Professional >>>> Services and Retail & Trade >>>> http://www.orrtiz.com >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 10/06/2014 04:21 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 2014-10-06 17:13 GMT+04:00 Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com>: >>>>>> >>>>>> Anybody know who manages/owns/whatever ApacheBookStore.com? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On the front page: >>>>>> 1. "ASF Committers may add new items to our inventory or edit the item >>>>>> descriptions." -> contact e-mail address >>>>>> >>>>>> 2. Last line on the front page: "Contact Administrators" >>>>>> -> >> http://www.apachebookstore.com/confluence/oss/administrators.action >>>>>> >>>>>> An interesting effort, but the site looks somewhat outdated and >>>>>> unmaintained. The latest listed books are from year 2008. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks. I totally missed those. >>>>> >>>>> Yes, it's completely unmaintained, and we have several project websites >>>>> that link to it. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >>>>> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >>> -- >>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen >>> http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >>
