[Npoc-discuss] Creating an NGO for NPOC in Estonia - with a bank account

[John More]

Great idea. Estonia is a good location.  After looking at the minimalist draft Charter, I would suggest you need to have additional provisions about a governing membership, board, officers, elections, meetings, and purposes (including reference to ICANN).

John More

> On Apr 25, 2021, at 12:40 PM, Raoul Plommer via Npoc-discuss <npoc-discuss at icann.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear members of NPOC,
> 
> For 2+ years we have been talking about setting up an NGO to have a legal entity that is able to collect donations and other payments for projects that NPOC is doing.
> 
> Some obvious benefits as an NGO include:
> 
> 1) $10 000 Google ads money MONTHLY
> 2) To be able to accept donations and project funding from organizations like the PIR
> 3) Having a registered NGO in Estonia means we can open a bank account there and with the help of the Estonian digital citizenship (100€ per person), we can manage our account from overseas AND change signatories for it, without ever visiting Estonia after the organization is registered.
> 
> What we need to do:
> 
> 1) Finish the draft of the charter of the NGO.
> 2) Pay one Estonian guy 200€ for
> - Translation
> - processing our registration
> - becoming board member for the first term
> - putting his address as the address of the NGO
> 3) Paying for the registration of the NGO to the Estonian government (<€100)
> 4) Open a bank account and have two of three board members (two from NPOC EC) get the Estonian digital citizenship
> 5) Pay €100 for each signatory
> 6) Pay €100 for me to go to Estonia and sort out the final steps in a day or two.
> 
> So that's approximately 200 (Estonian guy) + 200 (two signatories) + 100 (registration fee) + 100 (My trip to Estonia) = €600 altogether
> 
> I am sure there will be questions for a big decision like this, so please, let it rain! I'll try to answer them all, best to my knowledge. :)
> 
> -Raoul
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