Grex is considering seeking 501(C)3 federal tax exemption, as a charitable
 non-profit organization (see Item 34 in Coop). The Grex Articles of
 Incorporation are written to facilitate this, but the further test is
 whether the corporation is evidently engaged in charitable non-profit
 activities to further its purposes. One useful definition of these is
 programs that serve to fulfill a function that would otherwise have to
 be conducted by federal or state agencies. The educational activities
 of grex, if sufficiently active and noteworthy, would fit into this
 condition. Likewise, so would "the exchange of scientific and technical
 information about the various aspects of computer science, such as
 operating systems, computer networks, and computer programming", if the
 public has access to these, and they are being conducted for the public
 benefit (the quote is from the grex Articles, available in
 /u/rcurl/grex.articles.

 The full possible range of non-profit chartiable programs that grex could
 provide the public has not yet been defined, but will have to be to
 substantiate an application for 501(C)3 tax exemption. Everything that
 grex does or could do will need to be examined. One place to start is
 in the individual conferences. Therefore, I enter this item to encourage the
 discussion of possible Environment programs that could be conducted for the
 public benefit.                                                             

1 responses total.

Couldn't grex provide a current database on toxic/hazardous emissions
from companies doing business in southeastern Michigan? The information
must be filed by companies (required by law), and the EPA publishes the
information, but current information is not easily accessed (I don't
know where I could see the list with the push of 7 buttons). Supporting
this information access would be a public service.

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