[foundation-board] ED Certified l Open Knowledge Foundation

Tue Oct 10 20:53:27 UTC 2017

Yes! Glad that’s done.

Congratulations.

Andrew

> On 10 Oct 2017, at 06:55, Karin Christiansen <karin at karinchristiansen.org> wrote:
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> Wonderful news!
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> On 10 Oct 2017 7:07 am, "Mark Gibbs" <mark.gibbs at okfn.org <mailto:mark.gibbs at okfn.org>> wrote:
> Dear all,
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> It gives me great pleasure to forward this email from NGOSoirce, over the last weeks Michelle, Paul and I have been working to reverse a decision that NGOSource made just over two years ago.  Last night I had the last call with Kevin and his team, he then announces that they had decided to grant us with Charitable Equivalency, please see the email below.
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> Kind Regards
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> Mark Gibbs
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>> From: Kevin Ryan <kryan at techsoupglobal.org <mailto:kryan at techsoupglobal.org>>
>> Date: 10 October 2017 at 01:10:48 BST
>> To: Mark Gibbs <mark.gibbs at okfn.org <mailto:mark.gibbs at okfn.org>>, Michelle Heydon <michelle.heydon at okfn.org <mailto:michelle.heydon at okfn.org>>
>> Cc: NGOS_accountsupport <accountsupport at ngosource.org <mailto:accountsupport at ngosource.org>>
>> Subject: ED Certified l Open Knowledge Foundation
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>> Dear Mark and  Michelle,
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>> Thank you for your responsiveness to NGOsource’s ED process. We are pleased to inform you that we have completed our analysis, and were able to certify that your organization is equivalent to a U.S. public organization. An ED certificate for your organization is available in the NGOsource repository, and immediately available to our member grantmakers for a small processing fee (and with no further effort on your part).
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>> Open Knowledge Foundation’s Equivalency Determination certification is valid through December 31, 2018.
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>> We appreciate your time and hope this ED facilitates greater support for your organization (see attached). Please note that the ED certificate is not available for organizations at this time, therefore, please utilize the attached document for your records.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Kevin
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>> Kevin Ryan
>> Director of Operations:  NGOsource   :  TechSoup
>> kryan at techsoup.org <mailto:kryan at techsoup.org> | www.ngosource.org <http://www.ngosource.org/> | www.techsoup.org <http://www.techsoup.org/>
>> O: +1.415.633.9326 <tel:(415)%20633-9326>  M:  +1.843.480.7538 <tel:(843)%20480-7538>
>> Skype: kevin.ryan.81
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