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New Fee Policy = No Fees!
Integral Nutrition is now Integral Nutrition - Inner Yoga Ashram
and soon will be registered as a IRS 501(c)(3)
non-profit organization.
We have been feeling to do this for a while
and now is the time. We asked Babaji for his
opinion and he approved it. Interesting
enough, he never called our place your business or your center, he always reffered to it as "Your
Ashram" so we might as well function as
one.
We don't want people to be under the
illusion that this is a business, not that
there is anything wrong with businesses, but
a business has one goal and that is profits
and the profits are to be enjoyed by the
owners of such business, making him/her 100%
responsible for all expenses and gains.
If you can't afford the services a business
provides, unfortunately you are not to
receive such services.
So, what to
do?
By honoring the traditions of Yoga, we have decided to operate as a donation-base
only with the hope that those of you, who
have not been able to come because were not
able afford it, will be able to take
advantage of our services/classes.
We also want people to be more open hearted
and less money oriented, not that there is
anything wrong with money, but we want people
to give, not based on a fee chart, but based
on how the service, class or experience has
helped them.
Is it to idealistic? maybe
What if it doesn't work? It will
simply mean that it was not needed and/or
appreciated in this community, no hard
feelings, nothing personal, is just what is.
Best of all, any donation you make, will
be deducted
from your taxes at the end of the
year.
One question We asked the IRS was:
Can I start receiving contributions before
Form 1023 is approved? Generally, yes. The
IRS 501(c)(3) recognition is usually
retroactively effective to the earlier of 1)
the organization's legal formation or 2) the
commencement of its programs. This means that
the organization's activities are
retroactively tax-exempt and donations are
retroactively tax-deductible to the donor,
extending even to prior tax years. Under
certain circumstances, IRS tax-exemption may
only be retroactive to the date of the filing
of Form 1023.
How to make a donation?
Whether you do it by cash, check, credit card
at our place, through the phone or online, we
will send you a
receipt for you to keep track and deducted
from your taxes at the end of the
year.
Donation online:
To make a one time donation, use the
folowing button:
To make a $25 donation a month:
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