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- Recruit interested persons
- Get Mailing List
- Write Articles of Incorporation
- Write Bylaws
- Get Website
- Fill out IRS Form 1023 (Application for Tax Exempt Status)
- Run completed initial filing by ChapCom
- Obtain filing fees
- File AoI and Bylaws with California Secretary of State
- File for a Tax ID number
- File for 501(c)3 status
- File for mutual benefit corporation tax exemption from the California Franchise Tax Board
- Fundraise
- Grants?
- Fees?
- About $600 plus the initial officer(s)' salary until self-sustenance projected.
