Legal Question in Business Law in New York

Re: Cell phone drive for a foreign charity

Your answer is a resoundingly unsatisfactory IT DEPENDS.

Charitable donations like this get into questions of nonprofit status with the feds and the state. Nonprofits are a world unto themselves and this landscape must be carefully trodden to avoid penalties.

You will need the help of an attorney and of a CPA for this venture. It is, though, very doable. Hire people with whom you feel comfortable working. The attorney should practice business law; ideally, the attorney will have gone through the nonprofit certification process with other clients.

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