Financials and Legal
at Four Quarters
For those of us working behind the scenes, the financial aspects of
operating a non-profit are perhaps the most challenging. We try to make the financial
realities accessible for the membership and guests, because it is they who in the end
support Four Quarters. With their Fees, Memberships, Pledges and Gifts.
Finding sources of funding to support a non-profit is an important and never-ending task,
but just as important is open accountability for the use to which those funds are put,
once received. Many of us came to an EarthReligous perspective out of disappointment with
the practices of some more Mainstream Religious Organizations, and as often as not, that
disappointment was with financial accountability. And even within Alternative Religious
Organizations, it is all too common that matters of money are not openly discussed, or the
relationship between the non-profit and its privately-held sister organization is not
revealed.
We believe it is of utmost importance that any non-profit operate within the following
principles:
*That you be assured your financial support is received by a true non-profit.
*That your support will not inure to the private profit of any individual.
*That your support will be accounted for with the professionally-accepted principles of
non-profit accounting practice.
*That the organization in no way acts to "feed business" to a privately-held,
for-profit business, especially if officers of the non-profit have an ownership interest
in that business.
We are proud of the efforts that this Church has made to make our financial process as
open as possible, and our ongoing work towards achieving these goals. As time goes by, we
learn more about non-profit operations and we will continue do our best to put it into
practice.
It is our goal to become a standard of excellence in the administration of an
EarthReligous non-profit.
We believe you have the right to nothing less from any non-profit organization that you
choose to support.
The Board of Directors
The Church of Four Quarters
Sacrifice, Ceremony and
Celebration
Joining the World of Spirit and the World of Today
a Work of Years... Stone by Stone
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