<p>I want to start a community service club in my school, which will be a new non profit organization. how would i go about doing that?</p>
<p>Same here. Any advice?</p>
<p>Key Club! Club</a> Building</p>
<p>thanks, but my school already has key club. im looking to start my OWN non profit organization.</p>
<p>Why? Why not just start your own club?</p>
<p>thats what im doing. i love volunteering so i want to start my own volunteer club. aka start up a new non profit organization.</p>
<p>there is no community service club at your school?</p>
<p>there is, there is key club. but i went to this leadership camp thing for a week over spring break and we went to 3 different homeless shelters, so i want to start a non profit organization that helps out homeless people. the key club in my school just just things like relay for life and stuff.</p>
<p>why don't you try to organize something through them?</p>
<p>it's a waste of time to try to start a new club when you could be organizing the project just not under the president title</p>
<p>even if you can't do it through the key club you don't need to make a club. again it's a waste of time, just do the project. ask your friends and classmates, set up a time to meet, and get it started</p>
<p>I don't think school club=full blown nonprofit. There's lots of legal red tape with nonprofits. Do you have money for a lawyer?</p>
<p>a lawyer? no lol</p>
<p>And I agree with roses&clovers.</p>
<p>"no lol"</p>
<p>Exactly.</p>
<p>Starting an NPO requires a lot of forms. It's very hard to complete these forms without a lawyer, and that is why highschoolers don't go around making NPO's for every community service project they initiate.</p>
<p>Creating a 503(c) non profit organization is NOT easy. Especially for something as vague as "that helps out homeless people". I recommend against it, as you can either start your own separate club or go under the Key Club. But what if you spend the entire year trying to get your organization approved (waste an entire year) and they don't approve it??</p>