Is this a group connected with the Extention service? It sounds like a separate organization. The school system may have rules and requirements that your group doesn't meet. Sandy

So? All you need is a new meeting place and you can sitll be a Master Gardener Society or club and you can tell the school to (well, you know). Surely you can find a facility somewhere that will let you meet once amonth. a library, a government building, a nursery, a church or something. Maybe next time you should draft a letter of intent by both parties stating what you can and can't do and what is expected. By the way, if you decide to strike out on your own and the school has a change of heart, I would think long and hard before I changed my mind and relented. I would think with your free assistance being offered now and the monetary donations, they need you more than you need them.

We had a group, not a certified 401C3 nonprofit, but we had bylaws, paid dues, had meetings and speakers. Then the new agent decided to start having meetings (naturally at the same day/time as ours) so our group disbanned. We had a problem w/ annoying MGs who thought the $15 in dues was unacceptable, but at every meeting I saw them there at, they would make announcements for other groups that they belonged to having $50 per person dinners, etc. Michelle