We a company in support of a project. Back in 1971 the US government in the form of the Department of The Army Projects Administration paid for many projects at the college level. You know some of our developments, the Internet, relational databases even the first Internet commerce. Today we help commerce to raise money to support the first relational / physical archive. We do everything from high end graphics and programing all the way to the other end helping small entrepreneurs make it with new products. A large portion of our staff and volunteers have other jobs with large prestigious companies. They all come together to help preserve the collection. From Theater to Music, Films to News, if man makes it we archive the information. We also provide that information to students, researchers and companies that offer that information to the general public free of charge, such as on the web, broadcast news. . . Its not odd for use to be buying raw materials to finished goods. We love to trade our work for yours. We tend to deal in giving gifts for tax donations and deal in the interesting field of tax multipliers within the USA. A tax multiplier is a method to take $1000 and turn it into a donation in kind of more then $1, 000 typically from $5, 000 to $10, 000. Its legal, takes work but general helps out a charity. The easy one is to ask a charity what it needs say carpet, which it has priced at the local stores and finds the cheapest to be $10 a yard. You make a deal with a carpet manufacture to buy a top end close out which you donate to 20 locations. . . You paid $2 a yard for 10 truck loads, gave it to 20 location and if they need to replace it they would have to spend $20 to get something as good in the stores. . . Well a lot more technical things need to be done and you have to figure out what to deduct but from the choices its not the $2 a yard you paid, depending on how its done its the replacement value of $20 a yard. In anycase you can feel good that the charity has great carpet and well you and a bunch of people did the installation and paid for the party. Did you make money, no but at the end of the day you had more money because you did not have to send it away and another factor kicked in. . . You might pay a lesser percentage on all your money, so if you plan it right and it might take adding another truck, but you save a percentage across the board.
