Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - Fourth Week of January 2017

The Board of Directors of Unity Farm Sanctuary held its first meeting at the Unity Meeting House the 1830 ’s building on the sanctuary property.  The “board room” is the original dining room, made fromAmerican Chestnut, which no longer grows in New England due to the chestnut blight of the early 1900 ’s.  Since the floor is nearly 200 years old, not a single board is square and a marble rolls spontaneously across the floor.The Board agenda including a walking tour of the entire sanctuary property and a review of all existing survey maps, such as the one below which identifies structures, wetlands, and topography.We reviewed several important documents1. the IRS Form 1023/supplement requesting charitable status for Unity Farm Sanctuary2. an omnibus insurance package including structures, umbrella liability, animal coverage, employee coverage, and even cyber-liability coverage (since we may keep donor data)3. a financial sustainability model4. a review of infrastructure improvements done to date5. a project plan for 2017The board approved the IRS Form and insurance package.  Yesterday the IRS submission was completed and the journey to non-profit charity began.  The insurance becomes effective this week.The board also heard about the pending sanctuary animal placement requests.  We explained that poultry, alpaca/llama, and goats are relatively scalable - we can take on additional animals without huge effort.Hor...
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