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It's worth pointing out that both ALA/LITA and DLF/CLIR would allow Code4Lib to work with them as our fiscal sponsor for a few years, in the lead-up to creating a legal entity of our own, should we decide we want to. Neither requires a long-term agreement. And (having served on the fiscal continuity working group, but speaking *only for myself*), I think this is a far better option than trying to jump right into forming our own nonprofit right out of the gate. For one thing, it comes with the possibility of having a sponsorship in place in time for the 2019 conference. Someone who worked more closely on the nonprofit option for our report is welcome to correct me, but it seems to me (from what I remember from our discussions, writing/editing the document, and also some work I've done with other potential nonprofits in the past) that jumping through those legal hoops takes a whole lot of time and effort. If people are really excited about forming a nonprofit of our own, I certainly wouldn't stand in the way. It isn't a bad option. But I believe it carries the same shorter-term risks as the "do nothing" option: we could fail to find a temporary sponsoring organization for 2019, and I believe it is probably more than we need to do, right this second. The fiscal sponsorship model seems to me like our best bet, especially as a first step into getting more organized. As our fiscal sponsor, ALA/LITA or DLF/CLIR (or, yeah, OLF) could take the EBSCO payments mentioned earlier in the thread, as well as letting us receive grants and donations that are only available to nonprofit entities. They could give us financial and organizational continuity that we lack, and neither organization has expressed any interest in telling us how to run our affairs; quite the opposite, in fact. And, to be clear: I believe the "do nothing" option is wildly irresponsible and asking too much of future conference committees; it does not give us a reasonable risk mitigation model. Under the current model, we risk losing our conference forever due to a natural or legal disaster (imagine something like Hurricane Katrina or the NC bathroom bill, happening mid-way through conference planning, one year). We only get to have conferences as a legal non-entity, right now, because we have a solid track record of not ever losing money--and talk to any former conference chair about how much pressure *that* puts on them. We've been lucky to avoid disaster, and going with the "do nothing" option is basically just assuming we will somehow keep avoiding disasters, forever. Because, if we fail to meet our financial obligations with a temporary sponsor? That's going to make it *really* difficult to find other temporary sponsors. Again, I speak only for myself, and I don't speak as clearly as I probably would under better personal circumstances. You're getting the best I've got to give, this week. - Coral