{"id":920,"date":"2025-05-08T22:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T04:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lightwardbound.org\/Main\/?page_id=920"},"modified":"2025-06-18T17:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T23:24:19","slug":"legal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lightwardbound.org\/Main\/legal\/","title":{"rendered":"LWB Legal Status"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lightward Bound is registered with the State of Utah as a sole proprietorship. That means that it is one individual (me) doing business as Lightward Bound. I operate it as a not-for-profit organization, so far, using my own resources to do everything from run the website to set up booths at public events. I have received small amounts of volunteer help for recent events, as well. But as an individual, alone, I will not be able to accomplish the mission of Lightward Bound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To fully carry out the organization&#8217;s mission, it will take many people and finances beyond my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The long-term goal is to build the organization as a non-profit corporation and eventually have it receive 501(c)(3) status with IRS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please contact me if you believe in the <a href=\"\/Main\/about\/mission\">mission<\/a> and want to help build the organization. Thank you,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emil Therianos,<br>Founder, Lightward Bound<br><a href=\"mailto:emil-01@lightwardbound.org\">E-mail: emil-01@lightwardbound.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NOTE: Because the organization is not yet tax-exempt, any donations you make to Lightward Bound are not tax-deductible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightward Bound is registered with the State of Utah as a sole proprietorship. That means that it is one individual (me) doing business as Lightward Bound. I operate it as a not-for-profit organization, so far, using my own resources to do everything from run the website to set up booths at public events. I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-920","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightwardbound.org\/Main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightwardbound.org\/Main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightwardbound.org\/Main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightwardbound.org\/Main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightwardbound.org\/Main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lightwardbound.org\/Main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/lightwardbound.org\/Main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/920\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightwardbound.org\/Main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}