Purposeful Pennies for registering as a student organization of Pitt

On Friday October9, President (Jonathan), Vice-president (Khurram), and Business manager and director (Aya) had a small meeting for discussing the idea of registering Purposeful Pennies as a Pitt student organization. The Student Organization Resource Center (SORC) at the University of Pittsburgh provides a administrative service for student organization. Until now, the SORC certifies over 400 student organizations to officially operate and provides information and resources.

http://www.sorc.pitt.edu/

The benefits and intentions of SORC certified organizations fit our needs.

First, it provides a formal organizational form that gave our group credibility and transparency.
Second, it offers bank account and Pitt web acount which will help us initiate formal fundraising event outside the campus. We can also create our own webpage.
Third, it helps us be freed from the complicated legal adminitration process of registering for 501C(3) organization. In other words, we can work in a more flexible way under the certification of University of Pittsburgh.
Fourth, we will be freed from the funding support issues and do our activities independently. We do not want to get an official funding from outside for administration cost or any other reaons. GSPIA student organization certification is mainly aiming at providing financial funding, whereas SORC student organization is mainly focused on providing services for establishing official credibility and certification. This is the reason we want the SORC student organization form instead of GSPIA student organization form.

On Tuesday, October 13, President (Jonathan) and Vice-president (Khurram) had a meeting with Dr. Kearns to ask him take charge of the full-time faculty advisor position for PPs. He gladly accepted our suggestion. Once PPs official executive committee meeting confirms this idea of SORC certified student organization form on Saturday November 7, we will officially request his signature for the SORC certified student organization application form.