This GitHub Organization is in place for keeping track of information related to the formation and ongoing operation of our Nevada Nonprofit Corporation.
The Innovate for Vegas Foundation is a Nevada Nonprofit Corporation and a 501(c)(3) public charity formed in June 2022.
Our Purpose: To enable and encourage ideation, innovation, and implementation to make our communities better.
We have three organizations on GitHub which are directly related to our Foundation, including this one. Are you in the right place?
You are here.
https://github.com/InnovateForVegasFdn
There is a normal website associated, which is hosted on GitHub using GitHub Pages.
This GitHub Organization is for Nonprofit Corporation repositories, for documents and tools that are oriented toward operating our Foundation with transparency and clarity.
Our Activity Organization, located at
https://github.com/InnovateForVegas
There is a normal website associated, which is hosted on GitHub using GitHub Pages.
This is the original GitHub Organization for our Foundation, and continues to be the main focus of our Civic Volunteer Activities, holding our Initiatives and all related repositories and Team structure.
Our Sandbox Organization.
https://github.com/InnovateForVegasXYZ
There is a normal website associated, which is hosted on GitHub using GitHub Pages.
For those new to GitHub and use of git in general, this is an organization is a place to become familiar, or to try out ideas that may impact repositories or organization configuration, so that these may be done “safely” without disrupting the work of others.
Self-hosted tools for Initiative Development, website and more information forthcoming…
As of 16 June 2022, the Code for Vegas Foundation formed as a Nevada Nonprofit Corporation, and is renaming itself to the Innovate for Vegas Foundation, which you may refer to casually as Innovate for Vegas and at the public website, innovateforvegas.org, but which conducts business as Innovate for Vegas Foundation.
As of 12 October 2022, we have received our 501(c)(3) determination from the IRS. Note that during our legal name-change process, that some financial transactions and documentation will refer to our organization as the Code for Vegas Foundation until all aspects of our legal name change and records updates are completed.
As of 17 November 2022, our GitHub Team for nonprofit status was approved and we changed our GitHub Organization name from CodeForVegas to InnovateForVegas. There is a legacy CodeForVegas organization that we will maintain to avoid errant commits and other confusion, directing those looking for us to our new org url here.
