[Sca-cooks] Re: What would you do?

[Terry Decker]

The determination of whether or not it is an SCA activity is, did the
seneschal sanction it as an SCA activity?  The seneschal is the corporation
executive and deciding on which activities the group officially does or does
not support is part of the function of the office.

An individual or a group of individuals can solicit money for any reason
they choose, support the Red Cross, support the SCA, support al-Queda.  The
solicitation may or may not be illegal in and of itself.  The individuals
may or may not commit fraud.  As long as the benefitting organization is not
actively or passively party to the solicitation and is only the recipient of
the funds after the fact, there should be no problem.

If a person who is an officer of the corporation is involved in such a
solicitation, there is a quaestion as to whether they are acting as an
individual or as a corporate officer, and it opens the door to some
potentially nasty legal snarls.  Therefore, corporate officers should not
participate in private fund raising,

Bear


>Actually I'm glad you asked this here. Like Bear, I would have assumed
>that there would be no restrictions on fundraising activities, assuming
>they weren't illegal by mundane law. I did wonder though whether
>someone raising money on their own for  the SCA or an SCA group or
>activity, could advertise that that was the purpose of their effort
>without crossing the line of making it an SCA sponsored activity.
>
>I will be adding this info to the fundraising-msg file in the
>Florilegium so that others can make use of this info.
>
>Stefan