[Taljaard]

Good Day
We are in the process of creating a website for our Nonprofit in Georgia. The Focus of this site will be for the Afrikaans Speaking Community in the USA.
We have been told that the whole website must be in translated Engilsh also.
Is this true ?

Thanks
Dirk

[morgaine300]

Who told you this and what reason did they give?

[Taljaard]

This was told to me by the previous manager and the reason is that the IRS or GA DoR require it for the Non-profit to keep its status as a non-profit.

[morgaine300]

Well, non-profit is a specialized area that I don't do (though I was the treasurer of a small one once that didn't have a lot of requirements I had to worry about), so I tried hunting this down on the IRS website. They don't make that very easy.

The closest thing I found that may explain it is their requirement of transparency, meaning that things have to be made available to the public. I guess because 501(c)(3)'s are considered public, and also donations are tax-deductible and they have a right to know what they're donating too. The regulation I found on this didn't specifically say everything had to be in English. It had a link "for more information," which only sent me back to the main page I'd been on to begin with (useful). But it seems logical that to be transparent and make things available to the public, in this country, it would have to be in English.

(I find it amusing that a country would make a regulation about something needing to be in English when same said country seems to have qualms about making English the official language.)

[Taljaard]

Thank you that was the same that I got. We want to put the mission and the basic information in English and Afrikaans but would like to do the newsletters and daily /weekly devotional in Afrikaans only as I would then need to translate it also. Thank you Again

[morgaine300]

You're welcome.