Re: choosing a community name | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Muriel Kranowski (murielkvt.edu) | |
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2021 15:58:52 -0700 (PDT) |
Is "Pioneer Valley" still the usual name for your region, or is there any popular pushback against it? On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 5:52 PM Jerry Koch-Gonzalez < jerry [at] sociocracyforall.org> wrote: > Our legal name is Cherry Hill Condominium Association. We are known to the > world as Pioneer Valley Cohousing Community. In Massachusetts, if I > remember right, it costs $50 every five years to register our public "Doing > Business As" name. Very simple. > On the other hand, we are wondering about changing our name from Pioneer > Valley to something that does not evoke white settlers taking over > indigenous land. After 25 years, it is not easy to decide on a name change. > Jerry > To talk to me about sociocracy or NVC, go here: > https://talktojerry.youcanbook.me > > Jerry Koch-Gonzalez > Sociocracy: Effective Egalitarian Governance. > Check out our website Sociocracy For All <http://sociocracyforall.org/> > and > join our mailing list <https://www.sociocracyforall.org/newsletter-signup/ > >. > > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 9:32 AM Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I know nothing of Cohousing names. And I am trying to do some legal > things > > at a church that 150 years ago formed with a legal name they have never > > used. And we can’t do the legal work with out figuring out what our legal > > name *is*. Hours of work. Like 50-60 hours. > > > > So do something that keeps the legal name in some people’s hands and > minds > > as many years go by. > > > > Liz > > Mosaic commons Cohousing in Berlin ma. > > > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 8:51 PM Marcia Zuckerman via Cohousing-L < > > cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote: > > > > > As Bay State Commons anticipates the completion of our building, we're > > > also exploring changing our name. In this connection, we'd like to ask > a > > > question about naming — specifically, about the relationship of a > coho's > > > legal name on condo documents to the name it's known by publicly. > > > Apparently it's common cohousing practice for a coho's public and legal > > > names to be basically the same (e.g., XYZ Cohousing in public, XYZ > > > Condominium on the condo docs). In our case, we're also exploring the > > > alternative: having the legal name on condo docs be different from the > > name > > > we're known by publicly. So we'd really appreciate feedback from other > > > cohousers. > > > Is this also fairly common practice among cohos? If your community's > > legal > > > and public names are different, could you share why you did it this > way, > > > and do you have any words of experience or advice to share? Also, did > you > > > decide to make any legal provision for your public name — e.g., a > > separate > > > LLC, registering it as a Doing-Business-As name, or such? (State laws > > will > > > vary, of course.) > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > > > http://L.cohousing.org/info > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > -Liz > > (The Rev. Dr.) Elizabeth Mae Magill > > Pastor, Ashburnham Community Church > > Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries > > www.elizabethmaemagill.com > > 508-450-0431 > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > > http://L.cohousing.org/info > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://L.cohousing.org/info > > > >
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choosing a community name Marcia Zuckerman, July 15 2021
- Re: choosing a community name Sharon Villines, July 16 2021
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Re: choosing a community name Elizabeth Magill, July 16 2021
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Re: choosing a community name Jerry Koch-Gonzalez, August 7 2021
- Re: choosing a community name Muriel Kranowski, August 7 2021
- Re: choosing a community name Yochai Gal, August 7 2021
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Re: choosing a community name Jerry Koch-Gonzalez, August 7 2021
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Re: choosing a community name Fred H Olson, August 8 2021
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Re: choosing a community name Sharon Villines, August 8 2021
- Re: choosing a community name CJ Q, August 8 2021
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Re: choosing a community name Sharon Villines, August 8 2021
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