Talk:15 Percent Pledge

Proposing improvements to article
Hi there, this is J'Mill from the Fifteen Percent Pledge. I believe this article could benefit from significant additions and changes, both in content and layout. Because the changes I'm proposing are extensive, I created a new draft at User:J'Mill Wins/15PP proposed draft rather than listing all the changes individually here. But a broad summary of the changes I'm proposing is as follows:


 * Expand the lead slightly with content from the body of the article


 * Change the Foundation and Development sections to subsections within a History section, and add a Background subsection in which the text of Aurora's original Instagram post is quoted


 * Add paragraphs on Indigo Books and the organization's criticism of Target to the Development section


 * Create a new section called Activities with content about what the organization does, which does not make sense for the History section


 * Create a new section with the full list of companies that have taken the Pledge


 * Capitalize "Black" consistently throughout the article

Pinging, who has helped greatly in the past. Thanks! J&#39;Mill Wins (talk) 03:32, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Fix the overuse of in-text attribution throughout the article, per WP:INTEXT
 * Hi, I have made some edits and there is more that I plan to do after a further review of your proposed draft, the sources, and guidelines including MOS:LEAD; it may take me a few days before I can fully focus on this article, and explain any proposed changes not incorporated. Thank you, Beccaynr (talk) 04:36, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for starting to implement my request! Have you had a chance to take another look at the draft? Any further help you can give here would be much appreciated. J&#39;Mill Wins (talk) 19:05, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi, I conducted research and made a variety of revisions and additions to the article a few days ago, and made a few additional edits today, but I have not had a chance to focus on writing an explanation based on guidelines and policies to better explain my edits, i.e. per WP:ORG, as well as my interpretation of WP:INTEXT, and WP:PROMOTION. I also left some feedback in edit summaries for revisions I made on the draft. Overall, I have edited the article in an attempt to maintain a chronological order, and to make that more clear based on the information available from the sources. Please let me know if you have questions or specific concerns about the article, because it will likely be easier for me to respond to specifics than to try to compose a larger overview explanation. Thank you, Beccaynr (talk) 20:58, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Tax exempt status
Apologies if my edits were misplaced, but can someone kindly confirm that this entity has 501(c)(3) status per the Internal Revenue Service? I understand it is a non profit, but do not currently see support for 501(c)(3) status, in contradiction of the Wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:1261:C2B0:3567:94E4:D665:DDF1 (talk) 01:20, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Sources in the article include: How Aurora James Took the 15 Percent Pledge From an Instagram Post to a 501(c)(3) (Elle, 2020) and This Instagram post could unlock hundreds of millions of dollars for Black-owned businesses (CNBC, 2020), and as to the Foundation's website, in the Donate section, there is information about the 501(c)(3) fiscal depository for donations above $250, with more information here, and for smaller donations, there is information about a different nonprofit donation processor here, which links here. Beccaynr (talk) 01:47, 4 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Thank you. But the tax id number is for Philanthropic Ventures Foundation, which is the same entity identified as the “fiscal depository”.  This is not the same thing as simply a payment processor.  Further, the tax id number listed for the webpage is explicitly for a different entity altogether (the same “Philanthropic Ventures Foundation”).  So is the Fifteen Percent Pledge a 501(c)(3) or not?  The IRS has no record of the Fifteen Percent Pledge.  Is it a DBA?  A subsidiary of another nonprofit?  Presumably it is a legally formed entity, but it does not itself appear to have 501(c)(3) status, therefore the designation on the main page should change.2600:1700:1261:C2B0:3567:94E4:D665:DDF1 (talk) 02:05, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
 * My understanding, per PVF's website, is that PVF acts as the fiscal depository for select organizations in the process of receiving 501(c)(3) status, and the 15 Percent Pledge is currently listed there. However, the 15 Percent Pledge is registered as a nonprofit in NY, DOS entity number is #5759778. There appears to be no reliable journalism available to confirm the 501(c)(3) status, so in the meantime, I will adjust the article to reflect the NY nonprofit status. Beccaynr (talk) 03:41, 4 October 2021 (UTC)