non-profit poland
Can I get a donation as a person in Poland?
<p>I want to start non-profit organisation, but don't meet all requirements for it. 
Is it legal to get a donations from people as a person?</p>

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  <p>I want to start non-profit organisation, but don't meet all
  requirements for it. Is it legal to get a donations from people as a
  person?</p>
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<p>This would be treated as a personal gift to you for tax purposes, rather than as a charitable gift, but usually it is not illegal to give or receive a gift. </p>

<p>If the gift were conditioned on being used in a particular way, it would be treated as held in trust under the law of most common law countries. Trusts are not as much a part of the legal tradition in Poland, so I don't know how it would be treated there.</p>

<p>If you solicit donations for a non-profit purpose without intending that they actually be used that way, or, at least in jurisdictions with the concept of a trust, without actually using the funds in that way, you could be prosecuted or sued for fraud or breach of fiduciary duty.</p>
