from last KD: "We are focusing on making NIOS legitimate if someone wants to use it when were gone. So please let us know what you think."

Guru Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

As you asked what we think, I will submit humble thougths...

Maybe it is enough and more proper to work through ISKCON organization than to register another association. Is ISKCON not an organisation through which such kind of activities NIOS performs could be performed. Of course, I do not know all the details. Maybe thorugh ISKCON that cannot be done.
But if it can, then way spend time and in registering another organisation  ?

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Your servant Namacarya das

     AGTSP   paoho.   Well, there is the general ISKCON which is a movement like the communist movement or the ecology movement, and of course we would feel that any sane person could work through that movement. Then there are the institutional ISKCON organizations. The majority are local ISKCON temples in USA, India and other parts of the world. Specifically the USA ISKCON Temples are all IRS tax exempt 501(c)3 tax exempt Church corporations. So, practically speaking immediately they can have no deep relation with any university because they are churches. For this reason Srila Prabhupada started such groups as the Bhaktivedanta Insitute which is educational and not religious in both form and substance. We would be glad to work with the BI, but for one thing is is hard science focused and we are more cultural and literary. So we registered NIOS in January 2004 following in Srila Prabhupada's footsteps for this kind of educational work.

O.K?