My only experience with this sort of thing has been negative. In anime fandom, when the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization started to expand in the early 1980s with chapters throughout the U.S. & Canada, several members insisted that the club should legally incorporate as a non-profit organization. But incorporation requires a lot of legal bookkeeping, with reports filed to the government every year. Most C/FO members were adolescents who were extremely anti-bureaucratic and refused to keep or file the necessary paperwork. So the club never did incorporate.
This is minor nitpicking, but does the American Furry Association plan to operate in America only? A more international name might have been better.
My only experience with this sort of thing has been negative. In anime fandom, when the Cartoon/Fantasy Organization started to expand in the early 1980s with chapters throughout the U.S. & Canada, several members insisted that the club should legally incorporate as a non-profit organization. But incorporation requires a lot of legal bookkeeping, with reports filed to the government every year. Most C/FO members were adolescents who were extremely anti-bureaucratic and refused to keep or file the necessary paperwork. So the club never did incorporate.
This is minor nitpicking, but does the American Furry Association plan to operate in America only? A more international name might have been better.
Fred Patten