As I told you in class on Wednesday, I will be out today.

This will be your first time with a substitute, so please make me proud by completing your assignment in class and not getting distracted. Doing so will be the mark of the mature, responsible, entreprenuerial students that I know you are!

Work with your business team to investigate what is required to start a non-profit or worker cooperative business in Virginia. You'll be using the web as your resource, and answering such questions as:

1. What is required to start any kind of business in Virginia?
2. What forms need to be completed? Where do they need to be filed?
3. What exactly is a non-profit organization? How do you establish your enterprise as a non-profit?
4. What is a worker cooperative? Does Virginia law recognize this kind of business category? If not, how can you establish one?

Unlike like with our last assignment, you won't be handed any resource here where you can simply copy and paste answers. This is real project based learning. You'll have to do the heavy lifting of real, open ended investigation.

Submit a PDF containing your investigation results to the Canvas How to Start a Business in Virginia by the end of class.

Have fun! See you next Tuesday.

Last week we choose business teams for the businesses we will create.

• Yamilet, Alejandra, Alexander and Jhon: The GoGo Foods worker cooperative.
• Zander, Noah, Peyton and Julian: The Eco Print worker cooperative.
• Madi, Molly, Jeidy and Ami: LAWARE (a 501c3 organiation).
• Avion, Mustapha, Hik, Aura and Darling: The Mental Healing Foundation (a 501c3 organization).

Today in class you will decide on:

1. the focus of your business.
2. whether it is a worker cooperative or a non-profit.
3. the name of your business.

You will then begin to conduct some research on the process to start your kind of business in Virginia.