Initiative / Measure Committee – Sponsoring an Initiative Committee is pretty simple, and involves having our treasure be the treasure, or co-treasure of your Initiative Committee, and there are strict rules on how the money can be spent.  Therefore we have many policies and systems that you can incorporate into your initiative committee to immediately function in a clear structure and framework, including creating a primary Board or Core Governance Body. You typically do NOT need to form an Initiative committee if you have raised less than $1000. Because of the strict regulation and potential penalties, we have minimum fees and %’s based on your particular situation. Typically the financial requirements of overseeing government committees are twice as much as for-profits and non-profits. So if you would expect to have a 5% total incoming cost flow for a non-profit/for-profit, in a government committee it would be 10% of incoming cost flow. At $1,000 we could estimate the cost at about $100 to cover the administrative, finance, and government filing costs for your committee, but for the specific need of your particular situation we are willing for you to choose your own %. Additionally we encourage people to start with our sponsored Pre-Initiative Committee, and then we can easily transfer to a sponsored Initiative Committee once you have raised $1,000. Once you start an Initiative Committee, it can’t be stopped usually until after the elections, and a half dozen filing periods. Its a lot of work which is why we have minimum fees and costs.