An organization's Certificate of Incorporation is a document filed under State Law to establish it as a legal entity in its own right and sets forth the purposes and limitations of the corporation.

The corporate form itself is a away for a group of individuals to join together and limit their personal liability for actions brought against the enterprise. Without this protection very few ventures would ever get off the ground since any individual's risk would vastly outweigh his or her potential compensation. This is particularly true in case of charitable activities, where individual participants have no expectation of financial profit.

Once an organization has been formally incorporate it is regarded as an "artificial person" under the law and can make contracts in its own name and outlive the natural human life-span of its founders.

As a New York State Not-For-Profit Corporation the Officers and Directors of The Institute are protected from personal liability for the debts of The Institute as long as they fulfill their obligation to protect the public's interest in the charitable operation of The IEUC under New York State law.

Some of the language in our certificate refers to The Internal Revenue Code and expressly limits The Institute to those actions consistent with our being treated as a tax exempt nonprofit entity under Federal Law.

In New York State, an organization's Filing Receipt establishes its "Exist Date" which formally marks its founding.

The most crucial piece of documentation that any not-for-profit corporation can provide is its letter of determination granting it, its tax exempt status.

This letter establishes that we were classified as a Public Charity at the end of our Advance Ruling Period.

An organization's Bylaws provide its basic procedure and rules of operation.

They are constrained by the organization's Certificate of Incorporation and often further expand on its limitations by providing additional safeguards against any inappropriate actions by Officers and Directors.

Often they provide explicit protections of these individuals to insure that as long as they perform their duties in good faith and exercise due diligence in protecting the organization's interests they will be reimbursed for outlays made on the organization's behalf and that they will be defended by the organization if they ever get sued.

Our Bylaws consist of standard legal language for a New York State not-for-profit corporation and are thus representative of those in use by many similar organizations.

The Institute adheres to the highest ethical standards and has therefore adopted a formal policy to govern any cases where a potential conflict of interests might arise between the personal interests of our personnel and those of our organization. Since not every potential conflict materializes into an actual conflict and since the existence of a conflict per se does not necessarily mean that it is in the best interests of the organization to abandon the course of action leading to it, we have established a number of procedures set forth in this policy to insure that we do the right on a case by case basis.

We are offering the disclosure form cited in the policy as a separate download since it was subsequently updated.

This is the final formatted disclosure form we have adopted for use in conjunction with our Conflict of Interest Policy.

This Cumulative Annual Report contains a full disclosure of all expenditures made through December 31, 2004 along with a wealth of information on our plans and philosophy.

It covers the periods of June 24, 2002 to November 21, 2002 before we were incorporated; our incorporation date of November 22, 2002 through December 31, 2002; January 1, 2003 through December 31, 2003; and January 1, 2004 through December 31, 2004.

Our 2005 Annual Report covers the 2005 calendar year. It reflects our outstanding debt from all previous expenditures as of 12/31/05, and looks forward to activities taking place in the first half of 2006.

Our 2006 Annual Report covers the 2006 calendar year. It reflects our outstanding debt from all previous expenditures as of 12/31/06, and looks forward to activities taking place in the first half of 2007.

The IEUC Board of Directors recent approved the following motion:

"The IEUC Annual Reports should be released each summer to cover (1) the prior Calendar Year's Financials as reported in our 990-EZ informational returns and (2) the prior Academic Year's Research and Outreach Activities, starting with a 2007 / 2008 Academic Year Annual Report to cover our 2007 Financial Reporting along with other activities of the Fall 2007 Academic Semester and the Spring 2008 Academic Semester."

This is our 2003 return. It was prepared in-house by Mr. Wasilko based on his reading of the IRS Instructions and advice from a colleague in the Bar.

This is our 2004 return. It was prepared by an accountant we no longer use.

This form requested a change of accounting method to put us on the accrual basis to better reflect our finances. It was prepared by an accountant we no longer use.

This is our 2005 return. It was prepared by an accountant we no longer use.

This is our 2006 return. It was prepared by an accountant we no longer use.

We will be uploading our recent 2007 990-EZ's very soon.

Our 2008 990-EZ will be prepared in early 2009 after the customary lag to wait for the IRS to release final forms & instructions and for final 2007 bills & donations to arrive in the post.

It gives us the greatest pleasure to announce our publication of, The National Security Agency’s Data Mining Effort by John Brantley Halstead, the first in an occasional series of Public Policy Analysis papers.

Abstract: Thanks to the personal sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, much of the current world terrorist activity occurs outside of the United States. Thanks to intelligence and law enforcement, we are currently able to prevent terrorism from within our borders. Unfortunately the tremendous result of terrorism occurring elsewhere has removed the reality of terrorism from some of the public’s thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes. Because of intelligence, law enforcement, and the armed forces’ effectiveness, we are often insulated from a simple reality. The nation is currently conducting operations, while guarding most of our personal privacy, against an enemy who knows no national boundaries and is fanatically committed to the destruction of our nation.

The use of Data Mining by the National Security Agency to process communications logs and identify patterns of activity associated with the activities of terrorist networks may well be a key element in this ongoing success. However, it has proven highly controversial in the media and raises legitimate questions from privacy advocates. Fundamental to the NSA debate is an understanding of what data mining is and isn’t.

Given the timely nature of this topic and the lack of any appreciable substantive media coverage of the true nature of the technology behind this important public policy debate, we have invited a data mining expert, John Brantley Halstead of The United States Military Academy at West Point to prepare this Public Policy Analysis. In it you will find an approachable nonpartisan introduction to this key End User Computing Application along with an exploration of what questions the public should be asking as it evaluates the appropriateness of the use of this powerful tool in the Global War on Terror.