New Worlds Project - Registered Non-profit Corporation

Registered Non-profit Corporation

Since Season II, the New Worlds Project's administration team has been working to implement a strategy plan released by Kim Leonard Smouter. The strategy plan hoped to capitalise on New Worlds Project's potential and further advance the unique approach of the administration.

With guidance from Glenn David Gregory, the co-founders drafted by-laws for the New Worlds Project non-profit corporation. These were approved by a founding committee composed of the staff at the time of writing of those by-laws.

The registration process was completed by 4 October 2006, when the authorities in Draper, Utah and Brussels, Belgium granted non-profit corporation status to New Worlds Project in both the United States and the European Union.

The by-laws have now codified New Worlds' mission:

New Worlds Project is organized exclusively for education and literary purposes.

The purpose of this corporation is:

• To improve creative writers’ writing skills by providing internet-based platforms for community-based cooperative writing.
• To facilitate interaction amongst creative writers by providing internet-based platforms for the discussion of all aspects of creative writing.
• To introduce and raise awareness of writers to the methods of “play-by-post role-playing” as a useful tool to improve the quality of creative writing.
• To develop and provide other services and tools to aid the members in writing fiction.

The Corporation was initially led by an interim Board of Directors composed of co-chairs Glenn David Gregory, Alex Perry. Additional members from Belgium, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom joined the first permanent Board on December 2006. Initial attempts to secure government funding for the initiative failed, though the corporation successfully trialled the concept in creative writing courses at a community college in Draper, Utah using a sandbox setting called Nalnath. By 2010, however, the corporation went inactive.