 Cherry Fund On December 18, 2018 I sent an email to the President of the Cherry Fund Allen Sexton requesting him supply me with a copy of the organizations 2017 taxes. I asked him if we could arrange a time to meet to pick them up in person rather than showing up at the address listed with the IRS (which by law he would have had to supply me with a copy immediately) Rather I also gave him an option to send a copy of the organizations taxes within the 30 days required by law. As of this posting there has been no response from any of the board members and nor have they responded to any requests made by either my attorney or myself. Why? Why not just disclose the pubic forms as required by law when requested of them - all non-profit organizations are required to follow this, I mean the longer Allen and his board ignores these requests the more and more it appears they have something to hide - I mean why not then right? As a longtime advocate of the HIV/AIDS community, a person living with HIV, a former Trustee for the National Association of People With AIDS, I must ask The Cherry Fund, why they continue to ignore these very simple requests. Since they have continued to refuse providing this information and as a member of the community they support I feel obligated to bring light to this. My professional beef aside for the moment (see previous post "In Good Faith, I Am Unable To Support The Cherry Funds Executive Board This Year & Here’s Why..." To this day a number of requests have resulted in not one dollar amount being accounted for by any independent agency. To my knowledge this organization has yet to even conduct any type of accounting audit so when asked multiple times about supplying their tax returns and they continue to ignore these requests they themselves cast a shadow upon themselves. A simple response including the information I've requested - nothing of which any non-profit organization must provide upon request would have silenced my inquiry instead they refused pushing me to once again publicly cry out asking for this information. Allen, you are making it appear that your efforts - something about your efforts are shady otherwise you'd release the information I've requested. Why do you continue to refuse this request? If once again calling you out publicly is the way to get you to act then here you go. Stop your partying for a moment and submit to your business responsibilities. Additionally, to the entire Board of Directors - you too have been requested to supply this information and you too have rejected these requests. The organization you apparently fight for is not being maintained in the best interest of the organization and due to each of your decisions to ignore these requests some sort of oversight should be implemented and until this accountability is complete, I urge the District of Columbia, Cherrys sponsors even the volunteers to withhold your support until a public accountability is conducted. Gosh this would have all been prevented had you just responded to our numerous requests. So what do you say, care to release financials prior to this year’s party - maybe clear this up quickly? Still awaiting your response. Tom Below you'll find the email sent to Allen and the notice that was published to each Board of Directors Facebook Page requesting the same information.  
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