Shannon Des Roches Rosa's
writing and interviews are featured on the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
The Wall Street Journal,
Redbook,
PBS Parents,
SF Weekly,
Autism Speaks,
SF Gate,
AOL News, and
Shot of Prevention. She has edited several anthologies and contributed stories to numerous books, including the award-winning
My Baby Rides the Short Bus. She also writes about autism, parenting,
evidence-based approaches,
iPads,
vaccines, and
geekery at
www.Squidalicious.com, as BlogHer.com's
contributing editor for parenting kids with special needs, and as a co-founder and editor of
The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism. She is also one of
CafeMom's autism experts, and is one of
Babble.com's Top 25 Autism Bloggers. Shannon's radio interviews on autism, parenting, and blogging include
KQED Forum,
KCUR Central Standard, and
News Talk KIRO. She has been a speaker at several conferences, including
BlogHer and
UCSF Developmental Disabilities. Shannon and her son Leo were featured in Apple's
iPad: Year One video, which was introduced by Steve Jobs at
Apple's iPad2 Keynote in San Francisco. She, her handsome husband, and their three capricious children live near San Francisco.
Jennifer Byde Myers is a writer, editor, and parent of a child with autism. She has been writing since 2003 at
www.jennyalice.com,
chronicling her family’s journey from diagnosis to daily living with
her son’s special needs. She is a founder and editor of The Thinking
Person’s Guide to Autism. Her writing has been featured at
Salon.com,
Autism Speaks, and in several books including
My Baby Rides the Short Bus. Jennifer has been interviewed on NPR, most recently on
Forum with Michael Krasny, and is a Parenting.com
Must-Read Mom.
She lives on the San Francisco peninsula with her supportive husband,
two wily children, and a dog named Gus. Follow her on Twitter at
@jennyalice.
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Thanks for asking. We have an EIN, 45-2413528 and
incorporated in June of 2011. We did not meet the filing threshold in 2011, and
therefore were not required to file a form 990. We used an outside company to
help us file our non-profit, and were just informed at the beginning of January
2014 that our articles of incorporation were missing. This means that the outside company did not
forward the document to the IRS until about January 15, 2014. It had been our understanding
that we had filed all of the paperwork, and were waiting for our final letter
of determination.
Usually a non-profit files once they have met the threshold
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