How to create a non-profit organization

[Pacun]

How would you create a non-profit company so that donations can be collected and the money will be used to build new houses (2 or 3) and donate them to poor people in Central America. We need to collect the money so that he engineer with the technology can go and build the houses and get local help.

[Lion EA]

Start on the Charities & Non-Profits tab on IRS.gov. Also, some states have a separate entity for charities & non-profits, so do look on the state's web site, too. (CT does not, think TX does.)