<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Quite a good point to raise early and cap. We have all seen administrative costs that were a majority of the budget. Bringing disrespect and waste to an otherwise good cause.</DIV>
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<DIV>I assume here the offer was meant pro bono.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 12/11/09, Jacqueline A. Morris <I><jam@jacquelinemorris.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Jacqueline A. Morris <jam@jacquelinemorris.com><BR>Subject: RE: [governance] IGC All members should opine: this is important<BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org, "'Sivasubramanian Muthusamy'" <isolatedn@gmail.com>, "'Ginger Paque'" <gpaque@gmail.com><BR>Cc: ca@cafonso.ca, "'Jeremy Malcolm'" <jeremy@ciroap.org>, "'Fouad Bajwa'" <fouadbajwa@gmail.com><BR>Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 1:47 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>For funding purposes, the IGC could get a formal organization to act as a<BR>fiscal body for receipt of funds. I have done this for other funded<BR>projects.<BR>Jacqueline<BR><BR>-----Original Message-----<BR>From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy [mailto:<A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=isolatedn@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:isolatedn@gmail.com">isolatedn@gmail.com</A>] <BR>Sent: Friday, 11 December 2009 09:38 AM<BR>To: <A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=governance@lists.cpsr.org" ymailto="mailto:governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</A>; Ginger Paque<BR>Cc: <A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ca@cafonso.ca" ymailto="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca">ca@cafonso.ca</A>; Jeremy Malcolm; Fouad Bajwa<BR>Subject: Re: [governance] IGC All members should opine: this is important<BR><BR>Hello,<BR><BR>On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Ginger Paque <<A
href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=gpaque@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:gpaque@gmail.com">gpaque@gmail.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> (2) Independent and Constitutional Bodies, including Election<BR>> Commissions, Ombudsman Institutions, National Human Rights<BR>> Institutions and other independent governance bodies, for project<BR>> proposals facilitating the inclusion of the voice of civil society.<BR>> (3) Global and Regional inter-government bodies, organizations and<BR>> associations other than the United Nations, for project proposals which<BR>> strengthen the voice of civil society.<BR><BR>IGC would fit into this categories if the cover letter is descriptive enough<BR><BR><A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ca@cafonso.ca" ymailto="mailto:ca@cafonso.ca">ca@cafonso.ca</A> wrote:<BR><BR>> I do not think we can get funding unless we have an institutional base.<BR><BR>Largely true. But we still can get
funding from business corporations<BR>some of us are connected to. We may have to reach out on a personal<BR>level to make the Donor company understand that the IGC is an<BR>organization though not incorporated as a non-profit body.<BR><BR>>This could be an umbrella organization, of which formally the IGC would be<BR>a<BR>> project or program.<BR><BR>Not necessarily. The Internet Governance Caucus is already an<BR>organization by itself. What needs to be done, if it suits the IGC, is<BR>to formalize the Caucus as a Civil Society Organization which may be<BR>by registering the IGC as an International non-profit organization or<BR>a Society. But does it suit the IGC to go through these steps?<BR><BR>Sivasubramanian Muthusamy<BR><BR>> Citando Jeremy Malcolm <<A href="http://us.mc839.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jeremy@ciroap.org" ymailto="mailto:jeremy@ciroap.org">jeremy@ciroap.org</A>>:<BR>><BR>> On funding sources for the IGC, the UN
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