<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 August 2014 13:14, Suresh Ramasubramanian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" target="_blank">suresh@hserus.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>...</div><div><br></div><div>Non profit tax exempt status lets you receive funding for, for example, co co travel, day to day expenses of operating IGC etc, but there is of course a bit (ha) of bookkeeping you will be stuck with.<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>This aspect (not the bookkeeping necessarly) needs to be part of the "way forward" discussion.</div><div>Deirdre</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="auto"><div><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 23-Aug-2014, at 22:35, Deirdre Williams <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" target="_blank">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Thank you for the comment Suresh. Can anyone clarify these points?<div>Deirdre</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 August 2014 12:50, Suresh Ramasubramanian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:suresh@hserus.net" target="_blank">suresh@hserus.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Is IGC registered as a non profit somewhere? The funds would be best held in that jurisdiction, to satisfy tax norms. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Registering a 501 c3 and getting tax exemption is rather complicated stateside, maybe it is easier in say Geneva?<br><br>--srs (iPad)</div><div><div><div><br>On 23-Aug-2014, at 21:57, Deirdre Williams <<a href="mailto:williams.deirdre@gmail.com" target="_blank">williams.deirdre@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px">Dear Colleagues,</span></div><div style="font-size:13.333333969116211px">
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</font><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We just received confirmation that <font face="sans-serif"> the IGC has been allocated Bilateral Room 1 (Rumeli -1 Level / Room 9)</font> <span style="font-family:sans-serif"> for Friday, 5 September, 12.30 - 14.00 for our meeting in part due to lack of availability of an adequate time slot on an earlier day in the week. On the other hand, a</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif"> meeting on the last day will also give us an opportunity to share impressions of this year's IGF.</span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="sans-serif">We are proposing to add to the agenda the web-hosting for the IGC, and an appropriate arrangement to hold IGC funds. If you won't be present at the meeting could you please send any suggestions you may have? We can brainstorm possible solutions for presentation to the list for discussion and approval.</font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="sans-serif">Therefore the agenda now looks like:</font></div>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="sans-serif">Way forward for the IGC (with possible action items for re-focusing and re-energizing IGC) </font></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font face="sans-serif">Web hosting arrangements</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="sans-serif">Alternative to Paypal for IGC funds</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font face="sans-serif">Review of this year's IGF from a civil society perspective</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<font face="sans-serif">Looking forward to seeing you there</font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:13px"><font face="sans-serif">Mawaki and Deirdre</font></div>
<div style="font-size:13px"><font face="sans-serif">Co-coordinators.</font></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge" Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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