[governance] IGC All members should opine: this is important

[Jacqueline A. Morris]

It depends on the terms of the grant/funding - some require that the
recipient of the funds (fiscal agent) be a non profit, some don't. Some have
a LOT of requirements for the organization that officially receives the
funds, some don't. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy [mailto:isolatedn at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, 11 December 2009 09:56 AM
To: jam at jacquelinemorris.com
Cc: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Ginger Paque; ca at cafonso.ca; Jeremy Malcolm;
Fouad Bajwa
Subject: Re: [governance] IGC All members should opine: this is important

Hello Jacqueline,

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Jacqueline A. Morris
<jam at jacquelinemorris.com> wrote:
> For funding purposes, the IGC could get a formal organization to act as a
> fiscal body for receipt of funds.

Would it suffice if IGC engages a Law firm or a firm of Chartered
Accountants to act on its behalf and receive funds?

I have done this for other funded
> projects.
> Jacqueline
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy [mailto:isolatedn at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, 11 December 2009 09:38 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Ginger Paque
> Cc: ca at cafonso.ca; Jeremy Malcolm; Fouad Bajwa
> Subject: Re: [governance] IGC All members should opine: this is important
>
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Ginger Paque <gpaque at gmail.com> wrote:
>> (2) Independent and Constitutional Bodies, including Election
>> Commissions, Ombudsman Institutions, National Human Rights
>> Institutions and other independent governance bodies, for project
>> proposals facilitating the inclusion of the voice of civil society.
>> (3) Global and Regional inter-government bodies, organizations and
>> associations other than the United Nations, for project proposals which
>> strengthen the voice of civil society.
>
> IGC would fit into this categories if the cover letter is descriptive
enough
>
> ca at cafonso.ca wrote:
>
>> I do not think we can get funding unless we have an institutional base.
>
> Largely true. But we still can get funding from business corporations
> some of us are connected to. We may have to reach out on a personal
> level to make the Donor company understand that the IGC is an
> organization though not incorporated as a non-profit body.
>
>>This could be an umbrella organization, of which formally the IGC would be
> a
>> project or program.
>
> Not necessarily. The Internet Governance Caucus is already an
> organization by itself. What needs to be done, if it suits the IGC, is
> to formalize the Caucus as a Civil Society Organization which may be
> by registering the IGC as an International non-profit organization or
> a Society. But does it suit the IGC to go through these steps?
>
> Sivasubramanian Muthusamy
>
>> Citando Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org>:
>>
>> On funding sources for the IGC, the UN Democracy Fund has its fourth
round
>> of
>> funding open until the end of the year.
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