Hi, Apologies in advance for a question that will take us away from the main thread topic...
On 05/20/2014 06:15 AM, David King wrote: > Initially, I think that much of the money raised by an executive > director would go towards financially supporting the executive director > role. If the Foundation's revenues continue to drop (as has been the > case over the last few years), an executive director role would become > untenable without increased funding from sponsors. I have not been paying close attention in the past 3-4 years, but when I was, we had: * Added new members to the advisory board * Increased advisory board membership to $10,000 for small companies and $20,000 for large companies The executive director was, at the time I was on the board, the only salary outgoing, but advisory board revenues should be $140,000 unless I'm mistaken from my reading of the advisory board page - which ad board members have we lost? HP, Nokia, Motorola, Oracle from the looks of it... am I missing anyone? The theory at the time I was on the board was that ad board revenues paid for employees with a little margin for error, and we fundraised for everything else. Has that principlegone by the wayside? Also, at the time we had started to build up some cash reserves after a few years when we really did not have a lot of room to manoeuver - have we depleted those? I did not notice any budgets proposed that were in deficit, but I was not paying very close attention. Thanks, Dave. -- Dave Neary, Lyon, France Email: dne...@gnome.org Jabber: nea...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
