Dear HOT Community,
We are writing to update you on changes and challenges that are facing the HOT community and organization. NGOs often have times when there are funds to raise and plans to change. HOT is no different. We are working to improve our financial oversight and organizational development. And, we are making some changes to our policies and practices to build a more sustainable organization. Over the past 5 years, HOT has been primarily a project funded organization with no very limited unrestricted funds. This pattern and HOT’s operating costs have made it difficult to grow as quickly as we would like. We have drafted some initial plans on this front, which we hope you will help guide. Despite these challenges HOT has experienced amazing growth and an expansion of our mission, reach and importance to the global humanitarian community over the past few years through the hard work of our volunteers and staff. As we come to the end of our fiscal year in 2015 HOT has many opportunities for continued growth. We aim to provide you and the larger OpenStreetMap community with more tools and more support for the growth of local groups. In the coming weeks, we will be asking for your help to finalize and implement a fundraising plan to achieve those goals. Thanks again for your ongoing support, Heather on behalf of the HOT Board of Directors Heather Leson heatherle...@gmail.com Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com
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