<div dir="ltr"><div>Great proposal. There has to be a starting point. Support for Chapters administration needs and of course activities that may need additional appraisals methods rather than just reporting.<br><br></div>
<div>Regards <br></div><div><br></div>Charles Oloo<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Imran Anwar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:imran@imran.com" target="_blank">imran@imran.com</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>I agree with the basic premise, point of view and proposed approach. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div>
<div><br></div><div>IMRAN</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Apr 23, 2013, at 22:22, Dave Burstein <<a href="mailto:daveb@dslprime.com" target="_blank">daveb@dslprime.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite">
<div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Folks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">
Great to see the board wants stronger chapters</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">"<span style="font-family:arial">Board re-affirmed that the Internet Society is a mission-driven organization, and addressed the strategic role of Chapters in the achievement of the ISOC mission. As a follow-up to this meeting, the Board agreed that Chapters are vital to advancing the mission, principles, and values of ISOC at the local and regional levels and they contribute to ensuring the organization is globally and locally engaged. The Board was sympathetic to requests by Chapters for support in their essential operations,"</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial">Let's make this real by shifting 2% of the budget ($500,000) to the chapters immediately, enough to give each chapter that applies $5-10,000 over the next 12 months. It won't transform the chapters, but is enough for 20-40 hr/month admin and/or several events with $1,000 budget and/or economy travle for 1 or 2 members to a major meeting. </span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> It's almost certainly a more efficient use of funds than hiring expensive people in DC or Geneva and flying them around the world.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> This is a "just do it" proposal to reinforce the bottom-up, multistakeholder model in the Internet Society itself. </span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> We have professional management that certainly can rearrange 2% of the budget. There's an obvious source in not filling two positions currently open on the website: one's for an economist with strong experience in fundraising </span><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/jobs/senior-economist" style="font-family:arial" target="_blank">http://www.internetsociety.org/jobs/senior-economist</a> <span style="font-family:arial"> and the second a newly created position for a marketing communications manager. </span><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/jobs/marketing-communications-manager" style="font-family:arial" target="_blank">http://www.internetsociety.org/jobs/marketing-communications-manager</a> . There's presumably ~$400-500K in the budget for those postions and related expenses. There are several other open positions with six figure salaries and expenses where the money could be more effectively spent on local programs. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> We all know that most funds that can be raised in our field come with serious strings attached; the last thing an ISOC economist or any policy person should be doing is begging interested parties for money. That job should never have been created because of the obvious influence on the policy proposed. ISOC is already fighting back against claims we're unduly influenced by multinational corporations and positions; tying policy so closely to fundraising just provides ammunition to such attacks. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> And while it might be valuable "<span style="color:rgb(46,46,46);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:17.9125px">to develop, manage, edit and review existing collateral for marketing effectiveness and adherence to brand guidelines" we already have some hard-working professionals doing that.</span> The money would be much better spent bythe chapters working directly in the field, I believe.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> Going forward, </span><span style="font-family:arial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial">I'd bet shifting 10-20% of the ISOC budget to local efforts will result in far more impact than spending the money as we now do, but that will take time to organize. </span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"> I hope chapter leaders will rise up with proposals how to make this happen and that the center can see the wisdom of being a less "top-down" group.</span></div>
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