[Chapter-delegates] [European-chapters] ISOC 2022 Action Plan

['Andrew Sullivan']

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 12:22:04PM +0100, Richard Hill wrote:
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>Can you please remind use, for comparison, what the budget is for Chapters
>(that is, the grants to Chapters)?

Well, those are two different questions, and both are more complicated to answer than is the case of the amicus program.

As I noted, the amicus program is a board-designated fund, so it's fairly straightforward to extract its maximum possible investment.  But that money includes the money spent on personnel to implement the work, except the minimal staff time to engage with the outside firm who would do the actual writing of any amicus brief.

So, if we really want to do an apples:apples comparison, we'd have to allocate the staff time devoted to chapters as well.

But, to answer the question as you asked it in the second place, there is the chapter admin funding, which is currently up to 3500/chapter (so this amounts to a little more than $450,000).  Also reserved to chapters is the Beyond the Net funding available from the Foundation, which can be seen in the Foundation Action Plan available at https://www.isocfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Foundation_2022_Action_Plan.pdf.  The numbers are a little hard to read unless you look at pp 22 and 23 at the same time, but BtN will be funded to $725,000 at the beginning of 2022.  So the total budgeted, dedicated direct chapter grants in 2022 is a little under $1.2MM.  But, as I noted, that does not include any staff costs, even though we have staff devoted to supporting chapters. It also does not include any of the other grants (to which chapters can also apply -- some have been successful with that path).

Hope that helps,

A

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