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

[Richard Hill]

Dear Andrew,

Thank you very much, this is exactly the information that I was looking for.

Best,
Richard

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 12:22:04PM +0100, Richard Hill wrote:
> >
> >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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