[Chapter-delegates] On funding dedicated to chapters

[Andrew Sullivan]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 09:04:14AM +0300, Hank Nussbacher via Chapter-delegates wrote:

>Yet when viewing the Internet Foundation pages among them: 
>https://www.isocfoundation.org/about/ there is *no* mention in how it 
>was created by the Internet Society and not even a hotlink to 
>https://www.internetsociety.org

At least when I visit the site, https://www.isocfoundation.org/about/ does in fact say, "Our work advances the vision of the Internet Society (ISOC): The Internet is For Everyone."  There's a link there back to the Internet Society's home page.

>Even the top row where there is in small font "The Internet Society" 
>rather than point to https://www.internetsociety.org it points to back 
>to itself!

Thanks for the catch!  There's been some work on both the Internet Society and Foundation pages of late, and this must have been changed by accident.  We'll fix.

>Kudos to isoc.org for having a great "contact us" page: 
>https://www.internetsociety.org/contact-us/ with numerous different 
>emails to contact yet when I try to contact the BoT or the Leadership 
>Team at the Internet Society Foundation there is just one general 
>email at the bottom of every page.

Well, the general mailbox foundation at isocfoundation.org is checked every day by someone responsible to ensure general enquiries get routed correctly.  Each funding page also has a program-specific mail for that program.  But also, the contact us page for the Internet Society (as I think Ted pointed out elsewhere in the thread) was recently updated in response to Internet Society members' feedback to include direct ways to reach the board.  The Foundation's Board of Trustees page now also includes the mail board-chair at isocfoundation.org, but that only came into effect this week.

Also, to be fair, part of the reason the Internet Society pages have such a lot of "contact us" information is because the Internet Society staff is approximately ten times that of the Foundation, so there simply are fewer points of ingress to the Foundation.

I hope that's useful.

Best regards,

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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