[Imc-finance] more information please (was: Ford Foundation and confidence-unity issues)

[Anna]

[summary:
i ask for money details to be explained to people ton familiar with 
sponsoring in the u.s.
plus for a step by step chronology of what happened from the beginning]


please,

i've said this numerous times before, and i can see that right now other 
things are more urgent.

BUT: when explainig about u.s.-american financial stuff please think about 
the fact that these things work differently in differrent countries. since 
the u.s. situation about sponsoring/status of ngo's etc seems to be playing 
a role a lot i'd find it helpful if someone took the time to briefly 
explain stuff like

At 14:35 16.09.02 -0500, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
>  does charge a fiscal sponsorship fee for new
>funds that come through the UCIMC.

fiscal sponsorship?

>The UCIMC is a non-profit organization and when we do take a fiscal
>sponsorship fee it is among the lowest in the non-profit,
>fiscal-sponsorship realm.

non-profit organization?
fiscal sponsorship fee??

>These fees go directly into funding the
>operations of the UCIMC, paying for registration costs

registration costs?


if stuff like this is already explained somewhere i'm sorry. please let us 
know where. if not - how about setting up a page with brief information 
that can be pointed to when it comes up?

it's hard to form an opinion about all the details without understanding 
the process of financing. it might not be necessary - i don't know. but i'd 
like to be able to judge for myself.


the whole ford foundation funding process is similarly unclear to me. i'm 
really trying to catch up with all the emails but it's hard to understand 
what happened when. yes, i could go through all the lists. no, i definitely 
can't. there are other things to do as well. could please someone of the 
people more involved in this do a short(er) summary of this from the beginning?

otherwise i see myself unable to transmit this to my local imc, let alone 
initiate a discussion about it and come forward with a statement by imc 
germany or parts of it.


i can see that many people already put a lot of energy into this and i 
appreciate that. please help us form a democratic process and put in a 
little more.

thanks
Anna