Well, I’m self supporting, the institute carries tech costs, so I am responsible

Well, I’m self supporting, the institute carries tech costs, so I am responsible for using donated funds as judiciously as possible. You wouldn’t believe what it costs to run this organization, or how hard we work at keeping costs down. 😉 It’s evidence of how little you need to make a difference when you have dedicated vounteers and pay only on person full time.

That’s why I only appeal for $$ when I absolutely have to.

Unfortunately twitter is NOT GOOD for fundraising. Where on Facebook I could put something out and rase a few thousand for software, hardware, hosting easily. We just dont’ have the reach here.

As soon as next year we should be back in the fundraising business, because we’ll have both the events and the publications live and that starts to break the fourth wall enough to attract more donors.

And next, wehen we start racking up court cases, that will open the flood gates.

So as a ‘startup’ we use our capital carefully, depend mostly on volunteers, and strongly avoid ‘launching’ until we have generated the revenue to sustain our ambitions.

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