Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees

[Jan Siren <sirenj@earthlink.net>]

Ron Sherwood wrote:
>
> Good morning, Bruce:
>
> There is another possibility.
>
> We should apply to ICANN for a grant to form an independent, international
> Internet Users Association called ICANN@Large or Internet@Large that would
> satisfy the DoC requirement for bottom-up representation.  How easy it would
> be for ICANN to comply with our request and show that they have seen the
> light. If we fail, they could claim that our failure supports the need for
> their ALAC. How hard for them to justify a refusal, without blatantly
> exposing their top-down control-everything model.

Sounds good on paper (screen) but in reality, is ICANN set up as a
grant-making foundation?  I hadn't heard so, and I suspect that their budget
doesn't support it.  The scenario I envision is that we recruit the most
successful grant-writers among us, spend time and prepare a bang-up proposal,
present it to ICANN, and have the door slammed perfunctorily in our face by
ICANN on financial grounds.  That won't generate us a whisper of good
publicity, instead we'll come across as inept for having asked the wrong
organization for money.

Better we should go to (say) the Pew Trusts or the Carter Center if we're
serious.  At least those (and other organizations) are in the habit of making
grants.

Anybody have a good record at grant-writing?


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