Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees

["Ron Sherwood" <sherwood@islands.vi>]

Good morning, Jan:

Of course you are right in your suggestion that, once legally established,
we apply to a whole plethora of trusts that are likely to fund certain
aspects of our organization.

However, why do you and so many other people attempt to negate the idea of a
simple request to ICANN for seed money?  It is not our job to decide that
ICANN does not have money in their budget to help organize a grass roots
(bottom-up) structure...  it is for them to tell us that, if they don't want
to help!   (Even though they have just massively increased their budget and
are mandated to help create a "bottom-up" representative organization, or
organizations.)

Regards, Ron Sherwood

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Siren" <sirenj@earthlink.net>
To: <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership fees


> 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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