[LGM] Request For Comments - reorganizing financial tasks for LGM - fundraising data

[Dave Crossland]

Hi Susan!

Thanks for putting this thoughtful list together :) I hope Louis can update
us with many of the answers when he has time :)

On 20 May 2016 at 21:42, Susan Spencer <susan.spencer at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I would like to help with fundraising for LGM.
> Telling the financial story of LGM is essential for raising funds.
> Can anyone provide answers, full or partial, to these questions for the
> years 2015 and 2016 (two years is all that is needed)
>
>    - Who "runs" LGM? What's the official wording for this answer?
>    - Which organization(s) accepted donations for LGM?
>    - For each organization:
>       - If the name of the organization is an acronym, then what do the
>       letters stand for?
>       - What is the contact information (person, address, phone number,
>       website) for this organization?
>       - Is it a corporation, a partnership, an LLC?
>       - Does this organization represent other groups besides LGM?
>       - Who are the officers?
>       - Does this organization show up in a Google search, do they have a
>       webpage?
>       - Are donations tax-deductible for donors from Canada? from USA?
>       from EU? from anywhere else?
>       - What is their tax identification number (or how can this number
>       be requested) so their credentials can be verified by donor corporations'
>       purchasing and legal departments?
>       - How does this organization accept funds - wire transfer to a bank
>       account, credit card, PayPal?
>       - Does this organization have publicly available financial reports,
>       and how can the reports be accessed? [*Note: Organizations which
>       accept tax-exempt donations are usually required to make public financial
>       statements.]*
>    - How many people attended LGM each year? Donors want an estimate of
>    the outreach of their funds
>    - What is the estimated cost of the next LGM? Differences for each
>    prior location can be roughly estimated so that predictive estimates about
>    the next year's funding requirements can be made. Corporations can be very
>    supportive if they know the level of the financial requirement.
>    - What were the amount of travel requests each year? What proportion
>    of travel requests were reimbursed each year? If travel expenses are
>    reimbursed only after actual costs are met, then it is important for donors
>    to know if they've given too little. If there are shortfalls, then the
>    shortfalls can be used to ask for increased donations for the following
>    year.
>
> It is usually easy to find out this information about organizations and
> somewhat less easy yet still possible to find out this information about
> conferences. The fault may lie with me that I don't know this info, but it
> would be super if some nice person(s) would provide me with this data.
>
> xx
> Susan
>
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Cheers
Dave
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