Donations to SPI vs associated projects

[Joshua D. Drake]

On 07/11/2015 06:45 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>
> The SPI donations page at http://spi-inc.org/donations/ currently
> says:
>
>> These donations can be made to SPI directly, or they can be marked
>> for use by a particular member project.  It is preferred that the
>> donations be made to SPI, as they can then be used wherever the need
>> is greatest. Donations to SPI that are not marked for a particular
>> project will be distributed to the projects that are currently
>> affiliated with SPI as needed, and/or used for SPI's own expenses.
>
> I'm not speaking for the board now, but personally I disagree with
> this policy.  I think we should encourage donors to specify which
> projects they want to support.  They are of course welcome to donate
> to SPI to support overall operations, but the preference should be to
> support our associated projects.  They know best how to spend their
> money and donors know best which projects they want to support.
>
> Maybe such a policy made sense when SPI had no reserves, but SPI is
> sitting on a healthy cash reserve these days.  Also, I'm not aware of
> SPI distributing cash to projects, at least not recently.  (SPI
> supported Conservancy's non-profit accounting project, but that's not
> even an SPI member project.)
>
> What do other people think?
>

I think we should keep the policy and actually do what it says.

jD


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