On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Bod Notbod wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
The prior question is, where did the money come from? I can't seem to figure out what the Google Fund at the Tides Foundation is...
It does seem slightly opaque.
A small amount of digging suggests that Google gives money to here:
http://www.tides.org/index.php
...which then releases it again on Google's say so. Maybe. My only evidence for this is really:
This response is drawn from my previous knowledge of the Tides Foundation, and no particular knowledge of how Google is using them:
In my experience in the past, the Tides Foundation manages a charitable fund for an entity. Essentially, the entity gives money to this fund, and then says "Hey, these people are doing good work, let's help them do more of it..."; Tides then goes through and handles the legal due diligence and the paperworky stuff that no one really wants to do. :-)
Philippe