GerardM wrote:
Hoi, Congratulations, Vishal you have a job that needs doing.. I hope for all our sakes you will do a great job.
In his reply Samuel indicates that it is not clear what our needs are and, what we would do with money generated. Let me remind him that at the last fund raiser we were looking for 1,5 million dollars, we got just over 1 million of that. A substantial part of it was acquired because of corporate donations. We are underfunded and understaffed as it is.
Relevant is that the Virgin deal was seen as problematic by some. In equal measure this attitude is problematic because it prevents the funding of our projects in the way they were budgetted in the future.
Now you want to sound confident by making a bet. Consider that you may eat French dinners, but you are offering it to an organisation used to eating spagetti only.
Sam and Gerard, please do remember that ... French dinners are expensive in most of the world... but not in France :-)
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