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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