Hear hear !! GerardM

Brad Patrick wrote:

I write to advise the community that we have successfully brought a bookkeeper in to work with Michael Davis on a part-time basis, Tricia Hoffman. Trish was referred to us by our audit firm and has more than ten years of complicated full-cycle accounting experience. During an initial transition phase, Michael will be working with Trish to learn the accounts and work with our internal processes. Following the certification and publication of our audited financial statements, we will resume publication of our financials, on what I anticipate will be a monthly basis. Trish has agreed to provide professional support for our accounting functions on a contract basis. After we have worked together for a while, we will reassess based on the amount of time that is appropriate for the tasks required.

mav has had an extraordinary influence on WMF and is to be heartily congratulated for his willingness to jump in and work hard, especially in the earliest days of the projects. As I have come to appreciate the work that must be done to keep things going in the office, mav's energy and initiative become all the more apparent. I'm sure he will continue to contribute in multiple ways going forward.

Thanks, mav!

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--- Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@gmail.com wrote:

I write to advise the community that we have successfully brought a bookkeeper in to work with Michael Davis on a part-time basis, Tricia Hoffman. Trish was referred to us by our audit firm and has more than ten years of complicated full-cycle accounting experience. During an initial transition phase, Michael will be working with Trish to learn the accounts and work with our internal processes. Following the certification and publication of our audited financial statements, we will resume publication of our financials, on what I anticipate will be a monthly basis. Trish has agreed to provide professional support for our accounting functions on a contract basis. After we have worked together for a while, we will reassess based on the amount of time that is appropriate for the tasks required.

Wow - great news! Mid-term, I would like us to hire a relevantly-trained professional full time to keep the books, coordinate budgets and conduct donor management (the person, IMO, would need to be based in the St Pete office). Eventually, I imagine several people would need to specialize in certain areas and be supervised by a Finance Director.

mav has had an extraordinary influence on WMF and is to be heartily congratulated for his willingness to jump in and work hard, especially in the earliest days of the projects. As I have come to appreciate the work that must be done to keep things going in the office, mav's energy and initiative become all the more apparent. I'm sure he will continue to contribute in multiple ways going forward.

Thanks, mav!

I am just one of many people who helped - and continue to help. I certainly will not stop helping where I can and where I see a need to fill (hopefully in areas that are more fun than accounting and budgeting).

But thank you and everybody else for saying such nice things. :)

-- mav

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