[Foundation-l] Chapters

[Ray Saintonge]

On 08/29/11 3:51 AM, Milos Rancic wrote:
>
> What I am saying is that Foundation will have to check every program
> of every chapter, no matter if it would give one large or per-program
> grants. And it will have to do no matter if chapters think that it is
> their problem.
>
> What would WMF do:
> * If it finds<whatever unacceptable>  in a program, it would say:
> Please, find funds for that at some other place.
> * If it finds<whatever unacceptable>  too late, chapter for sure
> wouldn't be internally responsible if it doesn't have a person with
> relevant knowledge.
>
> That will make significant overload in WMF's processing capabilities.
> Can't wait to see how WMF would analyze programs of any larger
> chapter; and chapters tend to be larger and larger. Ultimately, that
> will lead into even more delay in allocating grants. And that will
> become WMF's problem, as the problem is when you plan to spend some
> money and you don't do that.
>
> And about chapters: There are two chapters' Board representatives. And
> their term is going to be expired in half of the year or so. If
> chapters are not happy with their current representation, they should
> choose other persons to take care about their interests.
I'm afraid that there is a lot there they haven't thought through.  I 
would have no problems with an outreach programme aimed at Cuba, but the 
US masters might see that differently.

Matters of processing capabilities would be the WMF's problems.  If it 
gets caught up in its own bureaucracy chapters as a whole should develop 
ways to work around that.  Probably too, there needs to be a a 
collective of some sort that looks after chapter interests.  Although it 
may not bind the current chapter board representatives, responsibility 
to the chapters should be made clear to the future ones.

Ray