[Board] Sponsorship funding and value for money

[Dave McIlhagga]

A slight rewording:

On 17-Dec-07, at 2:34 PM, Dave McIlhagga wrote:

> One thing is clear, if we want a Foundation that will continue to  
> have an ED to run it's day to day affairs -- we need to get "Beyond  
> Autodesk" as a majority source of operational funding for the  
> organization. That will mean as Jo pointed out, a concerted effort  
> - led by Tyler (probably in the range of about 20% of this time)  
> dedicated to fundraising. We at the board have to support this  
> effort -- but none of us can put in the dedicated time that is  
> necessary to make this effort successful.

I meant to say "none of us can dedicate an equivalent time to what  
the ED could devote to this effort in order to make it successful".

I and hopefully others will be happy to mentor and support this  
effort (fundraising does have some overlaps with marketing and sales  
after all) but Tyler - we need you to be the owner of the initiative,  
or it will slip through the cracks again this year, and that is a  
risky proposition for the organization.

Dave