[Imc-drupal-dev] Nex t Steps for a Drupal IMC

[Ben West]

Very very very brief, highly specific response since we also suffer
greatly from lacking tech staff, CAMP (stcamp.org), a grassroots
radical community center in St. Louis, MO has a 501.c3 and is already
in the practice of provided fiscal sponsorship, should that be useful
to the current discussion.

That said, CAMP is badly understaffed, underfunded, and having extreme
difficultly pursuing its mission in the community.  We host St. Louis
IMC, but we're really stretched thin and have no capacity to oversee
or facilitate any more groups seeking grants.  We can nevertheless
offer fiscal sponsorship, provided the working group shows capacity
for accounting how the grant funds are allocated and spent.

There are likely other grassroots non-profits out there, eg. Rhizome
Collective in Austin, Texas, who could offer sponsorship to seek more
conventional grants.

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:19 PM,  <robbt at azone.org> wrote:
...
>  I do think this shows a lot of the tension in the IMC network that make it
> difficult for people to come to consensus. I think the most difficult part
> is communicating over e-mail with people whom you have never met doesn't
> really give a chance to build consensus. Also I think that the way I would
> of went for the grant would of been differently, ie using a 501c3 and not
> applying on behalf of a radical IMC, Boston IMC might of had better luck
> applying on it's own, but we don't need their money anyways.
...

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