[EFN-Collaboration] Hello

[Rory Turner]

Its like old home week! First, love to all of you decent and creative
people!

Here are my two thoughts:

1. Use the money to seed a conference like Blaine to follow up with and
reconnect O-Net people, perhaps seeding future collaborations. That sounds
like an appropriate use.

2. Failing that, the money should either be returned to Omidyar, or donated
with their consent to an organization that none of us has a stake or
interest in. We could nominate organizations and vote via survey monkey.

warmly,

Rory Turner




On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:06 PM, julie caldwell <motivate at frontiernet.net>wrote:

> Thanks Brandon for your appreciative inquiry...
>
> The balance of funds is approx $12,000.  It came from O.net to honor
> the work EFN did together, in particular our work in organizing the
> Blaine conference.  It was not given with any attachments or
> stipulations as to how we used the funds.
>
> EFN has a consensus policy and a communication policy.   100%
> consensus.  Or, 3 voices of consensus approving a communication that
> is not negated by anyone else on the board.  All links and
> communications that are moving forward as EFN must be posted and
> shared in this thread.
>
> As of last year the trustees were:  Gerry, Ted, Julie, Laure, Michael,
> and David
>
> None were able to reach consensus on how to use the funds.   The name
> EFN which was a dba of YHY was released by YHY.
>
> Funds are being held by the non=profit Youth Helping Youth, Inc.
>
> EFN does not have a non-profit or business status of any kind.  It is
> a merely labeled name designated on a group of 6 people who currently
> live in the US on planet earth.
>
> I appreciate Micheal and David's comments.  Thanks for the b-day wish
> Micheal.  Glad to hear you are working with Theresa.  Glad to hear
> David is alive and well.
>
> Love to all,  julie
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 27, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Brandon CS Sanders wrote:
>
> > I'm no longer on the board, but if I was I'd want to know:  How much
> > is the balance?  Where did it come from?  What explicit and implicit
> > promises were given about what it would be used for?
> >
> > On Jul 26, 2008, at 6:03 PM, julie caldwell wrote:
> >> Hello everybody...
> >>
> >> Hope you are all well.
> >>
> >> Does anyone oppose giving up the name Emerging Futures Network and
> >> the
> >> balance of funds being held at Youth Helping Youth Inc?
> >>
> >> Laure and I would like to use the name and the funds to persue our
> >> work in developing a Network of Youth.
> >>
> >> Gerry Gleason has given me a verbal okay over the phone.  So if I
> >> don't hear from anyone of you within 5 days, I'll assume you are okay
> >> with this decision.
> >>
> >> Thanks to you all,
> >>
> >> Julie
> >>
> >>
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