<div dir="ltr"><div>Its like old home week! First, love to all of you decent and creative people! </div>
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<div>Here are my two thoughts: </div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>warmly, </div>
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<div>Rory Turner </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:06 PM, julie caldwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:motivate@frontiernet.net">motivate@frontiernet.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Thanks Brandon for your appreciative inquiry...<br><br>The balance of funds is approx $12,000. It came from O.net to honor<br>
the work EFN did together, in particular our work in organizing the<br>Blaine conference. It was not given with any attachments or<br>stipulations as to how we used the funds.<br><br>EFN has a consensus policy and a communication policy. 100%<br>
consensus. Or, 3 voices of consensus approving a communication that<br>is not negated by anyone else on the board. All links and<br>communications that are moving forward as EFN must be posted and<br>shared in this thread.<br>
<br>As of last year the trustees were: Gerry, Ted, Julie, Laure, Michael,<br>and David<br><br>None were able to reach consensus on how to use the funds. The name<br>EFN which was a dba of YHY was released by YHY.<br><br>
Funds are being held by the non=profit Youth Helping Youth, Inc.<br><br>EFN does not have a non-profit or business status of any kind. It is<br>a merely labeled name designated on a group of 6 people who currently<br>live in the US on planet earth.<br>
<br>I appreciate Micheal and David's comments. Thanks for the b-day wish<br>Micheal. Glad to hear you are working with Theresa. Glad to hear<br>David is alive and well.<br><br>Love to all, julie<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>On Jul 27, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Brandon CS Sanders wrote:<br><br>> I'm no longer on the board, but if I was I'd want to know: How much<br>> is the balance? Where did it come from? What explicit and implicit<br>
> promises were given about what it would be used for?<br>><br>> On Jul 26, 2008, at 6:03 PM, julie caldwell wrote:<br>>> Hello everybody...<br>>><br>>> Hope you are all well.<br>>><br>>> Does anyone oppose giving up the name Emerging Futures Network and<br>
>> the<br>>> balance of funds being held at Youth Helping Youth Inc?<br>>><br>>> Laure and I would like to use the name and the funds to persue our<br>>> work in developing a Network of Youth.<br>
>><br>>> Gerry Gleason has given me a verbal okay over the phone. So if I<br>>> don't hear from anyone of you within 5 days, I'll assume you are okay<br>>> with this decision.<br>>><br>
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