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=== Financial Report === Funds in bank: $16,229.80 Danny is acting as proxy treasurer for Kelly, who is stuck at Heathrow. Previously in NB treasury news, we thought we were screwed. The basic principle is that we should have 3 months expenses. We had less than 2 months expenses a couple of weeks ago. The good news is that we are now back to 3 months ahead. *applause* We now have 16K in the bank account, and that's after paying for January rent. Everyone was excellent. We got in 5K in casual donations for December. We also brought in 4K in membership dues. Paypal had randomly stopped some recurring payments, no one spotted it. We contacted a lot of members who then restored the recurring payments. The rough cost of running NB is 5K a month. Kelly has some figures which are a bit tentative. Oct: we took in 4K. Nov: 6K, and costs (including next year's insurance) were a bit more. 9.5K December, expenses unknown . Ongoing membership dues: <s>4.1K a month, roughly</s>*. 12 people are paying not as members, but as regular donators. *Note from treasurer: I think this figure is still too high. Will have a better estimate soon. --[[User:Hurtstotouchfire|Hurtstotouchfire]] 14:21, 29 December 2010 (UTC) Kelly asks for people to ask questions, We will note them and she will answer in the wiki or on the mailing list. Praveen: How much money is coming from big donations that are one-time? What is our reliance on that? Danny: In 2009 according to the annual report, about third of NB's income was from casual non-recurring donations. Unsure as to how much of this is big donations rather than small payments. Praveen: If people pay their entire year's dues up front, are we tracking that? Danny: There are 32 people who pay dues, 10 or so that they probably pay money, a coupe of them pay up front all at once. Shannon attempts to answer the question Chandra asked: What happened? We run on volunteer work. We now have an awesome treasurer Kelly and also Danny has stepped up to help out. Danny adds that it is due to Kelly untangling things that we a) knew the situation b) we were able to fix it. Shannon adds also that he panicked a bit and sent a scaremongering email. Things weren't as bad as he thought they were. He feels a bit bad, but not too bad because people have been stepping up. Jared says the Machine Learning group didn't know what the financial system of NB worked and what it needs and they would like to contribute and make sure NB is okay. Liz says we can still get people to pay attention and fix a situation, without creating a panic. Praveen asks for financial report emails to go to announce. Liz: How to set up more employer matching donations? How do we set that up, and publicize it correctly? Danny says, keep asking the companies, have some employees suggesting it. Then find the financial people. Shannon says to ask your HR person if you think your company might match your donations. Liz: Let's detach the idea of donating and recurring payments from "membership". Encourage people to set up donations. Link to the donation page on the NB wiki.
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