Hello all, i hope you have found the entries to be somewhat useful or atleast informative. At the moment i am in Punta Arenas and the big issue is FUNDING. when isnt it really. But, to be honest, it wasnt until Xplore decided that they would not give us a third round of funding. This was quite a surpirse as everything seemed to be going smoothly. Anyway, the main reason for this was based on the famous ¨draagvlak activiteiten¨, (imagine me saying that in dutch). For details see Wouter.
So we are looking for ways to fund our activities here in Chile. Obviously we are looking at funding possibilities with international funds. The problem is that at the moment we do not have any way of determining with certainty when we could get funding. So we want to continue working but what do we tell the stakeholders. We are working on a way that we may be able to decrease this uncertainty and it is related to the students fee. Initially we are seeing whether it is possible to get our partners to host students. In this way we could use the fee paid to us to cover things like office costs. Obviously this would have to be stipulated before hand so that the students/volunteers are aware of where the money goes. This is one idea and as such we could basically keep the fee as is. However, if this is not possible, we are looking at the possibility of higher fees......but is this feasible? Not much higher, just around 25 euros..................As such we are looking at a way to create a basic budget that will give certainity and then supplement this with funding applications.
So we are looking for ways to fund our activities here in Chile. Obviously we are looking at funding possibilities with international funds. The problem is that at the moment we do not have any way of determining with certainty when we could get funding. So we want to continue working but what do we tell the stakeholders. We are working on a way that we may be able to decrease this uncertainty and it is related to the students fee. Initially we are seeing whether it is possible to get our partners to host students. In this way we could use the fee paid to us to cover things like office costs. Obviously this would have to be stipulated before hand so that the students/volunteers are aware of where the money goes. This is one idea and as such we could basically keep the fee as is. However, if this is not possible, we are looking at the possibility of higher fees......but is this feasible? Not much higher, just around 25 euros..................As such we are looking at a way to create a basic budget that will give certainity and then supplement this with funding applications.
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This is really good stuff, I will definitely try to reach your blog once a week or so.
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