[Noisebridge-discuss] Request for a treasurers report

[jim]

maybe "GIVE US OUR MONEY, YOU EXCELLENT ASSHOLE"? 

also, maybe regularly gear up for drives for new 
members, fund raising events, donations from the 
rich and powerful.... 



On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 15:09 -0700, Rachel McConnell wrote:
> Thanks for this, Jeffrey.  The membership dues we have received, are all
> current members up to date or are there members who have not yet sent
> their dues in?  I'll be happy to do another "GIVE US OUR MONEY ASSHOLE"
> set of emails if necessary.
> 
> Rachel
> 
> Jeffrey Malone wrote:
> > [I didn't notice this til now -- don't read the discuss list much now,
> > and even though it was CCed to me, my mail filter tagged it as discuss
> > list and hid it from me]
> > 
> > Amount in accounts: $9662.63
> > Note: a $550 water bill (plus $50 deposit) is about to be paid, and
> > $3600 in rent in a week.
> > 
> > Why have our funds dropped so much?
> > We've received less membership dues in recent months.  In March and
> > April, we got $2548.68 and $3105.20 -- not enough to cover rent, let
> > alone power + garbage + internet.
> > Donations didn't close the gap much -- in March, we received $96.66
> > and in April, $631.
> > For May, to date we have received $30 in donations and $1306.66 in dues.
> > 
> > How much does it cost to operate Noisebridge each month?
> > $ 100.00 Internet
> > $ 176.88 Garbage collection
> > $ 320.00 Power (averaged estimate)
> > $  80.00 Water/sewer (averaged estimate)
> > $3600.00 Rent
> > Total: $4276.88 (not including costs of things like TP, or our annual
> > insurance payment)
> > 
> > How much have we been bringing in each month?
> > (difference from average monthly expense in brackets)
> > Feb: $8234.57 [$3957.69] ($4.9k in donations received -- much of it
> > google matching donation from 2009)
> > Mar: $2385.16 [-$1891.72]
> > Apr: $4108.48 [-$168.40]
> > May: $1336.66 [-$2940.22] (as of 5/17 -- at present rate, we'll be
> > around $1.7k short)
> > 
> > If we continue to lose ~$1k/month, we'll be out of cash in approx 6 to 9 months.
> > 
> > 
> > Jeffrey
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