[NCSG-FC] CIVICRM

[Thato Mfikwe]

Hi Farzaneh,

What password should I use to gain access to this platform?

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 5:24 AM, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear FC,
>
> Here is a current status of NCSG CiviCRM finances:
>
> CiviCRM is the database management we have used for our membership
> management. It had many glitches and needed a lot of development, so we
> decided to spend the budget of 9000 USD (some of this went for hosting, I
> will put the invoices and everything else up) that ICANN allocated to NCSG
> to fix the system.
>
> I also asked both NCUC and NPOC who received 9000 USD each from ICANN
> for database management to allocate 4000 USD of their budget to us to
> continue with the development etc. They approved, so in total we have
> around 17000 USD for development work and CIVI maintenance. We have hired a
> company. (which I am going to send you the proposals - contract and
> invoices we received up until now)
>
> This budget is an annual budget that ICANN provides for us. We will see if
> it gets approved next year too.
>
> In the past (when Tapani was chair) the CIVI developer was being paid by
> NCUC bank account and then NCUC would get reimbursed by ICANN.
>
> NCUC EC agreed to do so this time as well, however, the treasurer of NCUC
> only accepted to pay the two initial invoices and urged NCSG to have its
> own bank account or ICANN to pay for it directly.
>
> This changes many things. I believe it also means that we need to have a
> bank account for NCSG and cannot use the constituencies' bank account.
>
> In order for ICANN to pay for this, it has to establish the company as a
> vendor, a very complicated process that will take a lot of time and ICANN
> won't probably accept it because the service is going to support our group
> and not ICANN org.
>
> A more immediate concern is this means that we cannot continue paying the
> company through NCUC and our work on membership management will be stopped.
>
> I have discussed this with ICANN, and they have informed me that I can
> pick up the bill and upon showing the paid invoice, get reimbursed. I have
> to talk to my bank as well and see what would be the best way to go about
> it. I am willing to do this for a period of time until NCSG gets its own
> bank account. We will see what the bank says.
>
> So for now letting you know about the status of this. If I end up paying
> for the service, I will put up the invoices/the ICANN payments somewhere
> password protected you can have access to.
>
>
> Best
>
>
> Farzaneh
>
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