Subject: America Votes May Allocation- Please review and respond
From: "Amy Dacey" <[email-masked]>
To: "John Stocks" <[email-masked]>, "John Podesta" <[email-masked]>, "Anna Burger" <[email-masked]>, "Robert McKay" <[email-masked]>, "Frank Smith" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 09:18:18 -0400

I met with Greg yesterday to talk about the AV budget for this month and
moving forward.

Greg has outlined below the May budget for your review.

I discussed with Greg cash flow and the current environment and we agreed he
would take the months of June, July and August and readjust, and remove
expenditures that were not essential but added program.  He has a
low/medium/high budgets (12/15/19 million dollars) we are going to map out
the next 3 months based on a 12 million dollar low budget- removing programs
and additional expenditures to review.

We also had an at length discussion of fall activity and agreed some of
their initial plans (additional state staff, research, polling) and other
projects needed to be taken out of this budget and reviewed at the
Allocation committee meeting to determine if there are other ways to get
these items funded or if there are other priorities we need to fund first.

*My reccomendation: FFA agrees to pay the May allocation request.  At the
next Board meeting (June 9th)  we will have a detailed, line itemed budget
from AV that the Board will review and we will make a decision at that time
to clear the 3 month plan.  In addition I am asking for fall programing
(they want to coodinate GOTV efforts in states) for the board to review.*
**
*Please respond to this email in regards to the MAY allocation.  With Board
consensus I would like to move this money on Tuesday of next week.*

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Total May AV Budget:    $1.158 million
FFA Request:                 $868K

States: $832K
            Direct Expenditures in 14 States: $584K
                        -Staff
                        -Overhead (rent, ofc, expenses, utities, tech,
insurance, taxes/fees)
                        -Travel, Events, Trainings, Etc.

            Coordinated Data & Staffing Services: $248K
                        -Catalist
-VAN
-ISSI
-State-Based Consultants

National HQ/Organizational: 325K
                        -Staff
                        -Consultants (inc Atlas)
                        -Professional Services (Legal, Accounting,
Administrative etc)
                        -Overhead (rent, ofc, expenses, utities, tech,
insurance, taxes/fees)
                        -Development
                        -Travel
-- 
Amy K. Dacey
Executive Director
Fund for America
202-730-7727