Subject: Re: Checked in with Steve
From: Carmel Martin <[email-masked]>
To: John Podesta <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Heather Boushey" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 19:20:48 +0000

Thanks. Will flag for Torey and ashley.

Carmel Martin
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On Jul 30, 2015, at 1:37 PM, John Podesta <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

Adding Carmel. I think it's fine to go forward with finance/HR and Hudson hires. I will talk to Steve to see if we can agree on a cash flow strategy including reserve, but let's not wait on that to proceed with these hires.

On Thursday, July 30, 2015, Heather Boushey <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
Hello John,

I hope all is well with you. I checked in with Steve yesterday about my upcoming San Francisco trip and asked his advice as well on the budget as well, just to get another set of eyes on how the annual that he's seen before looks month-to-month. Steve said he'd take a look and get back to me soon. He is still keen on cutting us checks as we need his funds.

Thank you for pushing monthly cash flow. This is helpful for me to see on paper. I continue to think the plan is as prudent as a start-up can be and necessary if we are to go independent and do what we need to fulfill our mission and show effectiveness so we can raise funds.

But, we cannot become independent without a serious search for a finance and hr director - as these go-arounds with the budget demonstrate. Once we made the "go independent" decision, this and a development staff were my two top priorities. We have the development staff person - she's been here a week and a half and we're already moving forward - and we need this finance/hr person. We've filled the gap with a contractor to help us do the budget basics and help us do a search for a good finance/hr person, but now we're paying her to run a search that we have no approval for.

The other hires are also critical, but in different ways. With Ed spending all his time on management and the transition, and our grantees work about to (finally) come in, we are in need for an editor. David Hudson is on the market now and I need to move forward. The support for the academic programs is becoming increasingly important as our grant program has gone from no grantees to now over 30 and another tranche to set up and Korin needs help to do the outreach and support this program so that the research doesn't sit on a shelf. David Hudson will also help with the ghost-writing/editing/making the research go someplace.

All of this hiring will take time and, given what I see on the horizon, I think it's time to move forward. I'd very much like to sit down and talk budgets with you, but in the absence of time to do that, can we move forward advertising these positions?

Best,
Heather
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