<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sadly, so far not even the board has had insight into the financials.<div><br></div><div>Every board I've ever been associated reviews the financials of the organization at or before each board meeting, even if it is only a formality.</div><div><br></div><div>I went on an extremely broken record for something like a year, before a (single, one-time, and incomplete) set of financials was provided on November 4th, I believe. Sometimes we did get a bank balance in board meetings, which is better than nothing but a bad governance tool. The funny thing is, we kept making spending decisions on the board without having anything resembling a budget that would educate us whether or not we actually had the money to spend.</div><div><br></div><div>Let's hope the act improves by a mile with board 2.0.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 12, 2008, at 11:46, David Fuelling wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">> Does the OIDF currently make it's budget and financial expenditure<br> > information public?<br> ><br> > Do current candidate have a position on providing full financial<br> > transparency of OIDF moving forward?<br> <br> </div>The OIDF is a 501c3 and by law is required to be transparent with its<br> financials. Again, I can't imagine *not* doing this.<br> <font color="#888888"><br> - Scott<br> </font></blockquote></div><br>Thanks Scott! That's what I figured, and Dick was very helpful in pointing me to this information. <br><br>In 2009 (let's finish this election first) I would simply suggest/request that this type of data be readily accessible from a link on the web-page (if it's not already -- I didn't see one).<br> _______________________________________________<br>general mailing list<br><a href="mailto:general@openid.net">general@openid.net</a><br>http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>