Fw: IPI request for general operating support
Dear Amy:
I hope all is well with you.
Further to our meeting in Seattle and subsequent correspondence, please find attached our letter of request for general operating support from the Gates Foundation.
I believe your latest recommendation was for general operating support of from $1.0 to $2.5 million over three years (Oct 2013-Sep 2016), and project support of from $2.5 to $4.0 million (depending on the previous) over one year (Jan—Dec 2014). We respectfully request the Foundation's consideration of a two-year, rather than three-year, term for the general operating support — i.e., from Oct 2013 thru Sep 2015. We are confident of IPI's capacity to fully utilize the general operating funds — as well as the anticipated project funding — over
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these requested periods, and we believe the two-year term better aligns with the one-year term of project support.
You and Paul also requested a listing of IPI's expenses incurred to date on polio eradication. We are finalizing our accounting of these and will provide an itemized report in the next day or two, if acceptable.
Please let us know of anything further you may require at this stage. Otherwise, we look forward to a conference call in the coming weeks on the proposal for project funding that we're now hard at work on.
Many thanks for your kind support throughout this process.
Best,
David
David Witt
Director, Finance & Administration
International Peace Institute
777 United Nations Plaza, 4th Floor
- Address: 777 United Nations Plaza, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10017
- Website: www.ipinst.org
- Contact Information: Redacted phone and fax numbers are present.
David —
A belated thank you for this note. We will be in touch next week with our response, questions and next steps.
Thank you,
Amy
Dear Amy:
Thanks very much for your reply.
We look forward to hearing further from you on the request for general operating support; meanwhile, we continue to work on the proposal for project funding and will await word from you on a conference call in the coming weeks to discuss. I am also completing and will send shortly an itemization of expenses incurred to date on polio eradication, as requested for the initial funding.
Best,
David
David Witt
Director, Finance & Administration
International Peace Institute
777 United Nations Plaza, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Tel: (direct)
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do not send anything else , anything! without letting me see it before it goes not after. please. the idea that there is no accounting after months will present a problem.
From: David Witt
Sent:Wednesday, October 09, 2013 05:45 PM
To: Amy Carter Amy.Carter@gatesfoundation.org
Cc: Paul Facchini <Paul.Facchiniegatesfoundation.org>; Jennifer Alcorn >; Terje
Rod-Larsen; Andrea Pfanzelter; Camilla Reksten-Monsen
Subject:RE: IPI request for general operating support
Dear Amy:
Thanks very much for your reply.
We look forward to hearing further from you on the request for general operating support; meanwhile, we continue to work on the proposal for project funding and will await word from you on a conference call in the coming weeks to discuss. I am also completing and will send shortly an itemization of expenses incurred to date on polio eradication, as requested for the initial funding.
Best,
David
David Witt
Director, Finance & Administration
International Peace Institute
777 United Nations Plaza, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Tel: (direct)
EFTA00972411
Fax: