I have actually created and/or been on many non-profit boards of some of the highest (and notso high) cultural institutions in the country….

the bottom line is this..
at a basic minimum…an non-profit must provide the following thigs to its members annually…
- financial statements audited by a third-party accounting firm
- an Annual General Meeting (AGM)
- by-laws stating things like term-limits for board members, presidents, what the criteria of membership, goals of the organization…things like that..

there are whole bunch of other things that need to be done once these are done…but from what I understand, based on my research, and from what this petition and others have said..the FDCC isn’t even close…that’s a very valid issue. I mean if potentially LFW gets close to a million dollars…where does it all go…? it’s this knucklehead crap that just irritates me cause imagaine what you can do when you take 10% of that money and bring in buyers or international media…

that’s partly why TWOS was started..cause where i come from..you don’t like something or go do it yourself…

the marketing campaign is typical of toronto tourism stuff…all traditional media that doesn’t really do much…they apparently had bus wraps and bought major spreads in the mags..and that’s it..no online at all…but that’s there deal…and I have seen the creative…it’s fricken horrible…one of my junior designers could do better..

Bernadette Morra’s question seems to ask for some kind of transparency about how public money gets spent. These things sure are hard to measure, but someone needs to measure them.

How did I not hear about this campaign until just now? New York readers, have you seen this?

this is in conjuction with Toronto Tourism…