[WCUSP] Response Requested from WCUSP/WILPF

[JoanWDrake at aol.com]

I agree with Marla -- WILPF cannot downsize its own operations while yet 
pledging financial support to other organizations. As much as we would like to be 
members of worthy causes & projects such as, in this case, the Social Forum, 
our treasury must not be tapped to support others as our own organizational 
operations go begging for funds. I am particularly concerned that WILPF's Capitol 
Hill Legislative Office in Washington, DC, has been shut down for more than 
two years, despite the fact the Yvonne Logan's mother left a bequest to WILPF 
during the 1980's to purchase a building in which to permanently locate that 
important program -- what ever happened to the proceeds from the sale of the 
building on D Street Southeast, funded by that bequest, in which WILPF's 
Legislative Office was located? There has been very poor oversight of the US WILPF 
treasury through the years at the management level and an uninformed board has 
had the power to make poor financial decisions that have squandered substantial 
resources. It is a pity that we have violated a major rule of economic 
survival by operating on our principal rather than on our interest.
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