“Corporate sponsorship –an increasingly difficult creature to
find –appears to have been the traditional financial staple for
GNOME, paying for the foundation’s projects and programs as well as
providing salaries for its small number of staffers. According to
John Palmieri, Board Treasurer, the foundation is fine for 2009,
but is “projecting that without a significant influx of steady
contributions” it will face a significant shortfall in 2010. From
Palmieri’s comments, the culprit appears to be the above-mentioned
vanishing corporate contributions, though Foundation Executive
Director Stormy Peters has reportedly been able to secure new
sponsors, at least for 2009.”
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