MJ,
> The problem is not my reading comprehension. The problem is that the
> above reasoning makes no sense to me: if they're committing to do this
> work, why do they need the donations to be unrestricted? Surely if
> the donations are insufficient funding, they need to add more funds,
> not use these funds for other work. We should donate restricted for
> the project, not for the outcome, so it'll be usable towards it even
> if the total is insufficient.
Yes, there have been a couple of calls for making the grant restricted.
I think that's probably the way we should go ... we'll discuss it at
the Board meeting next week.
--Josh Berkus