Deron Beal freecycle $150,000
The Free World
Imagine this Deron Beal the creator of freecycle is no longer running a
free network. And he is the only salaried staff. How free that can
be? Personal freedom obviously but those gifts that he states that are
posted one at a time come from some very gratious people that do it for
nothing. Is Deron Beal selfish? You be the judge. The next time you
offer up something on a freecycle group you my as well just send a
check to Deron the Recycling Baron.
http://www.freecycle.org/aboutus.php?tpl=funds
The Freecycle Network's current annual budget is $150,000. Nearly all
of that funding is from sponsor funding / corporate underwriting.
Approximately 90% of these funds are used directly for program
expenses. The remaining 10% is split evenly between membership,
fundraising and other administrative expenses. Our first tax forms will
be completed following the end of our fiscal year, 6/30/05. An external
audit and annual report will follow. As our 501(c)3 status is still
pending, we have no IRS 990's and donations to our organization are
not yet tax deductible. We are registered as a nonprofit corporation in
the State of Arizona. Once our 501(c)3 status is approved with the IRS,
tax deductibility will be retroactive to our application date in July
of 2004..
http://www.freecycle.org/aboutus.php?tpl=staff
It is with great pride and with many, many thanks that we acknowledge
the thousands of volunteer moderators worldwide. Each local group
generally has two to six local moderators who, in turn, are helping
over a million members to keep good stuff out of landfills and to
develop stronger community ties.
Some 80 of these moderators volunteer further time to approve new
groups for their state, province or country. In addition, there's a
committed crew of some 25-30 moderators putting in countless hours for
Group Outreach and Assistance, helping existing groups with day-to-day
problems. Another 3-4 people take care of in...@freecycle.org questions,
4-5 lead the worldwide moderator group called the ModSquad. (There are
also a couple of ad hoc committees set up to deal with issues at hand.)
There are a few more volunteers who help administer the Web site and
our extensive database.
Wow! Hats off to all these wonderful people!!
Our initial *salaried* staff would include, uhm, one person, the
Executive Director. That would be the Freecycle founder, Deron Beal. He
is blessed to be able to work with all these good people from his base
at the Freecycle HQ -which looks more like a guest bedroom to me, but
so be it-- in Tucson, Arizona.
Assisting Deron from her former dining room in beautiful, downtown
Milan (NY, not Italy) is Nancy Castleman, our over-worked and
under-paid head moderator and Mother Hen. She keeps us chicks in line
and safe. Cluck, cluck.
And, finally there is Jeff Davis, a true giant of a man & the local
host of all sites nonprofit and beautiful, who created, and now runs,
the Freecycle Web site, and has done all the site's coding. He's a
true blessing.