What is Conclaves financial situation or what does it spend the money on?
Our conferences are not to provide the base for our annual budget. The Conclave does not own property or have a hired staffi, and those are also not driving forces for the organization. Our events are as close to our costs as we can make them. We have no grants or sponsoring groups or individuals and our Executive Council (board) is all volunteer. The events are organized by the members of the Executive Council and interested individuals who wish to be on an event committee. All profits are used to support the running and maintenance of the Earth Conclave. We have printing, postage, d-base, computer, phone, government fees and event expenses. As a non-profit organization we believe that our finances are relatively public. We list all of our expenses and the mass income at the end of each event. Sometimes we misjudged our slush and we pass the hat to make up the difference. The information that we WILL NOT disclose are the specific amounts that individuals paid for their registration or
