DAISY Consortium as a possible way to accept funds

Dear Steering Committee, with CC to Avneesh and Richard Orme CEO,
 
I know we are trying to figure out how to receive funds earmarked for
EPUBcheck. I wanted to point out a few items:
 
The DAISY Consortium is a charity in Switzerland. We also have US Fund for
DAISY registered as a charity (501C(3)),  in the USA. This means we can
receive funds without being taxed.
 
The DAISY Consortium has in the past helped organizations by setting up an
account in our bookkeeping system for that company. Funds coming in were
tracked in that account. We can report on these items separately. For
example, we helped in the "Transforming Braille" project.
 
Because we are under Swiss law, we have an audit of our accounts every year.
The DAISY Board signs off on the audit.
 
We now have the ability to take accept all major debit and credit cards from
customers in every country. We can issue an invoice, and can include a
button to for online payment through their secure platform. Funds arriving
in USD go to US Fund for DAISY account. Other currencies go to a CHF account
at Credit Swiss, but we can change this last bit.
This has not been tested yet., and we have not tested for accessibility.
 
We can also accept wire transfers and snail mail payments.
 
I thought I should make this information available to the SC prior to our
call tomorrow.
 
Best
George
 
 
 
 
 
 
George Kerscher Ph.D.
-In our Information Age, access to information is a fundamental human right.
Chief Innovations Officer, DAISY Consortium
http://www.daisy.org
Senior Advisor, Global Literacy, Benetech
http://www.benetech.org
President, International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) 
http://www.idpf.org
Member of the National Museum and Library Services  Board (IMLS)
http://www.imls.gov
Chair Steering Council Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a division of the
W3C 
http://www.w3c.org/wai 
Phone: +1 406/549-4687
Cell:+1 406/544-2466 
Email: kerscher@montana.com