{"id":53,"date":"2007-06-28T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T12:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icbie.net\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2007-06-28T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T12:41:46","slug":"coming-soon-an-icbie-office-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/it\/coming-soon-an-icbie-office-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon: An ICBIE Office in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/icbiegrp1.jpg\" title=\"ICBIE_Committee_Roma.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/icbiegrp1.jpg\" alt=\"ICBIE_Committee_Roma.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night will be remembered as a key moment in ICBIE history, because it marks the foundation of a permanent Roman committee, comprising a substantial number of determined friends that will operate an Italian office.  We met for dinner, gathered around a big table on Pina Madonna&#8217;s terrace, discussing the nuts and bolts of our new mission.<\/p>\n<p>Pina described our current situation:  although she established an Italian fiscal account for the ICBIE a year ago, we still cannot function as a bona fide non-profit association without having a physical office space and a telephone, operating with fixed office hours.  So we have decided to actively pursue a search, so that by September we can begin to function, taking turns in manning the office.<\/p>\n<p>The advantages are twofold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a bona fide non-profit association, we can apply for grants and benefit from the Italian tax system, where donors can write-off their gifts or assign us  5\/1000ths of their Italian tax payments.<\/li>\n<li>As a stable committee, we can plan an articulated series of events, informing the wider public of ICBIE&#8217;s noble mission and organizing fund-raisers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We also discussed the status of ICBIE&#8217;s websites, and we agreed to help integrate icbie.com (the official website) with the new icbie.net blog, using a consistent format throughout.<\/p>\n<p>The evening ended with a chorus of thanks to Pina and Gianfranco for the hospitality and the wonderful dinner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/roypietro.jpg\" title=\"Roy Zimmerman &amp; Pietro Gallina\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icbie.net\/blog_old\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/roypietro.jpg\" alt=\"Roy Zimmerman &amp; Pietro Gallina\" height=\"235\" width=\"301\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night will be remembered as a key moment in ICBIE history, because it marks the foundation of a permanent Roman committee, comprising a substantial number of determined friends that will operate an Italian office. We met for dinner, gathered around a big table on Pina Madonna&#8217;s terrace, discussing the nuts and bolts of our new mission. Pina described our current situation: although she established an Italian fiscal account for the ICBIE a year ago, we still cannot function as a bona fide non-profit association without having a physical office space and a telephone, operating with fixed office hours. So we have decided to actively pursue a search, so that by September we can begin to function, taking turns in manning the office. The advantages are twofold: As a bona fide non-profit association, we can apply for grants and benefit from the Italian tax system, where donors can write-off their gifts or assign us 5\/1000ths of their Italian tax payments. As a stable committee, we can plan an articulated series of events, informing the wider public of ICBIE&#8217;s noble mission and organizing fund-raisers. We also discussed the status of ICBIE&#8217;s websites, and we agreed to help integrate icbie.com (the official&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-icbie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/it\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icbie.net.br\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}