Dr. KUROPAS: But I think our community really has to see some results first. We’re just getting started, and I think it might be a mistake to go to them now and say, “We need money,” when we still haven’t really done anything but meet.
Dr. WERES: Okay. Mr. Chairman, I did ask a specific question about whether funds turned over
by other organizations would have to be restricted or if they would be directed to a specific purpose. I would like to answer, an opinion from the Direc¬tor.
Dr. MACE: They can be restricted for specific purposes. It is, of course, preferable that they be unrestricted or as loosely restricted as possible, but yes, they can be restricted. In fact, any donation may indicate restriction on its use, and we would be legally obligated to abide by it
Congressman MICA: I just came in, and I need a little briefing of where you are.
I have just gotten a little bit of where your are here, and the only point I would raise in restricted gifts, and I’ve been through this ten or fifteen years around here: it’s fine if you want to take them, and I would abide by the majority rule of the Com¬mission, but I caution you be very, very careful in getting into this. Not only can you get into restricted gifts that you can’t really use, but you can get into restricted gifts that actually cost you money, and I’ve been through this. I’ve been on several founda¬tions. We’ve ended up with some yachts that cost us money to dispose of. We’ve ended up with all kinds of gifts that people find tremendous ways to get a tax ad¬vantage.

So I would just say that if we do it, we ought to have some type of a mechanism before the gift is accepted. If there’s any question as to what the gift is to be used for and how we can dispose of it, if we’re given items to dispose of and we can keep the proceeds, then we ought to have a right of refusal and be very careful on that because we can take some gifts that would cost us a fortune.
Mr. MARCHISHIN: Thank you very much, Mr. Mica.

I would like to add my comment on this fundraising. I think there is one specific area that the fund-raising could be very beneficial, and this is in the publishing and printing area. The limited budget of the Commission doesn’t allow for a great deal of publication of materials, and I think that this would be a major contribution that separate fund-raising could do, and also it was mentioned earlier by Congressman Her¬tel, the video. This is another area that turns out to be fairly expensive compared to other means of oral history collection, and that would be another specific area that the fund-raising could make a major impact in supplementing the budget of the Commis¬sion.

Another area I wanted to comment on is whether the Commission itself should be collecting the funds or a separate Friends of the Famine Commission type of organiza¬tion. I would tend to go in the direction of a separate Friends of the Famine type of organization for a couple of reasons.
The Famine Commission, the congressional Commission, has a two-year life, and al¬though I would like to see the work of the Commission continue if possible, the facts are there that it has a two-year life, has a limited life. I would like to see some mechanism within the Ukrainian community to continue to support the work of the Commission and do even more work within the Ukrainian community and the academic community.