{"id":48,"date":"2012-08-29T03:19:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T03:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gosailaz.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2012-11-19T21:24:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:24:21","slug":"americas-cup-fundraising-losing-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gosailaz.com\/americas-cup-fundraising-losing-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Cup Fundraising Losing Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>huffingtonpost.com:<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0America&#8217;s Cup fundraising is hitting a snag, apparently &#8211; and the City of San Francisco, used to taxing and fining, may have to take the same approach with the America&#8217;s Cup as it does with people who overstay their turn at their parking meter. \u00a0The America&#8217;s Cup committee is not bound to a specific fundraising target in that it will not suffer any contractual penalties if it fails to meet its goal:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0[A]ccording to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sfcontroller.org\/modules\/showdocument.aspx?documentid=2903\" target=\"_hplink\">report<\/a>\u00a0by released by City Controller Ben Rosenfield, the committee&#8217;s fundraising efforts so far have given his office little confidence that that the race&#8217;s backers will reach their goal unless the pace picks up considerably.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the ACOC&#8217;s expenses and fundraising payout schedules, significant fundraising beyond those achieved to date will be required to honor the $32 million fundraising goals outlined in the Host Agreement over the coming three years,&#8221; wrote Rosenfield.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/02\/07\/americas-cup-fundraising-problems_n_1260782.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>huffingtonpost.com: \u00a0America&#8217;s Cup fundraising is hitting a snag, apparently &#8211; and the City of San Francisco, used to taxing and fining, may have to take the same approach with the America&#8217;s Cup as it does with people who overstay their turn at their parking meter. \u00a0The America&#8217;s Cup committee is not bound to a specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosailaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosailaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosailaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosailaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosailaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gosailaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gosailaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosailaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gosailaz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}