{"id":1637,"date":"2014-08-24T13:13:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T18:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2014-09-30T00:02:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T05:02:04","slug":"philanthropy-vs-investment-starting-a-space-elevator-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1637","title":{"rendered":"Philanthropy vs. Investment &#8211; Starting a Space Elevator Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/2014SEC\/Sunday\/IMG_5089F.jpg\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/media\/2014SEC\/Sunday\/tn_IMG_5089F.jpg\" class=\"alignright\" height=\"177\"  width=\"200\" \/><\/a>The first presentation of Day 3 was by ISEC President Dr. Peter Swan.\u00a0 He talked about raising money for the space elevator effort and ran through the pro&#8217;s and con&#8217;s of starting up an Institute vs. a Charitable Foundation.\u00a0 He talked about the type of people that could be approached, and the pitch that we in the community need to make; a space elevator is an investment in the future of mankind and should be approached that way.\u00a0 A financial payoff is there, but it is considerably down the road and occurs only after a large investment in the infrastructure of a space elevator.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Swan made the point that philanthropic &#8220;types&#8221; can have this long-term vision and therefore could be approachable with such a pitch.\u00a0 He concluded by talking about the ongoing efforts of he and ISEC to put together a &#8220;package&#8221; that can be used in this effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first presentation of Day 3 was by ISEC President Dr. Peter Swan.\u00a0 He talked about raising money for the space elevator effort and ran through the pro&#8217;s and con&#8217;s of starting up an Institute vs. a Charitable Foundation.\u00a0 He talked about the type of people that could be approached, and the pitch that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}