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Strengths                                                                            

- Membership diversity can bring talent
- In-house knowledge of requirements within at Large
- Improved consultation among the RALOs and their representatives on the committee
- Cost effective actions
- Experience sharing among RALOs                                                                        RALOs  
- Bottom-up budget structure for At Large                                                                     

Weaknesses                                                                   

- Lack of established feedback loop from ICANN
- Communication problems ICANN finance
- No possibility of ROI figure - "investing in At Large is like investing in R&D"
- ICANN currently only source of funds for At Large
- Lack of clear funding schedule/calendar with regards to face to face general assemblies introduces uncertainty
- We need to improve our interaction with the staff during the budget planning process.
- Gab between At-Large and the ICANN staff

Opportunities                                                                       
- Bottom-up budget structure for At Large
- Allocate part of the overall ICANN outreach and marketing budget to local outreach collaborating with RALO/ALSes
- Agree with ICANN finance on a calendar of recurring significant ICANN investment in At Large, like a company invests in Research & Development.
- Agree with ICANN finance on a calendar of recurring significant ICANN investment in At Large, like a company invests in Marketing and advertising for its products.
- Agree with ICANN finance on ROI metrics, whether they are quantifiable or only qualitative. Discuss with ICANN finance and Board what they wish to obtain from At Large.
- We should be supplying information on our needs in a  
 
- Supply information on At Large budget  needs in a timely manner and in the required format.

Threats                                                                            

- Individuals (Staff/Board/other constituencies) in ICANN structure not believing in At Large
- Shrinking Budget allows for no outreach
- Shrinking Budget allows  Limiting Budget:
    has direct impact on outreach
    allows for no face to face meetings, thus triggering ALS abandon to abandon, leading to end of At At   Large utility
- RALOs looking for outside (non-ICANN) sources of funding - is this acceptable to ICANN?