Administration
Support for the Internet Shakespeare Editions provides a remarkably cost-effective way of investing in high-quality content. Much of the site has been developed with the help of volunteers: our Creative Director, our editors and editorial boards, and our Board of Directors all contribute their time unstintingly.
All funds go to support the site. Funds raised in our Making Waves campaign will be put towards an endowment to ensure continuing support for
- the refinement of our current software,
- the updating of our resources,
- covering the modest infrastructure costs a non-profit organization incurs.
The endowment funds will be administered by the Development Office of the University of Victoria.
As a non-profit site, the costs of our project are kept to a minimum, thanks both to the University of Victoria, which generously provides infrastructure support, and to a small army of professional and scholarly volunteers who provide content. We employ talented students for programming, data entry, and copy-editing -- and in the process they acquire marketable skills.
How we spend our money
Since the bulk of the cost of our infrastructure is covered by the University of Victoria, our funds can be spent almost exclusively on maintaining and enhancing the site. We employ student assistants, providing them with valuable work-place experience, and our organization with a keen, up-to-date awareness of student needs and current computer trends. The only overhead we pay is for the standard needs of a non-profit organization: modest accounting and legal expenses.
Please view the list of student assistants who have worked for us over the years. All have moved on to productive work either in graduate school or the marketplace, thanks in part to the training they have received working for the ISE.
Please become a Friend of the ISE by filling in the form on our Membership page.