Ours is a truly international team. This season it included researchers from Ukraine and Russia, Britain and the US, Australia and Italy. This is a very important point, and I would like our readers to know how we raise funds for joint projects like this. In the US there is a large number of private non-profit foundations, which accumulate American donations to be further utilized in projects in many walk of life. Some foundations spend money, say, on combating cancer, others on supporting and promoting culture.
Some universities are fully dependent on money from such nonprofit foundations.
All we have to bear in mind is that all these foundations and organizations have no right to derive profit from the projects they finance. Contributions to nonprofit organizations are tax exempt, as are the funds accumulated by the foundations, but all these funds must be earmarked for the development of projects. This is the best possible way to encourage people to place money, at their wish, in the foundation that interests them, thus investing money in the development of the scientific, scholarly, or cultural field they are interested in. My principal job in our international project is to seek sources of funding, and, fortunately, there still are foundations interested in supporting and developing culture, including archeology. The preserve has been supplied with computers, and its the remnants of its urban settlement have been undergoing conservation since 1996.