It seems that non-university labs that need annual funding to keep the lights on either write a series of federal grants, do contract work to bring in income, or have a "front-company" in an unrelated field to generate cash. Writing grants is time-consuming and far from guaranteed, but maybe either of the last two might work. Could the lab do contract DNA bar-coding, shotgun library construction, plasmid preps? Is there a sequencer available? Obviously any of these options would require someone's time and skill, and that person would either have to be paid or be a very generous volunteer.
I think what isn't going to work is asking for donations on Google groups, or asking the Glowing Plant folks to fork over a hefty donation when there was no previous agreement to do so. Note: I think it would be appropriate of them to make such a donation, but they certainly aren't required to.
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