Resource Development Conference Call

Meeting agenda: Marcin Jakubowski and Julia Valentine, March 16, 2011

1. Julia's Role Commitments for 2011

1. Project manager for nonprofit team
2. Develop Organizational Structure for Fundraising.
3. Organizational structure for for-profit
4. Establish organizational structures to support growth of the project.
5. Crowdsourcing - kickstarter
6. Grants and awards - and individual donors
7. Judith Katz -March 27
8. Carolyne Stayton - March 17
9. Fundraiser Professional Uncle - next

2. Fiscal Sponsorship (FS) Contract – status, parties identified, and review

1. 2/3
2. Parties: Terra Foundation and OSE as an unincorporated organization
3. FS cut 1 by Thursday, 17th march

3. FS with unincorporated org → incorporation → tax exempt status

1. Revisit incorporation after promotional materials are done

4. Fundraising Timeline Goals and Priotized

1. Friday - bank account set up, and initial fundraising started - friends, awards
2. Set up FS, bank account, donor relations materials, CiviCRM,
3. CiviCRM deadline by March 26
4. Full swing - May 1
5. First quarter after full swing - June 10 vacation to August 17 - get into full circle of big donors
6. Second quarter - August 21 - all funded by then
7. Third quarter - goals are ambitious for full amount

5. Julia's Pay Structure

1. 10% until a base level of $65k per year; if ramps up, last month may be more than 65/12k

6. Julia's introductory video?

1. Will ask angel

7. Accountability procedures – what measures are in place to have money go

1. Structural - marketing materials outline the trace of the money allocation process
2. Money to OSE account -> only Marcin has signing powers
3. Julia will find procedures by the 24th; consult Adrian on this possibly

8. Transparency Procedures for Resource Development continuity and expansion – Civi?

1. Julia talks to Elifarley

1. Technical forum moderated and by invitation only, wiki notes as locked pages, and access-restricted CiviCRM database

2. Resource Database for OSE

9. Office: software + equipment requirements and procurement

10. Marketing materials – graphics people and Isaiah's assistance

1. Process- portfolio to Isaiah, team meeting with designer, design done, checked by Isaiah

11. Terra Foundation website assistance; domain name and hosting; design; implementation

12. Marketing materials + deployment priority plan – materials identified and written

13. Angel's Role - definition

14. Luis Role and open source franchising of resource development operations?

15. Adrian's strategic advisory role – definition and goals that we'd like to have him assist on; leveraging TED network

16. Goals for after 50/2/2 period

17. Other issues?

18. marcin at opensourceecology dot org, and julia at opensourceecology dot org

1. Elifarley - can we do that immediately