Fundraising Strategy

Our goal is to raise $1,1 million from the non-profit sector till June 1, 2012. This is the current fundraising strategy and it will developed over time. Everybody is welcome to contribute and help!

Strategy

Create a fundraising team to find Funding Sources appropriate to the OSE Work. Distribute the tasks to the people in the team and start working on them.

Fundraising Status

Fundraising Status - 0k from $1M (October 23, 2011)

Amount	Source	Timing and Comments
$100k	Kauffman Grant Proposal	Promised, not received yet.
$350k	Shuttleworth Fellowship Application	Invited, application to be written till November 1, result will be known till November 30.
$550k	USA and European Foundations and Individuals	Read our Fundraising Strategy and help us.

Join

If you want to make the fundraising effort happen, please:

• Join the fundraising team.
  • Find foundations, individuals and governmental programs.
  • Write grant proposals
  • Keep good communication between the donors and OSE.
• Share lists of foundations funding sustainable projects - preferably
• Share possible funding source for OSE.

5% of the raised money will be distributed to the fundraising team.

Please send an email to Nikolay if you want to help: nikolay (at) opensourceecology (dot) org

Short-Term Goals

till October 28

• Find at least 5 people for the fundraising team.
  • Currently: Nikolay Georgiev and Will Cleaver.
• Clarify with Marcin how the money can be spend (Nikolay).
• Identify at least 50 Foundations for OSE in the Prospect Table.
• Write down the value created by the design and prototyping of the machines.
• First fundraising team meeting - October 23. Corrections made if needed.

Oct 29 - Nov 4

• Write to at least 30 of the most appropriate Foundations.
• Identify 20 more Foundations for OSE in the Prospect Table.
• Plan next 2 weeks and 3 months ahead.

Funding Sources

• USA Foundations (most probable)
• European Foundations (less probable)
• Other Foundations
• Government, in the USA. (less probable)
• Individuals

OSE Work

• local manufacturing
• sustainable agriculture
• ecological housing
• local renewable energy production
• open source hardware and software
• long-term sustainable solutions
• social enterprise
• environment
• education, skills building

Tasks

• Finding external help or advice for the tasks.
• Finding people for the Fundraising Team from USA and Europe.
• Find who is funding good/famous (OS) sustainable projects.
• If an foundation does not accept solicitation requests, ask what the foundation is funding? and after that share what we are doing and see if they have some interest to help us.
• Writing grant proposals.
• Answer to: What value are we creating by open sourcing a specific machine?

Documentation

• Every person in the fundraising team will document their work daily in a Log file, such as YourName_Log.
• All found appropriate foundation and the communication status will be documented in the Prospect Table.
• All grants will be under the Category:Grant_Proposals. Every grant should contain the content, HTML or text, and a linked document file as in Kauffman Proposal.

for Marcin

• How will be the money spent? A plan for prototyping and documentation, which machines will be developed when.

Other Business Models

• End-User Supported Funding
  • Create and grow the network of people, organizations and communities which need a specific machine and want to support its development by funding or other resources.