Resource Development Strategy

Introduction

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Introduction

Here is th e near-term and 2 year plan for resource development. Julia Valentine is heading the resource development effort:

• Blog post - How I got involved, what I'm doing now, goals for the next 2 years, starting with April 26
• Julia Introductory Video

See overview of GVCS strategic development - GVCS_50/2/2

Strategy

• Adrian Hong is serving as OSE business/nonprofit strategy advisor
• First item is to prepare the Donor Relations Package (DRP)
• Adrian will facilitate connections within TED community
• Aligning the opensourceecology.org with DRP
  • Adrian will assist on the message
• Involve Isaiah Saxon with further media development
• Secure office equipment for Missouri and California branches of OSE
• ?Donor visits to Factor e Farm
  • ?Requires preparation of infrastructure
  • ?Mobile Microhouse?
• CiviCRM - install it immediately; front and back end
• Crowdmap for viewing developers and extracting value into CiviCRM- Dan, Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, Sebastopol, etc.
• Develop a wide array of options with Adrian:
  • True Fans - when Civi up, we'll put all in there
  • Individual donors
  • Website donations
  • Microdonations like Flattr
  • Grants
  • Awards/Fellowships
  • TED community
  • Dedicated Project Sponsorship - with your name attached for posterity
  • Kickstarter

Donor Relations Strategy

• Donor Relations Package
  • Folder with a few Simple Trifold
  • Website completed and simplified
  • Intro from Director
  • One page overview of mission-like positioning
  • Budget Overall, and for each of the 50 tools, tool by tool; keep adding to Proposal 2012
    • Have individuals sponsor on a tool-by-tool basis
  • Status report - GVCS Tools Status but done properly
• Produce a full-fledged Documentary about half-way through the project
  • Possibly Ben Zolno, Sebastopol, or Sundance people from TED; fund this properly

Timeline

• April 26 - first complete draft of Resource Development Package
  • Overall package
  • Tool by tool package (47 packages)
• April 12 - Civi installed, and first tutorial for Marcin, Julia, Elifarley

Immediate Action Items

• Introduce Julia and Adrian to set up conference call around Friday April 1
• Work on securing office eqiupment
• Meeting with Judith Katz April 11 on database structure
• Follow up on Civi with Elifarley

Here we're