Annual Fundraising Plan 2013

Revenue Streams

1. OSE Trademark: licensing fees for the use of the OSE trademarks in a for-profit context.
2. Technical Support: fees for technical support form OSE for independent builders and entrepreneurs using our distributive enterprise models.
3. Grants
4. Individual Contributions
5. Merchandise:
   1. See: NGO Merchandise Sale Research
6. Documentation Sales: the documentation remains free, but a call to action - donation button is listed prominently on our documentation page to request donations from independent builders
7. Microfunding - True Fans Platform:
   1. See: True Fans Platform Log
   2. See: Progressive Exchange
8. GVCS Roadshow
9. Community Events
10. Chapter Fees
11. For-Profit Enterprise: a Factor e Farm-based for-profit entity sells GVCS machines and puts profits back into the non-profit organization.

Grants Strategy

1. Heuristic Approach:
   1. List of Organizations With Similar Mission
   2. List of Foundations That Funded Similar NGOs
   3. Community Survey of Funding Opportunities
2. Brute-Force Approach:
   1. Exhaustive List of Search Keywords
   2. Modular Proposal Writing System

Foundations - Prospects to Research

Overview:

• Sheet A - Heuristic Research: these are foundations that have funded non-profit organizations with similar missions to Open Source Ecology's. The data in the first column is dynamically referenced from the spreadsheet further down the page titled Foundations - Funded Similar NGOs, and it is filtered to remove redundancies. Each foundation will be looked at in-depth using the Foundation Directory Online and added to the Annual Grants Calendar if they meet our requirements.
• Sheet B - Brute Force Research: these are foundations that were identified through an exhaustive research process into all of the grant opportunities listed in the Foundation Directory Online. (See Search Keywords)

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NGOs - Similar Programmatic Activity

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Foundations - Funded Similar NGOs

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Search Keywords

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