Fundraising Strategy
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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
| 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 by the team will be distributed to every member of the fundraising team, if the team member has shown commitment and produced results:
- found at least 10 foundations and
- wrote at least 3 grants.
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.