Fundraising

Fundraising Guild handles fundraising-related tasks such as PR and outreach efforts, and also helps moderate such efforts done do-ocratically by our members. Donor Relations: Ryan(Pyconaut), NthMost Maintainers: Ryan(Pyconaut), NthMost, Lxpk Channels: #fundraising on Slack.

Where to find us

1. a mailing list
2. #fundraising-wg on the Noisebridge slack

Goals

1. Recurring donations needs to exceed monthly expenses
2. Events and campaigns to raise one-time donations and get people to become recurring donors
3. Grow participation along with sustained donations from philanthropy and membership.
4. Secure Noisebridge's future by raising enough to buy a physical building rather than leasing
5. Regularly ask for Corporate Philanthropists

Current Projects

• NB14: Planning Noisebridge's grand reopening fundraiser.
• Donation Sign: Rebuild of the 2169 donation signage as an LED-powered real-time physical donation system.
• No Starch Grant 2022: No Starch has a grant cycle open to apply for.

Past Campaigns

Raising the Fun

Raising the Fun is a campaign which started in August 2018 with a goal to purchase a building before the lease at 2169 Mission ended.

Noisebridge Space Program (NBSP;)

NBSP; was the search for a new building which started in 2016. While not an official fundraising campaign, fundraising was a significant component. This campaign was abandoned when the lease at 2169 was extended till August 2019.

Tools

Press Kit

Fundraising/Fundraising Copy A repository for text which can be used for communication about the fundraising campaign

Fundraising/Stories Guidelines to record and create stories for fundraising

Little Green Light

How to Help

Recruiting

Fundraising working group is recruiting to grow Noisebridge's funding sources in a number of areas.

1. ongoing fundraising to increase Patreon donors,

Data

Noisebridge has many data sources:

1. Stripe
2. PayPal
3. Direct Deposit
4. bitcoin
5. ... and other income

Data centralization provides timely important information to the cause.

donate.noisebridge.net codebase on Github can be extended to house this functionality.

History

• Meeting_notes_2018_03_27
• New_space_meeting_2017_11_11
• New_space_meeting_2017_11_18
• New_space_meeting_2017_12_02
• New_space_meeting_2017_12_09
• New_space_meeting_2017_12_16
• New_space_meeting_2018_02_27
• New_space_meeting_2018_03_06
• New_space_meeting_2018_03_13
• New_space_meeting_2018_03_20
• New_space_meeting_2018_03_27
• New_space_meeting_2018_04_03
• New_space_meeting_2018_04_10
• New_space_meeting_2018_04_17
• New_space_meeting_2018_04_24
• New_space_meeting_2018_05_01

Related pages

• Corporate_Philanthropists
• Fundraising_Copy_-_Curated
• Fundraising/Case_Statement
• Fundraising/Raising_the_Fun/Clear_Plan:_Rent
• Fundraising/Raising_the_Fun/Fundraising_Roadmap
• Fundraising/Raising_the_Fun/Individual_Donor_Plan
• Noisebridge_Space_Program
• Noisebridge_Space_Program/Fundraising_Tasks
• Noisebridge_Space_Program/Professional_Fundraising_Guidance
• Notes_on_San_Francisco_Nonprofit_Space_Investment_Fund_meeting

• Space walk spread sheet — documenting possible locations