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= Fundraising = Josef Krebs from Seattle: Hi, my name is Josef Krebs. I own a strategy company in Seattle called Scanduzzi Krebs. I'vbe been working w/ artists and arts organizations for 20 years. I have the goal of helping Noisebridge get enough momentum to raise enough money to buy a forever home. I got connected to Noisebridge becasue of David Molnar, who cnnec ted me to Mitch to talk about fundraising. In May 2018, I came here for "discovery" [insert notes from S|K] Create fundraising momentum to buy a Forever Home. David Molnar got wasted with Josef at the Summit. David called Josef and introduced Josef to Mitch. Breakdown of how to raise 4 million: The highest tiers of donations won't be from individuals but from large organizations (ex: city & county of SF, large corporations) aka institutional giving. Questions: David: We are a decade out from the last major recession, when there's another economic crisis, you're assuming revenue would remain the same? For 30 years? Josef: Matthew: our outlook is based on assumptions David: If you're pursuing grants, why not have the land donated by the city? Land is the part of assessed real property that inflates its cost. What about a community land trust - have you already decided on a traditional mortgage? Ryan: a lot of the projected income of NB is also assuming that whatever space we get will be a higher quality community value than NB's current location. Another space that we know we can fill up w/ tools & talented individuals would be better, because we have turned away a lot of tool donations, since there's a lack of space currently. Victoria: Background: noisebridge has never had a full scale fundraising campaign before. We just get donations that are enough for us to stay here. But because full scale fundraising is new, we are all also learning this at the same time. Josef: I know $4M sounds like a giant number. But it's an amount that I have raised for other organizations, so it's do-able and the money is out there. Noisebridge just needs to take the steps to get there. Anthoney: If NB runs across a non-profit developer, we might be able to convince them to let us use the ground floor for public benefit. Example: Saint Anthony's. David: I didn't hear, but are you charging a percentage "fee" (for running this campaign) or is this work pro bono? Josef: No percentage, on a contract basis. Josef: One of the organizations I've worked with is a theater company in Seattle that does something similar. We approach this by building relationships between NB & ppl who understand the whole ecosystem of nonprofit need in SF. We just need to connect with these organizations, to establish good partnerships that are beneficial. Ahmad: do we have a set of locations that we want? Matthew: we have a list of priorities. We would like the Mission. We prefer somewhere that's close to BART. Ryan: Before when we were working on getting our lease extended, we always found places that fit these requirements. Victoria: before we talk about individual donor bases, if you donate to Noisebridge listen up: Josef: We will start small. PIC (people in charge) are Victoria Fierce, Matt Arcidy, & Danny O'Brien. It's more important to grow the number of donors rather than focus on the individual amounts. Josef resumes presentation: Start mobilising individual donor base - Build individual giving process. Start small. Old saying. How do you download an elephant? One byte at a time. - start campaign, run through end of year - Victoria, Matt, reach out to DoB. - 15K from at least 100 donots. - focuson in # of donations, show momentum, interest, growing number of donots. - take money through paypal - engage through slack, email list, twitter. - individual giving committee full of a bunch of clowns. - reach out to 10 of top donors to see help. - seek 10 donor leaders to make a gife of any size,and find 10 ppl to help. - Ryan! Beka! Pheobe! Bernice! Terrance! Ahmad! Bernice: Do donations to the cash boxes count? Victoria: want email address Beka: I made a project on donate! donate.noisebridge.net/Forever_Home! And wiki - Word of mouth, social media bites, ppl should share the F&#$ out of this. - Campaign in waves, scheduled social media, emails and stuff! to beg for donations - Theme is to raise money by end of year by a number of donors - corporations might match! check with your evil greedy HR department. - Thanks strategy: email out within 48 hours, email at end of campaign, start at thank you team to engage ppl on regular basis to thank donors (eg get ppl to help write emails.) Ryan: so, when we reach out, should we just be asking for money at that money? For email? Victoria: Both Josef: we will be providing a written letter Victoria: who is excited to raise 4m dollars! Peanut Gallery: Wooo! Lily Rabbe to talk about grants and institutional giving. - Grants! - What is a grant: - Govt: City, State, Federal - private foundations: family, trusts, etc - Private foundations like family or someone who can incorporate that have a lot of money (example: the Gates Foundation). - to raise $4M, our target are larger plots like gov't. funding or larger private foundations. - We want to also make sure that the donors have the same values as the people at NB, so we can be comfortable about where the money is coming from. - Opportuits though businesses....(2 others?) - one thing I want to ask everyone in this room is to keep your ear to the ground. Please put this info in Slack's #fundraising, and tag @lily - throw opportunities in #fundraising-wg - See something, say something. - If everyone is looking, we will find stuff, etc. Faster, farther. - First grant: Expo 2020: Dubai - global Expo - Tech, education, stuff, who cares, it's 100K - need 60s video...CAN WE GET SOME FOOTAGE OF YOU AMAZING MOTHERFUCKERS RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW? - opt out if you want, that's totally awesome - <Bernice pulls out amazing camera for footage! It's super effective!> - do some one-liners, short, sweet, spicy - remember, no pressure, but 100K is on the line. - tech assistance grant - help with negotiations, and stuf - spend like 10m looking on line for this stuff. SF has tons of local non-profit HQs and they get grants from SF!. - not all grantors give to all organizations. Make sure NB qualifies, every grant has specific qualifications. Education, innovation, technology. Anarchy. Blinking Lights. - More people with ears too the ground and noses opn the grind stone will find opportunities. - many foundations will invite ppl to apply. Who do we know? Who do we have access to? Can we get a coffee with ppl like that? who will pay for teh coffee? - If you meet ppl, mention noisebridge! - Everyone thing of ways to connect people to opportunities and SK can help with communication. - 100K dropped like a bad habit in NB's lap. Apparently if you ASK for money, some people might even GIVE it to you. - Alyx: Back to personal share side, should we wait for the fundraising copy? No! Doocracy. Now, let's do it. If you can get money, go get it, don't wait for a bunch of slackers like Matt. If we start a pyramid scheme...err ICO...wait...I mean...... A CULT. Let's start a cult. Text everyone in your phone book! It can be intimidating to ask for money. Which is why we should rebrand as a cult! Lily: It's an opportunity to get involved in somehting they love. It's great to have other people find out about a place you love. And we can have 20,000 sqr feet to fill with these people we love. For a cult. 20,000 sqr feet is a lot of space to built illegal forts and try to sleep in. (The gala was moved to march to celebrate the equinox and fertility) X: what about permits? Nicole: more than 49 ppl and live music, need permit. Permit office is super awesome, I mean for a bunch of square non-cult member gov't squares man. Victoria: meetings will contain fundraising from now on as we are talking about Noisebridge's future. <Josef panders to audience by telling us how awesome we are and how cool this project is. Money earned.> <Applause> Victoria: volunteers to speak on camera about first time at NB? <Bernice literally pulls out a tri-pod, amazing.> <recordings delayed to later>
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