Fundraising

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This is a learning project to study fundraising, how it is done and how it is tracked.

Funding is the lifeblood of any venture -- without some money, there is no way to pay for lights and heat that allow a meeting space to be used.

Most modern funding takes the form of project funding -- money given for a certain project with a certain duration. Some organisations are endowments, whereby a large amount of money is invested, and the earnings that money makes is used to run the yearly "operating" budget.

[edit] Types of Funding/Fundraising

Initially, we are going to look into the area of grant funding, where a funding agency requires a proposal to affect a certain well-defined set of goals.

Later on, we could review the process of formal fundraising, whereby entities raise small amounts of money by public appeal.

[edit] Motivation for fundraising: Vision

To effectively raise funds, organisations need a vision of what the purpose for the funds will be. Often this is a project scope, but many times it can be the sole purpose for an organisation. With a vision, the organisation requiring funding can field a budget and build a proposal which can be submitted to various funding agencies.

[edit] Ideas for Grants

Video (in conjunctions with Wikinews) - This is the current focus. Hoping to incorporate this as an "outreach" proposal.

Writing bounties of some sort

OpenMoko/Internet_Kiosk

Study of how a large Internet site deploys software (MediaWiki for Wikimedia projects)

[edit] U.S. Grants

[edit] Canadian Grants

[edit] WMF grant links and groups

There is also an IRC channel dedicated to Wikimedia fundraising at: #wikimedia-fundraising (on Freenode)

[edit] Proposal Development

Steps to follow:

  • Write for Application forms and guides
  • Call a past grantee
  • Call a past reviewer
  • Contact the program officer

State the problem you are addressing, and how the project will meet the grantor's objectives with regards to this project.

[edit] See also

[edit] Resources for writing grants

  • Resources for writing grants for JISC - some useful analyses of previous grants, and thing to keep in mind for putting together a successful bid

[edit] External links

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