Global Fundraising circle meeting - 9 of Sep (Thursday) at 20:00 (Irish time)

[ferrazfil]

link for meeting here

Updated Agenda (following on some of the comments made in previous weeks + click links for pre-discussion):

• Welcome [5min]
• Defining this circle (general premise + scope + purpose), building on @lauriewayne1 suggestion [5min]
• The way we work (our tools, n. meetings, people) [10min]
• Following-up on some philanthropy contacts (from last year beginning of this year).
  (@NickWeir would be great if you could provide some context for this). Nick says: This link provides a summary of the work we did on this with our professional fundraiser. There are several leads in here that we can follow up. [15min]
• Having a presence in social impact/open source directories associated with funding (eg.: Open Collective, Goodmarket.global, etc)? [5min]
• Integration between OFN and LiteFarm; [5min]
• OFN used in humanitarian support; [5min]
• AoB [5min]
• next steps [5min]
• next meeting date [5min]

For this meeting we will need:

• a facilitator (it can be me, but doesn’t have to be)
• a time-keeper (we have an hour so let us make the mos of it)
• note-taker(s) (probably better to have more than one person so that everyone can have the chance to participate)

Feel free to add your name

[lauriewayne1]

I suggest two additional items:

Agree on general assumptions around fundraising for OFN, like

• “user fees do not provide enough financial support to an instance” and
• “all OFN instances and the global OFF are not for profit/nonprofit/benefit corps in their country” and
• “we don’t take money from people like Amazon”

Scope and purpose of our work together - who is this meeting for and what does this circle do?

• Specific focus is fundraising for the global organization
• Circle will provide feedback on country/regional level funding applications as requested but will not do or provide training for how to write a grant

[ferrazfil]

As a contribution to the scope item: This circle should focus initially on bigger funding applications (100K or over) that can support the overall global platform. Either for tech support or other needed areas (eg.: communications; coordination; etc.).

On the long term it could also work on setting trainning sessions but this should not take place at the start.

[NickWeir]

I am happy to be a note taker. I suggest we only record decisions and actions. Is this OK?

Here are the links for the philanthropy contacts

[ferrazfil]

@NickWeir thank you for the context, now just one last item is there is a plan on who should be contacted first? are we going to be deciding that in this circle?