Fundraising SC minutes 2/4/2005

Nosi Fund raising sub committee Minutesminutes 2/4/05:Present: Reuben, John, RichReuben: [made some announcements which he will pass on to other SC members]Reuben: where are we going with fund raising. Has anything been done?Rich: recapped where we were with the IBM project, and said he handed it off to John. John: I have much less time to work on NOSI stuff than I originally intended do to job considerations. More like 8-10 hours of week. Therefore I have focused on stuff I could do easily i.e help build conversation on the list, work on the website. Besides gathering names of some potential funders, and starting to work on a boiler plate for NOSI Fund raising docs, I haven't done any Fund raising work.Now that I have Reg from IBM's contact info, I will contact him to get a feeling for where the project stands before working on the document prepared by Rich and myself.Rich: Pointed out that there wasn't a consensus on projects to be undertaken and how that might affect our plans for funding. Rich said we probably should define a plan, try to raise some money, and not plan to raise more $$ than thatReuben: feels like he would like to see us to do the groundwork to be able to act on a fund raising plan. We haven't had a larger plan [not clear what plan Reuben mean here?] for years now and thats what slowing us down.Lists of potential funders. Talking to other groups about who they are getting funded by. The sub committee can work on this.Rich: Wants SC members to respond to a survey about general direction. We could then try to identify areas that could be driven by list members and solicit help. Lists members could work on these “teams” with lots of independence, and would check in with the SC to make sure that the direction was in line with NOSI's goals.Q: What structure would allow all list members to participate. It would probably would need to be a different sort of organizational structure. Rich mentioned the idea of having the coord work to develop several 'task forces' that the sc identified would make sense to involve people on a voluntary basis.Q: Whats the relationship between funders, list members, sc members, and other orgs?John will follow up with a phone call to Reg, ideas for ways to use volunteers will be brought up with full SC