On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 10:48 +0200, oliverp wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 22:02 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > I think we can do more with organization sponsorship and individual > donations than we are doing right now. We have a product that is naturally of > interest to a lot of consumers and corporate users, and of interest to > hardware and application developers to be compatible with. We also have > technology that is of interest to people to build their own products with or > create services around. When it became known that the GNOME Foundation was in > a difficult financial situation, we received an unprecedented number of > individual donations. These were previously untapped donors who are very > supportive of GNOME. I think we should aim to increase how much we get in > private donations, and we can do that by reporting to our donors how their > money is being used and having yearly fundraising campaigns. We need to > dedicate our fundraising energy to these two sources because they are > complimentary to the goals we have for advancing our technology. As a > Foundation, even with an ED, we have lim > limited resources, so we need to consider how to allocate them most > effectively. > > > > I'd like to share a great article about fundraising by the Ada Initiative > > founders which has informed some of my views on it. > > http://modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-ada-initiative-founders-on-funding-activism-for-women-in-open-source That is a great article thanks for sharing! The Engagement Team have started a discussion [1] about how the Foundation can become more effective in the fundraising, and as part of that effort set-up a wiki page [2] with some resources on the subject (have added the post it to the wiki).
I hope you are interested in joining this effort, the Engagement Team want to collaborate closely with the Board in this. 1https://mail.gnome.org/archives/engagement-list/2014-April/msg00052.html 2https://wiki.gnome.org/Engagement/FriendsOfGNOME/HowWeCanImprove _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
