Hiya Jim!
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jim Nelson <j...@yorba.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > Aside from corporate sponsorship and personal donations, what area(s) would > you investigate to increase and stabilize GNOME's finances? (Or do you feel > these two methods are the only or best way to achieve this goal?) Corporate sponsorship tends to bring in a lot of money in and it is always beneficial to be able to increase that. If you wanted to do grass roots based fundraising, that would require setting up a better donation system than we have now. We can definitely do better, and the board has had some discussions about alternative systems last year. Some people have suggested using flattr or some other method of micro-payments that could bring in revenue. I think I threw out something about tying donations to bug fixes. You could setup marketing calls to various companies who might be using our stack and ask for donations that way for smaller amounts like 1000 dollars or 5000 dollars. In general, they do okay, but they won't be very large. You need to grow the audience to really take advantage of that strategy. Another idea might be to take advantage of funding opportunities like grants from the government or companies. We don't necessarily have to make a technology argument, we could focus on programs like OPW or our underlying philosophy of freedom. We are after all a philanthropic organization, we could make that argument. Here is a grant application from JP Morgan as an example: http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Corporate-Responsibility/grant-programs Of course this one is corporate, but I'm sure we can find others. Another idea is to fundraise at conferences, and not necessarily our tech ones. Most of fundraising is about making 1:1 connections and then making a compelling argument. sri > > -- Jim > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list