[sudo-discuss] Earn Money Helping Sudo Room: Write Grants - Get 50%.

Thu Apr 3 01:53:55 PDT 2014

Uhm - whomever writes the grant, will presumably write it to support a
project of their choosing anyway. Most grants *are* for projects, not the
"give us $1000 to do with what we want because we're cool" variety that
sudoroom has managed to land so far. Are you suggesting to tack on a 100%
overhead for sudo room?

At BioCurious, we've had a few occasions to discuss what overhead rates
would be appropriate for a hacker space, and the consensus was that
something in the 20% range was reasonable. Funding agencies understand
overhead rates, and 20% will seem very affordable to them.

So if someone were to write a grant to raise $5K for a project, they would
tack on an extra $1K to the budget as overhead for sudoroom. And if someone
happened to raise half a million in a kickstarter for a project, and pass
along a nice percentage to run the project out of sudo room - well, let's
just say that would buy free Mate for everyone for quite a while...

Patrik

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Hol Gaskill <hol at gaskill.com> wrote:

> i like the idea that the 50% goes to a sudo room project of all the grant
> writers' choosing and 50% to the space
>
> on Apr 02, 2014, Jenny Ryan <tunabananas at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >I appreciate the brainstorm on fundraising, and as someone who's
> >written half a dozen grants this past year, I also appreciate just how
> >much time and energy it takes to do so.
> >
> >However, I think this is a bad idea. Namely, because it uses individual
> >financial incentivization of what should be the natural incentive to
> >help the community you participate in.
> >
> >Receiving a set-upon grantwriter stipend if we get the grant? Cool.
> >Receiving 50% of any funds procured from essentially bragging about the
> >community? Not cool, and probably not compliant with the terms and
> >conditions of most grants.
> >
> >Relevant wiki page for finding funding opportunities and documentation
> >from past grants: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Funding
> >
> >Also, the projected date for the Omni move-in (WHICH IS LOOKING REALLY
> >REALLY POSSIBLE) is June 1st, not July 1st, and we would probably be
> >organizing a crowdfunding campaign before then.
> >
> >Just my two cents!
> >- -Jenny
> >
> >On Wed 02 Apr 2014 09:56:59 PM PDT, Marc Juul wrote:
> >> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Maximilian Klein <isalix at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> Hello at this week's meeting we made a new fundraising strategy, that
> is
> >>> participatory.
> >>>
> >>> ==Background==
> >>> Last year we won two $4,000 cash grants, and a $2,000 3D printer just
> by
> >>> being sudo room and filling out forms.
> >>>
> >>> ==New fundraising Idea==
> >>> 1. Any sudoer can fill out, or add to this list of 41 grants to apply
> for.
> >>> 2. The grant writers for an application will receive a recommendation
> at a
> >>> sudomeeting to get 50% commission for applying on sudo's behalf.
> >>> 3. We organize on fundraising at lists.sudoroom.org , so sign up there to
> >>> discuss
> >>
> >> That might be difficult to accomplish for some grants (we'll have to
> >> look at individual grant's terms and conditions) but if not possible
> >> for a certain grant, maybe we can let the grant-writer spend them on a
> >> sudo room project of their choosing instead? Of course it should be a
> >> project related to the kinds of things that sudo room does and should
> >> be open/free/libre.
> >>
> >>> ==Medium-Term Strategy===
> >>> 1. We think that if the Omni-move-in happens, we would like to
> fundraise
> >>> with them together as a unit. We will wait until July 1st.
> >>>
> >>> 2. If the Omni falls through, then we will have a sudo space individual
> >>> fundraiser. Idea is a harmonious-hackathon / pay-what-you-can dev
> bootcamp
> >>> one weekend. It can be paired with this idea:
> >>> 2.1 Offer to host an RSVP Dinner w/ Francisco and Liberation Food
> Worker
> >>> Cooperative
> >>>
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> >
> >
> >- --
> >Jenny
> >http://jennyryan.net
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> >
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