[sudo-discuss] Fwd: Proposal - Fiscally Sponsor renegade.bio's 'Test the People' Project

[Jake]

Of course I think this is a great idea!!!!!!!!

-jake

On Fri, 3 Jul 2020, Jenny Ryan wrote:

> Up for consensus at next Omni Delegate's meeting is fiscally-sponsoring
> renegade.bio's free public COVID-19 testing. Input welcome!
> Jenny Ryan
> *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting*
> 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Jenny Ryan <jenny at jennyryan.net>
> Date: Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 11:51 PM
> Subject: Proposal - Fiscally Sponsor renegade.bio's 'Test the People'
> Project
> To: <consensus at lists.omnicommons.org>
>
>
> Discussed initially at tonight's 7/2/2020 Delegate's Meeting:
>
> Full proposal with amendments at:
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/13cJJh1HiQK5m8PC-diO7-D_jBjNudpRD?usp=sharing
>
> 2 July 2020
>
> Name of Project: Test the People
>
> Address: 5700 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Suite 1531
>
> Phone Number: 415.338.9306
>
> Email Address: jenny at renegade.bio
>
> Website: https://testthepeople.org
>
> Legal organization form of Project:   For-Profit Public Benefit Corporation
> Describe the proposed project.
>
> renegade.bio is a Queer-owned and -operated Public Benefit Corporation.
> Founded in response to the pandemic, renegade.bio provides COVID-19 testing
> to underserved communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City.
> This past Sunday, renegade.bio launched our first free public COVID-19
> testing event at #PrideIsARiot (see TestThePeople.org)
> <https://testthepeople.org>. - we collected over 250 samples and delivered
> results to patients within 24 hours. Unfortunately, we were unable to
> secure funding for these essential public health endeavors from any of the
> entities that should be funding them: SF Dept of Public Health, Alameda
> County Dept of Public Health, nor California CDPH.  There are those who
> want to donate to support our efforts, but as a Public Benefit Corporation
> (see Appendix A
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hp58xQozEFYNA_0D-R35OLTjpXc7LbIi/view?usp=sharing>)
> we're unable to accept donations. Previous donations have been forwarded to
> a sister organization, Vaugn's Wings of Hope, which supports patients with
> a terminal illness and COVID in the Midwest. In order to continue providing
> free COVID-19 testing to underserved communities, we do indeed need funding
> for rent, payroll, equipment, reagents, and PPE. As such, we propose a
> crowdfunding campaign in collaboration with grassroots organizations
> committed to the health and well-being of our most vulnerable. Because:
> #WeKeepUsSafe.
> How will the project promote Omni's charitable purposes?
>
> COVID-19 impacts Black, Brown, and Indigenous people the hardest, due in
> part to unequal access to testing and other healthcare. We believe that the
> only way we’ll be able to get through this pandemic is via free,
> widely-available, accurate, recurring, and accessible testing. Our mission
> with Test the People aligns with several of Omni’s core missions, including
> “to provide relief to the poor, distressed and underprivileged” as well as
> “carrying on scientific research in the public interest.”
> Attach a page showing the Project budget and the time period for the
> Project.
>
> To support Omni Commons during this difficult time, we are proposing the
> high end of administrative fees - 15% of donations received through this
> campaign, which we intend to keep rolling as we plan and popup more free
> public testing events for as long as testing is needed. Donations received
> through this campaign will go solely toward paying for expenses incurred
> directly in putting on free public testing events - a sample budget from
> our first popup event is attached as Appendix B
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oazUaND09-NoU8ra9qHLRprF_hesJMj8a54T-CdNBH0/edit?usp=sharing>
> .
> Your organization’s history, mission, and goals.
>
> renegade.bio is a team of scientists, entrepreneurs, and community
> organizers, mobilizing in the public interest to provide rapid,
> cost-effective, end-to-end COVID-19 diagnostic testing for city and county
> public health. Longtime Omni organizers Jenny Ryan and Marc Juul are both
> full-time employees at renegade.bio, which was founded by Counter Culture
> Labs and Real Vegan Cheese member Craig Rouskey.
>
> Renegade.bio is accelerating humanity’s capacity to test for novel
> pathogens such as COVID-19. Our work empowers an overburdened public health
> system to respond swiftly to epidemiologic crises by delivering fast,
> reliable, cost-effective solutions for community-based triage.
>
> In collaboration with other labs, researchers, and organizations across the
> ecosystem of public health, renegade.bio is working day and night with a
> singular goal: to help make COVID-19 testing accessible to everyone in
> America, regardless of income—because we know it will take nothing less to
> end this pandemic.
> Your organization’s current programs, activities, and accomplishments.
>
> Since April, we have been conducting COVID-19 testing in NYC in our shared
> lab space at the New York Genome Center. Recently, we obtained our license
> to operate our Oakland lab, which is located at the Children’s Hospital ORI
> just ten blocks north of Omni Commons.
>
> This past Sunday, renegade.bio launched our first free public COVID-19
> testing event at #PrideIsARiot (see TestThePeople.org)
> <https://testthepeople.org>. - we collected over 250 samples and had
> results delivered to patients within 24 hours. We are conducting follow-up
> testing this Sunday, July 5th at the same site in Dolores Park, for which
> 200 of our registrants have registered so as to participate in generating
> data on community spread as these important mass actions continue. We will
> have an additional 250 spots available for this Sunday, so pre-register at
> the link above and help keep your community safe!
> The geographic area and target population served.
>
> Our labs operate in New York City and Oakland, California - however, we can
> and do accept samples from across the country. For our public testing
> popups, we are planning to provide popup testing at actions and in areas
> where testing is unavailable, inaccessible, or overloaded. Our first popup
> testing at #PrideIsARiot specifically aimed to serve Queer, Trans, Black,
> Brown and Indigenous People of Color. We hope to bring our next popup site
> to areas of East Oakland where testing is not currently widely available.
> Estimate the number of people to be served.
>
> Our capacity is 1,000 samples a day, so we hope to serve at least that many
> per month. However, since a single positive case can infect potentially
> hundreds of people, it’s impossible to quantify exactly how many people
> would be positively impacted by our testing.
> The roles and responsibilities of staff, volunteers, and the board specific
> to this grant request.
>
> Staff:
>
>   -
>
>   Community Outreach - research on communities and geographic areas in
>   need of testing; outreach to potential community partners;
>   -
>
>   Marketing - manage crowdfunding campaign and social media; creation of
>   multi-lingual marketing materials;
>   -
>
>   Operations - identifying accessible sites for sample collections;
>   budgeting; site-based operational logistics;
>   -
>
>   Sample Collection - Samples are safely collected at mobile sites by Bay
>   Area PLS, one of renegade.bio’s partner organizations;
>   -
>
>   IT - Ensuring the security and privacy of patient data in accordance
>   with HIPAA - renegade.bio’s IT team manages the patient data portal, in
>   which requests for patient samples are made by a requisitioning physician,
>   and the LIMS (laboratory inventory management system), which manages the
>   flow of individual samples from collection to results. Patient registration
>   and results reporting are managed by Primary, our partner.
>   -
>
>   Clinical Lab Scientists - process samples and analyze results in our
>   labs.
>
>
> Volunteers are welcome and assist in greeting patients, ensuring the safe
> and hygienic flow of traffic at the testing site, and registering patients
> in our secure portal provided by Primary.
> Describe your criteria for success. What do you realistically want to
> happen as a result of your activities?
>
> renegade.bio would like to continue testing the community in open and
> accessible ways. Success is defined by testing underrepresented
> communities, nationwide. From Fruitvale to Immokalee, to the Navajo Nation,
> making testing available to at-risk, underserved communities is in our DNA.
> Success is defined by actual tests performed, and terminal success is
> achieved through a decrease in positivity rates in at-risk populations.
> Preventing outbreaks, protecting our communities, and delivering access to
> healthcare to folks from all walks of life is our mission.
> How will you measure changes?
>
> Changes in public health information, positivity rates, are based on
> physical healthcare data. Our website tracks overall statistics for a given
> action, and we work to make this data available to communities that need
> it. Facilitating knowledge during a pandemic, in which people do not have
> access to their ‘status’ means we can help communities build a safer
> foundation for a better future. Reports summarizing activities, including
> income and expenses for Test the People, can be furnished for Omni Commons
> upon request.
> Who will be involved in evaluating this work?
>
> Our results are reported to the state of California and patients’ County of
> residence as required by law. Our SARS-CoV-2 test is FDA-approved, and
> samples are processed in our CLIA-certified lab using positive and negative
> controls.
> What will you do with the results of your evaluation? How will it be used
> to affect the Project?
>
> For community transparency, we will post testing statistics and summary
> results on TestThePeople.org, including totals for negative and positive
> tests and demographic categories. These totals will not include any
> protected or personal health information. We are also required by law to
> share these totals with the state of California.
> Provide copies of your governing documents, roster of officers, and a
> complete and filed IRS Form SS-4, showing the Project's separate existence
> as an organization.
>
>   -
>
>   Form SS-4 - see Appendix A
>   <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hp58xQozEFYNA_0D-R35OLTjpXc7LbIi/view?usp=sharing>
>   -
>
>   Governing Documents and Roster of Officers - See Appendix C
>   <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fabnxemby9-LrSOqZhj77IJAhfLcb0kE/view?usp=sharing>
>
> Provide a list of the Project's choice of funding sources to be approached
> and the text of all fundraising materials.
>
>   -
>
>   IndieGoGo rolling crowdfunding campaign pitch text to be sent when
>   completed, and prior to campaign launch - see TestThePeople.org
>   <http://testthepeople.org> to get a sense of our messaging;
>   -
>
>   Potential grants as opportunities arise.
>
>
> Jenny Ryan
> *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting*
> 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net
>