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

Tue Jul 14 17:44:23 PDT 2020

People's Park would appreciate a public test.  About 3:30 PM on a weekday
would probably be the best time.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020, 6:07 PM MS via ebfnb <ebfnb at lists.omnicommons.org>
wrote:

> Hey Jenny and Omni Commoners,
>
> This is very cool. Great work and important project proposal.
>
> I think this would be great to be posted on the Omni social media (is
> there an active Instagram ?) The visual video and description would
> probably get tons of outreach on there.
>
> Saw the flyers in the Dolores Park SF neighborhood and at Rainbow Grocery
> co-op this last weekend !
>
> Is there any Omni Commons meetings this week on everybody's favorite Zoom
> megamachine ?
>
> Dane
>
>
> https://interferencearchive.org/
> https://www.instagram.com/interferencearchive/
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 20:34 Jenny Ryan via ebfnb <
> ebfnb at lists.omnicommons.org> wrote:
>
>> Wanted to share this short video of our first #TestThePeople action -
>> kudos to Anka of LibLens for the videography and post-production work, par
>> excellence!
>>
>> https://youtu.be/hgjjBBaAjlw
>>
>> Please reach out directly if you have ideas around 1) future actions we
>> could support with pre- and post-action testing, 2) possible testing
>> locations (eg; school or church parking lots - ideally outdoors, ideally
>> with power), or 3) community org collaborations for popup COVID testing.
>>
>> <3
>> Jenny Ryan
>> *Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Technology Consulting*
>> 315.292.4656 | jennyryan.net
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 11:51 PM Jenny Ryan <jenny at jennyryan.net> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
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