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

Judith Gips yipslsquirrel2 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 19:37:37 PDT 2020 

what is the accuracy (sensitivty and selectivity) of the test? have t jey
been idenpenden t ly ra t ed ( t here are many false negat ves on angen t
es t s) antbody based, PCR diagnostic of ac t ce infection, or antiigen? I
also feel I need to read up on the corpora te s truc ture of a "public
benefit t crpora tion" and what its rela tionship to a 501x(3) nonprofit is.

I am interested in EBFNB involvement but there is much to be understood
here.




On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 5:54 PM Arthur Fonseca via ebfnb <
ebfnb at lists.omnicommons.org> wrote:

> 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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