[Chapter-delegates] Day-to-day funding

Tue Mar 12 13:27:06 PDT 2013

Hi Elver

If i can add some remarks to your suggestions. 

- A campaign of 1k over 3 months can only be effective in case of an urgent need for action like in the case of Acta. 
Regular campaign yield results over several months - 1 year and are part of an awareness and image building strategy. It is not a bad idea but we should think about how to build a solid foundation for the long term in our chapters.

- I like your fifth suggestion. Isoc can come up with a chapter of the week campaign and I am sure this will be positively received by the wider Internet community, and give chapters a reason more to be proud of their work. 

- I second your third suggestion. Paid staff would be a great improvement to our functioning. 

E

Elena Zvarici
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Pe 12.03.2013, la 20:51, Elver Loho <elver.loho at gmail.com> a scris:

> How quickly could ISOC global roll out various low-cost pilot projects
> in this field to see what works in an agile "let's try things" manner?
> For example:
> 
> - 10 grants of $1000 to spend on local advertising and fundraising
> (not salaries) over 3 months and then report back to this mailing list
> with the exact measurements on the increase or decrease in donations
> and what exactly was done. Followed by another report 6 months later.
> 
> - Finding 10 active chapters with very few donations and offering to
> match every dollar they raise in donations over 3 months up to $1000.
> Followed by another report 6 months later.
> 
> - Picking 10 active, but underfunded chapters and having a 10-day
> drive on the front page of the ISOC global website, showcasing each
> chapter's people and accomplishments for a single day, and asking for
> donations for that particular chapter. ISOC global would need to take
> care of payment processing and such. This would be by far the easiest
> to measure.
> 
> - Something like the previous, but an "adopt-a-chapter" approach,
> where ISOC uses its publicity muscle to sell the idea that wealthy
> individuals could adopt a foreign chapter that's doing something good
> and get regular updates via e-mail.
> 
> - ISOC global providing funds to 10 active, underfunded chapters to
> hire a student journalist or student PR person for the summer as a
> paid intern, whose responsibility would be to write about what the
> chapter is doing, tweet, blog, facebook, publicize, etc.
> 
> - ISOC global sends an ambassador to the governments of a few local
> chapters urging the head of state to finance the chapter from the
> state budget. Bonus points if you can get a respected elected
> politician of a major country to go around doing this.
> 
> - ISOC global negotiates with a multinational civil society funding
> network (e.g. Open Society Foundations) to make it easier for local
> chapters to get regular funding via these means.
> 
> - etc.
> 
> The focus should be on experimental projects, which cost very little
> for ISOC, deal with active, but underfunded chapters, and provide
> rapidly measurable results. The aim is to find strategies, which help
> chapters become self-sufficient. I have no interest in relying on ISOC
> global's fat wallet in the long term, but it would be great to be able
> to measure the effectiveness of various fundraising ideas without
> having to spend what little cash we have at the moment.
> 
> We don't need a corporate approach here, nor a redistribution of
> existing funds. We need a skunkworks approach. We need a scientific
> approach, based on experiments and data. We're all in it together and
> we're in it to learn what works and doesn't work, so that we can make
> smarter decisions later.
> 
> Best,
> Elver
> Vice Chair
> Estonia Chapter
> 
> elver.loho at gmail.com
> +372 5661 6933
> skype: elver.loho
> 
> 
> On 12 March 2013 19:41, Ted Mooney <mooney at isoc.org> wrote:
>> True, Veni,
>> 
>> We would all favor more direct and immediate action.  And there is acute
>> awareness of the situation among many staff as well as chapter leaders.  My
>> point in the discussion is not just to vent, but to catalog and come back to
>> Chapters with the opportunity to prioritize a list of upgraded support
>> opportunities.  And that is still my intent.  Nevertheless if more
>> discussion and seeding of ideas is not what you would like at this point,
>> what advise to do you have for Chapter Support?
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Ted
>> 
>> 
>> Ted Mooney
>> Sr. Director, Membership & Services
>> Cell: 301-980-6446
>> Skype: ted.mooney3
>> 
>> www.internetsociety.org
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mar 12, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I am not so supportive of the discussion.
>> Every once in a while there's a discussion on that topic, and every once in
>> a while there are some great ideas, which are being shelved "for
>> consideration" by staff.
>> And nothing happens.
>> We discuss, over and over, and over - the same issues. More or less since
>> 2002, by the way. At least that's what I remember, when several of us, ISOC
>> Trustees, discussed that in Minneapolis at a Board meeting.
>> 
>> v.
>> 
>> On 03/12/2013 11:53, Ted Mooney wrote:
>> 
>> I support Eric's call for a the views and discussion on this list.  While it
>> will surprise no one to say that nothing will be done quickly, I would like
>> to work with Chapter leaders to develop a long term support plan for the
>> Internet Society that takes these needs and ideas into consideration, indeed
>> as a foundation.  I'm making no commitment that once a plan is developed it
>> will be fully implemented.  Such a decision is at the highest levels.
>> However, without a proposal that is complete and well thought-out, the
>> likely outcome is quite diminished.  So I am collecting these ideas for the
>> moment and will discuss alternatives for moving forward with ISOC Execs.
>> 
>> All the best,
>> 
>> Ted
>> oc.org
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Best,
>> Veni Markovski
>> http://www.veni.com
>> https://www.facebook.com/venimarkovski
>> https://twitter.com/veni
>> 
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>> with or related to him in any given way.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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