Fundraising is far more a public relations/communications function than
finance or tech. All finance needs to do is say how much money we need;
tech can assist in the implementation but the success or failure of a
fundraiser depends on how effective we are communicating with the
donors. I'd recommend fundraising be a function of the communications
committee with significant help from other group within the foundation.
Michael
Anthere wrote:
Daniel Mayer wrote:
--- Anthere <Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
So,
I'd say we would definitely benefit from a fundraising. It is not
*urgent* but we need to anticipate before it becomes urgent.
I told the board before that I will not run another fundraiser without the
help from a duly
created fundraising committee. Nobody from the board has proposed the creation of such a
committee
yet and I won't waste my time (as I did with trying to help staff the finance
committee) until the
board acts.
Now, now...shhhh
Right, we never succeeded to create a decent financial committee.
This said, I am not convinced the fundraising should be part of the
financial committee (it involves as well technical needs, communication
issues etc...) and I would suggest that we should not get stuck on such
bureaucratic details.
Let's simply create a fundraising committee. If some one wants to
dissolve it later, or attached it to another already existing
committee... fine.
Can you draft for us a resolution with
* the creation of a fundraising committee
* description of the goal
* a team
* a delegation for this fundraising
I'll post it on the board wiki and we'll see if the board acts (votes...)
(make it several resolutions if you feel necessary)
We also really should pass a budget for the rest
of the year before we have a fundraiser. I'm
going to send the spending forecast you aleady have to the officers and committees this
weekend.
Hopefully, it won't take long to turn that into a proposed budget for the board to
vote one.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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