[Imc-africa] raising money from IMCs

[Jay]

At 10/9/2006, you wrote:
>Hey Jay
>What exactly would you need from volunteers?
>Glenda

Just people willing to spend some time on e-mail and going through IMC web 
sites and mailing lists to find active individuals in different IMCs who 
may be willing to hold a fundraiser for the IMC.  Preferably the actual 
e-mail trying to inspire the fundraising should come from someone who is 
African or is in Africa, though the rest of us could help with developing 
the contact list and coordinating to make sure any money that's raised 
makes it to the right place.

Jay


>--- Jay <idiot at jaysand.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi imc-africa,
> >
> > I'm excited to see so many ideas for fundraising
> > flowing for the WSF IMC
> > and so many of us interested in doing the necessary
> > work to make this happen.
> >
> > As we apply for small grants from foundations I also
> > think we should appeal
> > directly to IMCs throughout the network to help us
> > raise money through
> > having parties or other fundraisers.  I doubt we
> > could raise $5000, but I
> > bet with some coordination we could bring in a
> > thousand or even two
> > thousand dollars.  This has worked for imc-africa in
> > the past-- various
> > IMCs had parties to support the Dakar conference,
> > right?  I remember the
> > Philly IMC raised a few hundred dollars.
> >
> > Would anyone from this list, preferably someone from
> > Africa, be willing to
> > work with me to personally contact as many IMCs as
> > possible to invite them
> > to be involved?  I know Sphinx will volunteer, but
> > someone else too, as
> > Sphinx is already doing so much. :)  We could sent
> > bulk e-mails and spam
> > imc lists but the most effective thing to do will be
> > to work a bit to find
> > personal contacts at each IMC.  We'll need to invest
> > some time, but we
> > could get some results.
> >
> > In my opinion, this kind of fundraising would be
> > really
> > satisfying.  Foundations have money but they also
> > have strings
> > attached.  Plus, we may agree fundamentally with
> > some of the funders or
> > partners of some of the foundations who give grants
> > in these areas (such as
> > IREX, which may have partners we don't want to
> > partner with).
> >
> > Any one want to help?
> > Jay
> >
> >
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