[Imc-africa] raising money from IMCs

[Glenda Loebell]

Hey Jay 
What exactly would you need from volunteers?
Glenda

--- 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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Glenda Loebell-Ryan
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