{"body":{"post":{"id":"5a515y3i2r5w461u732b","createdAt":"2023-10-10T14:19:48.494Z","updatedAt":"2023-10-10T14:19:48.494Z","title":"Wolfcon 2023 - Fundraising Ideas","content":"# Fundraising\n\n1. **Shared grants**\n\n- Work across projects to make applying for grants easier and, hopefully, more successful.\n\n2. **Open donations**\n\n- Using vs contributing\n  - \"My library isn't just _using_ this, they're _part_ of this!\n\n3. **Crowd-funding: have we worked with a platform before?**\n\n- Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, for example.\n- Mario:\n  - It's hard to receive public service donations.\n  - funding proposals through the project or OLF?\n- Try to reach outside the contributor and library community.\n- DK: would need some specific objective and deadline.\n  - for now, we're opening up without those restraints.\n  - we can also use how we apply that to raise more funds in the future.\n- Peter: has anyone else tried it?\n- DK: there are opportunities for trinkets.\n  - CH: or custom animations?\n\n4. **Wikipedia method on Project Website.**\n\n- Large dropdown on the site.\n- [DAREBEE](https://darebee.com/) footer: \"funding is low\".\n- Goals tied to funding.\n  - Add a new developer once we hit $XX or $XX per month.\n- We can ask institutions to add a similar banner for a magnification of visibility!\n\n5. **How do users/contributors contribute resources?**\n\n- Non-money resources?\n- Developer application?\n- Specific modules?\n  - Supported by the technologies they connect to?\n- Maybe a hint of \"voting with your dollar\"?\n  - Or a bounty program?\n\n6. **Running theme: what do we spend the money on?**\n\n- Can we figure out useful goals first, then fundraise for them?\n- How do we prioritize within a large community?\n- How do we share how we've spent the funds?\n"}}}