Fundraising

From HackAarhus

The immediate need for fundraising has become less of an issue for HackÅrhus, since the formation of the organization Open Space Aarhus (OSAA), which will handle the aquisition and maintenance of a space and it's infrastructure. HackÅrhus "specific" equipment (Equipment needed/used only by HackÅrhus) will of course be purchased by HackÅrhus.. in time...

So most of the following, regarding getting a space, is therefore for inspiration for the OSAA.

Contents 1 Aim 2 Prerequisites // Action Steps 3 Goal 4 Fundraising Ideas 4.1 Start a Pledge 4.1.1 Purpose 4.1.2 Providers 4.1.3 Pledge Type and Pledge Text 4.1.4 Working Group 4.2 "Buy a Pixel" Homepage 4.2.1 Purpose 4.2.2 Working Group 4.3 Cigar Box 4.3.1 Purpose 4.4 Funds from Private Foundations 4.4.1 Purpose 4.5 Donations from Private Companies 4.5.1 Purpose 4.6 State Funds 4.6.1 Purpose 4.7 Membership Fees 4.7.1 Purpose 4.8 Individual Donations 4.9 Merchandise 4.9.1 Purpose 4.10 Selling Snacks and Beverages 4.10.1 Purpose 4.11 Hardware Donations 4.12 Parties

Aim

The overall aim of fundraising is to have a space up and running. In detail money is needed to:

• pay the one-off deposit for a space
• pay for the rent of a space (incl. utilities etc.)
• pay for necessary infrastructure (e.g. furniture, hardware, internet access, ...)

and later:

• pay for additional hardware/machinery for projects (e.g. repraps, laser cutters, robots, ...)
• fund specific project ideas, events and activities

Prerequisites // Action Steps

• form an organization
• get a bank account
• define a goal

Goal

• define a specific fundraising goal here: how much is necessary to kickstart the space (e.g. deposit + half year's rent)
• make a progress bar showing the progress of all fundraising activities combined towards this goal

Fundraising Ideas

Start a Pledge

Start a public pledge on one of the pledge providers (i.e. pledge banks). E.g. "I will pay x DKK if y number people will agree to do the same." or "I will pay x DKK every month if y people will agree to do the same."

See also Threshold pledge system, Crowd funding and PledgeBank on Wikipedia.

Solicit pledges mainly from people close to Hack Aarhus (e.g. (prospective) members), but also people from outside who want to support our goals.

Purpose

mainly bootstrapping

Providers

• http://www.pledgebank.com/
• http://www.kickstarter.com/ -- Amazon account for payees (OK!), US bank account and address for receiver (NOT OK!)
• ...?

tbc

Pledge Type and Pledge Text

tbc

Working Group

tbc

"Buy a Pixel" Homepage

Sell pixels on a homepage to interesting parties, where they can do with it their screen real estate whatever they want (e.g. their logo, ads, ...). See wikipedia:The Million Dollar Homepage.

The homepage could be an entry page to www.hackaarhus.dk for a specified duration or reside at a subdomain and be prominently featured on the homepage or at a designated domain altogether. It is a more interesting idea than just having a page listing all the sponsors/supporters.

Furthermore when we do get a space we could make a large print and hang it on the wall - thus giving our sponsors even more incentive. And we could brag about our personal donations. ie "Thats the glider i bought for hack aarhus"

Purpose

mainly bootstrapping, but also sustainability if used as a list of sponsors/supporters.

Working Group

tbc

Cigar Box

See https://labitat.dk/index.php/Cigar_box

Purpose

bootstrapping (mainly for the deposit and first rents)

Possible with a sticker as a "reward" - telling the world you lend Hack Århus X kroner. The sticker should have a URL promoting the idea of the Cigarbox.

Funds from Private Foundations

See https://labitat.dk/index.php/Fonde

Purpose

In genereal foundations don't support "sustainability" they do however support projects - which could land us some gear we could use. We might have a "external"-project pay us rent

Donations from Private Companies

Purpose

mainly sustainability

State Funds

Purpose

mainly sustainability

Membership Fees

Only take membership fees if there is something offered in return (e.g. a space) -- no advance payments. Maybe have non-paying members or other membership models.

tbc

Purpose

sustainability

• be self-financed for the very basic infrastructure (e.g. space + internet)
• don't rely on external funding for the basics

Individual Donations

Put bank account and easy payment provider (!=Paypal) on homepage. Request for any kind of donations to support us.

• provide suggestions/options to choose from for donations (one option beeing a user-defined amount)

Merchandise

Sell t-shirts, stickers etc. either via something like http://www.spreadshirt.dk/ or print them ourself.

Purpose

sustainability

Selling Snacks and Beverages

Purpose

sustainability (self-financing of snacks and beverages)

Hardware Donations

Parties