Outreach
Overview
Outreach is a staff committee that is open to volunteer participation. We cover a lot of different areas at Free Geek, so to make this more manageable we broke it down into five subcommittees and one over-sight committee called "Outreach", which can be reached by emailing outreach at freegeek.org. Each committee has a mailing list that can be joined by signing up at: http://lists.freegeek.org/listinfo.
- FG Events
- In charge of Free Geek parties and festivals, like Geek Prom, Geek Fair, and the holiday party.
- Meets seasonally, as needed. Generally, monthly for a few months before an event, then every other week, then weekly, then freakout right before the event.
- Likely suspects: Ali, Shawn, Phil
- Email address: events at freegeek.org
- Inreach
- In charge of tours, volunteer rewards, core breakfast, front desk, public email addresses (like Volunteer@ and Info@), and large donation thank you notes.
- Meets twice a month on Friday from 1-2pm and alternates with receiving meetings.
- Likely suspects: Ali, Laurel, Mary Kate, Matteo
- Email address: inreach at freegeek.org
- Community Builders
- In charge of room use, tabling, relations with neighbors, and networking with other organizations. This is the warm and fuzzy side of Free Geek outreach, in which we can just "be" and pursue our obvious interests with other groups.
- Meets twice a month on the A week on Tuesday at 7pm at Free Geek
- Likely suspects: Shawn, Ali, Jeff
- Email address: communitybuilders at freegeek.org or commies at freegeek.org
- Fundraising
- In charge of fundraising, grants, and membership development.
- Meets once a month maybe. We will consult Marie.
- Likely suspects: ??
- Email address: unknown at the moment
- PR
- In charge of media outreach & relations, ads & marketing, the main Free Geek website, and corporate donations solicitation
- Meets twice a month on the B week on Tuesday at 7pm at Free Geek
- Likely suspects: Jeff, Shawn, Ali
- Email address: pr@freegeek.org
- Outreach
- Once a month Tues morn at 10am when Technocrats meet. Oversight committee that may reduced as subcommittees become more self reliant.
- Likely suspects: Ali, Shawn, Jeff, Laurel
- email address: outreach@freegeek.org
Budgeted Expenses
(Your actual expense budget goes here, along with explanatory notes, for example notes indicating which months expenses are expected to happen in,.)
- Events
- March $800 prom
- June 1200 geek fair
- July 1200 geek fair
- Dec 400 holiday party
- Fire Permits for events $150/quarter (may also include a movie night or 2)
- Ads May 175, 10/month otherwise
- Tabling 50/qtr except 75 in April for Earth Day (nothing else for qtr2)
- Volunteer rewards $375.17/month
- Includes core breakfast and coffee
- T-shirts and similar merchandise
- $180 Q2 and Q4
- $1040 Q1 and Q3
- Business Cards $100/qtr
- Networking/learning conferences and memberships
- $500 Q1
- $1,000 Q2, Q3, Q4
- Desired: AOR membership ($135/yr), AOR conference (2 people, $235 each), Sustainability Workshop ($200), International Computer Refurbishing Summit ($225/person, in Toronto)
Nonrecurring expenses
(This is where one time expenses would go. Yearly or more often go above.)
Related Items
(This is for notes that indicate expenses that affect your committee but are actually classified under a different committee.)
- Conferences July $100 oscon (probably goes in HR -> Training and Education)
Outreach Projects and Responsibilities
These links should be redistributed to working group wiki pages.
- Monitored by Outreach
- Stats and Testimonials - tidbits to support various marketing, advertising, PR materials
- Conferences
- Corporate Sponsors - cultivating corporate sponsorship for Free Geek programs.
- Events - fun activities with music and games.
- Events Calendar - what's coming up.
- Front Desk
- Grant Writing
- Media Liason
- Mailings - asking for money via letters.
- Donations - calling businesses in town and asking for donations--cash, food and non-food--for events.
- Unusual Form Letters - how to reach those special groups; a basic primer.
- Sick Friend Letters - "My friend's too sick to work, can I get a computer for him?" How to answer these questions.
- Pickups for Money
- Presentations/Lectures
- Public Email Addresses
- Room Use - when people want to use our spaces for their events.
- Classroom Use Expectations
- Event Prep - for events at the mothership
- Tabling
- T-Shirts
- Stickers
- Log of Ads
- GeekVideo - documentation, proliferation, replication... consternation?
- Webadmin
- Ambassador Basics
- Neighborhood Association