Outreach

Overview

Outreach is a staff committee that is open to volunteer participation. We cover a lot of different areas at Free Geek, which are listed below. The email list associated with this committee is outreach@.

The Outreach committee meets every Thursday night except 3rd Thursdays from 7:15 until 8:15pm at Free Geek.

Current events/news

• Events Calendar - what's coming up.

• Optimizing Outreach - results of the FinOp meeting.

• Africa Projects - stuff we're doing in Africa.

• Geek Aid - Techo-nerdy caravan of help for New Orleans (Oct.-Nov 2005)

Outreach Projects and Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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
• Log of Ads
• GeekVideo - documentation, proliferation, replication... consternation?
• Webadmin
• Ambassador Basics