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.

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 on the 4th Wednesday of the month at 7 pm at Free Geek

Email address: inreach at freegeek.org

CommunityBuilders

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 Thursdays at 7pm at Free Geek

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.

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 at Thursday at 7pm at Free Geek

Email address: pr@freegeek.org

Outreach

Once a month Tues morn at 10am when Technocrats meet

email address: outreach@freegeek.org

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
• Neighborhood Association