Outreach Staffing Ideas

Outreach Coordinator

we want an Outreach Coordinator to be a PR/advertising/marketing person.

• create a flexible, long-term strategy for pimping FG
  • this will help pave the way to a capital campaign for the purchase of new building
  • there are a few big unknowns, so we need to be able to adjust to new realities as they are sprung on us (think e-waste legislation)
• Perform media outreach
  • create a media kit
    • compiling FG stats, e.g. master list of hardware grants (how many grants we give out, to which types of organizations (educational, homeless, environment, churches, etc.), how much money the granted hardware is worth in Thrift Store $). Using these stats for creating fact sheets about free geek.
  • write and distribute press releases
  • Foster and maintain relationships with members of the media on Free Geek's behalf
  • Respond to requests from media, and schedule interviews/photo sessions with appropriate staff members and volunteers
• fostering community partnerships
• coordinate and train a group of volunteers for outreach opportunities (tabling, speaking, presentations, etc.)
• responsibilities also include a few floor shifts a week
• could create tracking system for how volunteers hear of FG, where they come from
• would assist with organizing events like Prom, Geek Fair, Holiday Party
• work with other collective members, dovetailing outreach needs with all Free Geek programs
  • i.e. help production people outreach to businesses for gizmo donations that match our needs
  • help build and adoption program attract appropriate volunteers
  • help the store design advertising campaigns
• (Every job should have this line -->) Develop a group of volunteers to share in the work associated with accomplishing these tasks (esp. rote work)

Experience

• background in outreach and/or marketing
• has created media kits
• Has created well-written press releases & done publicity stuff
• grantwriting experience preference
• Has some graphic design experience
• organized/detail-oriented
• outgoing
• proactive, project planner

What are the goals of Outreach?

What are the Free Geek's outreach goals? And how will this position help fill them? Well, some would include:

• Improving the brand recognition of Free Geek in Portland and elsewhere
• Drive new business to the store
• Drive new volunteers to FG
• Drive new institutional recycling contracts to free geek (make presentations at colleges, corporations, etc.)
• Attract individual hardware donors
• Attract corporate hardware donors
• Attract individual and institutional philanthropists
• Lay some groundwork for annual campaign
• Pursue grants to acheive the aforementioned

Luiz 17:33, 8 May 2008 (PDT)

Americorps

• contact: Oregon Corporation Office

 Amy Dailey
 620 SW Main Street
 Room 714
 Portland, OR  97205
 Phone: 	(503) 326-3282
 Fax: 	(503) 326-3474
 Email: 	or@cns.gov

Development Coordinator

• full-time, 35 hrs/week
• basically, this person would be responsible for bringing in money through fundraising & grantwriting
  • fundraising responsibilities: create a fundraising plan, present to committees, initiate the plan, maintain documentation to track progress
  • grantwriting responsibilities: attend Opt Prime, Council & Grantwriting meetings, research & apply for grants based on FG needs, help overhaul PPS'
• responsibilities also include a few floor shifts a week, attending staff meetings