Training events for fundraising for non-profits. The one below is the one I found the most interesting.
Reluctant Fundraiser? Not A Fundraiser? Not A Problem! When: Sept. 29th, 2020 – 1:00pm Eastern Cindy Wagman will give guidance and encouragement to those who need to fundraise, but would really rather do anything but. I ran into these with my daily news reading: https://nonprofithub.org/hubinars/ https://nonprofithub.org/hubinars/ Hope this can help somewhat On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 4:00 AM Boudewijn Rempt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday, 27 September 2020 21:36:46 CEST Vincent Pinon wrote: > > > > Very regularly, we have video editors asking how to give money (amounts > > 10€ to 100€) to boost development of that tool highly useful for them. > > When we answer to give to KDE, who shares the infrastructure and funds > > the sprints, they express they would prefer a more dedicated donation to > > pay for development (bug solving, feature development...) > > At this point, I'd advise you to do what I did: create a foundation, get a > bank account and take donations in. For applications like Blender, Krita, > Kdenlive that's really the only way to go because your users and potential > supporters won't understand an umbrella organizagtion like KDE. > > Especially once the majority of users is on Windows, the KDE story won't > lead to donations. KDE needs to find its supporters in the free software > and Linux world. > > > The tiny team can't answer these requests on spare time (or it takes > > years). No one is ready to abandon their job, finding a good person to > > hire seems not easy, maybe contracting a consultant would be a > > solution... But then how to gather the funds? As KDE eV can't allocate > > money to a specific project (if I understand correctly), we would need > > to create a new structure: none of us is interested in this kind of > > paperworks and risks associated (having read about Krita Fundations > > difficulties few years back)... > > > > Also, we know that our Windows downloads are increasing by tens of > > thousands every month, it was also suggested to ask for 1€ (or free > > amount) for these binaries (as GCompris also did sometime), but again, > > where to put that money ? It could be for eV (?) > > I haven't been motivated to look at the stores stuff, as long as we > > don't know where to put the money... > > Don't ask for too little. A 1€ application will be perceived as having > less value and utility than a 10€ application. We went for 10€ on all > platforms because we both wanted to undercut our 39,99€ competitors (Clip > Studio and Affinity Photo) and because we wanted store customers to believe > that Krita has a value. > > > So my questions are : > > can eV gather money from Kdenlive binaries on Windows ? (and maybe Mac > > someday, both thanks to Craft and binary-factory \o/) > > Can it use it (or part of) to pay consultants on that project ? If not, > > is anyone ready to help for the extra administrative work ? > > > > It's true that not accepting these donations maybe holds back that > > project from increasing as rapidly as many users are expecting... > > > > Thanks for all the great things in KDE, > > > > Vincent > > > > > > > -- > https://www.krita.org > > > -- Regards, *Julien Tremblay McLellan* [image: Julien Tremblay McLellan 🌈] <https://twitter.com/jtm_lis> [image: GitHub Logomark] <https://github.com/jtm-lis> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/julien-tremblay-mclellan/> *Ottawa, Canada* Let's talk, just book me here <https://calendar.x.ai/julientremblaymclellan> *+1-613-618-6699*
