[OccupyNeeds] Notes from Needs Call Dec. 11
Jay Blas Jacob Cabrera
red at wc.tc
Sun Dec 11 13:11:49 EST 2011
Needs Call Dec. 11th, 2011
Ali, Jay, Kelly, Tracy
Ali-facilitator
Jay- Notes
Agenda Items:
Survey Questions (Ali)
Occupy Audit and Finance in Movement Vision (Jay)
Fundraising after the evictions (Kelly)
Updates on conversations with non-profits and unions. (Ali)
Fundraising Report (Tracy)
Notes:
The survey:
Survey for Occupation Working Groups
Physical and service resources
What resources are you spending money on?
Which resources that you depend on being donated?
Which resources do you need that you don't currently have?
Which resources would you like?
(add some examples to clarify possible items)
Capacity
What tasks and activities does your members spend the most time on?
If you could, what tasks would you outsource to volunteers (individual or organizational)?
What task or activities would you like to take on if you had more members?
What task or activities would you like to take on if you had more volunteers?
(examples - trainings etc...)
(clarify outsourced volunteers are from external groups and individuals supporting people who go to GA's etc...)
Processes and Agreements
What internal problems or situations does your group have that you would like to solve?
What internal problems or situations does your occupation have that you would like to solve?
(example: underage kids camping etc...)
policies, homelessness, etc...
(add some explainer text...)
New Question:
Add question about what groups, non-profits, and organizations already getting involved with?
(ie. code pink, local food bank, homeless coalitions, laybor unions, organizing groups, progressive foundations)
Survey focused mainly on occupations, but also made general for groups that have lost occupations.
Also could be additional surveys for accounting and finance, as well as more general survey for GA's that do not have occupations.
How to Occupy that has a lot of resource material. Make sure it is deseminated.
Add that link into the minutes
Occupy Audit and Finance in Movement Vision (Jay)
Jay talked about the document he sent out about funds in the movement
Help them with finance tranings, and an audit.
5% of donors really are interested in knowing where the money is going.
The issue is how to make it simple enough so that everyone is comfortable with it.
If the occupy movement is being monitored. Nobody want the donor names to be public anywhere.
Need to be careful not to list organizational names, or personal names anywhere.
Do not want to be catalogued.
Add an executive summary the doccument
Fundraising after the Evictions:
Information for occupations that don't have occupations.
Harder to fundraise without the fiscal encampment.
General FUnd has $60,000 from we-pay account and cash donations.
$250+ per day...
$4,000 in greenway fund.
+ other but couldn't quite here him.
We have raised a good amount of money, curious on sense of what other occupies have done post eviction.
Loosing locations then increasing their social media. Sending through tweets and facebook. Picked up reminders.
Need to look more into this issue and see what is happening.
Initially more money was following into the we-pay account. Now more is coming into the Cash box from the large amount of visitors.
Experience with what type of donors people want in this movement.
Not saying they don't want money from certain people.
Updates on conversations with non-profits and unions.
Ali talked with some organizations at a holiday party.
Abuz, change.org, ccc.... sending people down to be involved in an organizing way.
Have actual budgets and people who are responsible to deal with the occupation.
How do we do this right. Want to send people but do not want to offend. Different occupations and could use some advice on that.
They really want to have a longer conversations, even meet in person at Change.org.
Invite people who are looking for a way to interact with the occupations who don't know how to do that.
Unions on national level also having these questions. Could also be video conferenced in.
A week or 2 into january as a time. Want to do it regardless, but also could do it as a part of this group.
Had a person from the national press club to put a panel on the occupations from across the country from this group who had people who were particularly good who would want to come into DC.
Fundraising Report (Tracy)
Tides foundation and funding exchange are coordinating proposals.
They have large fundraising scale and infrastructure.
Pushing them to get 50% of this money to be deseminated to new groups and movement.
% beetwen support groups and occupations themselves.
They can provide organizers, and are already providing organizers.
Can be an other agenda item for next week.
Peace Development Fund:
link....
Kelly runs a progressive foundation too
Access Strategy fund.
Donors are nervous about sending checks.
They know the occupies are in movement.
Need to pay attention to the smaller towns and smaller groups not just major cities.
Get occupy gift cards, phone cards. Pic them up in the drug store, visa, mastercards,
Community based banks that have gift cards. $25-$500
Send the cards to the movement.
There is a short term need.
Some of the smaller occupies don't have web pages.
Needs are changing. If this committee would think these cards are useful. There could be places that have no money where this could be good to help get started.
We are also working on the larger proposals and getting funds out.
The General Assemblies proposal from Jay as well.
http://Fund.GeneralAssemblies.info
The cards involve a small fee. But overall it is less than foundation cuts.
Sounds like a great idea. Can be ad hoc, and figuring out which occupations get them sent to.
Encourage that there is an end goal to switch to something more accountable.
Idea of having occupy gift cards. If we do have them, lets put them to good use.
Can be a central start for this, until we have other decision
Wonderful idea. Gift cards there is a huge cry about supporting the mastercard and visa empires. Process fees.
Try not to go unilaterally on it without wider conversations. Some occupies may not want it.
If we can come up with an other way.
Progressive foundations just take too long.
Checked out for end of call.
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