Icarus Conf Call

 

Christin

Will

Annie

Eric

Angel

 

will notes

christin facillitate

 

support@theicarusproject.net email box

volunteering question

 

website facilitation/moderation update?

 

 

website moderation --

will - moderation going well

angel - smooth transition, not sure how we know how well it's working - seems to have smoothed over some of the

overarching stuff going on

eric- so far seems to be fine, idea of moderation and guidelines is work in progress, be aware over six mos where things working, not working, etc., figure out what kind of moderation system works best.

christin - things have settled down on the forums seems, feel is different, good sign. talked with artemis who was banned

 

volunteering with icarus -- 

pointing people to the volunteer with icarus page

specific skills, then match them with person, asking people what their interests are

 

FJC report- 

Angel can help with this

annie partnering with

 

heads up - WRL - going over financials - reconsidering rental amount, angel will advise

 

Summer Blog Post - 

up on google docs, eric gathering edits and input

 

financial situation

sense of being frozen, no sense of what we're doing

putting another fundraising appeal in the blog post

personal outreach

high donor outreach

annie+will discussion for financial development

plan - reach out to 4 high donors with blog post update

emphasize each of us taking on 3 people to donate $300

chicken and egg - are we restructuring or continuing current ongoing 

will - make the summer email a focused on fundraising appeal

angel - not good to make big decisions in crisis/difficult moments - so not good to restructure project during $ crisis

better to address financial thing then think about restructuring, not restructure bc out of money

Christin - best to not make restructure decisions during crisis situation

eric - we've come close to this conversation but multiple times but we wait to last minute. even successful fundraise drive might

only get us 2-3 mos of stipends. wary of being in same place in oct. wary of going down crisis fundraising road, becomes trap.

angel - feels we are shifting to volunteer model. reason feels a priority to me is that it's personal - fairly homogenous, white upper middle

class privileged - idea that only people who can volunteer can do project automatically keeps the homogenous loop going

will - a proposal to go all volunteer wouldn't get consensus at this point

annie -- reality right now is we have to get out of this financial situation. in agreement about volunteer based implications. not a decision

we're freely making - we're technically volunteer now. some of us are struggling financially will 

will - focus on positive proposals about what to do right now

angel - bring someone in who what they do is fundraise. putting out appeal to people who work with nonprofits

doing financial stuff, someone to donate time to project to enfuse us with expertise on fundraising. none of 

us are fundraisers. we do have going for us as project people really like us.

ask allies in social justice community

will - like this idea, high donors might like focusing on this

christen - has annie's plan structure

annie - modify plan to include what angel said about get an outside person to help with $

angel - is everyone on board with this idea?

will - agree with icarus has that gap

angel - start with consulting person to donate effort first

angel - meeting with person this week.

eric- important to not lose larger discussion of resources and structure

angel - meeting with colleague about this next weds 2pm eastern

 

rewrite blog post / email to focus on fundraising and get out as soon as we can

put restructuring on next week's agenda

consensus on bringing in an ally from soc just community to get consulting help around finances

 

about $3,000 right now in account

everyone will get one final check for july work

that will take us down to around 1k$ total

some confusion about what last work period we'll get paid for was, but we clarified it by 

consensus on one final stipend check

note - $300/mo overhead with salsa $100/mo, 

(also $200/annual with may first web hosting was paid two mos ago)

 

 

 

 

 

4PM EST/ 1PM PST

 

NEW wonkavator

 

start of an agenda?:

- financial crisis (stipends, will's and my proposed "next steps", FJC semi-annual report due by end of July)

- summer blog post update

- restructuring conversation/next steps

 

hear ya'll there/then.