g0v NYC Hackathon Fundraising
Goal: To raise $15,000 ~ $25,000
Budget?
Eric Tsaiwhat's the budget plan on this?! Why $25,000?
wow I like this number!
I'd like to have $25,000 for budgeting but why so much?
Well, I just made up this number. I think at least we will need 15,000.
might have to explain/justify why $25,000... it will help when asking for larger amount of donation
budget sheet required. Need someone with finance background to do this. Wasn't there someone who said they were consulting? Time to bust out those excel sheets
This number depends greatly on how big the event we want
Need to form a budget committee asap and core team to figure out the scale of the event
I think let's do 100 people event $1,5000 for now - makes sense?
No event plan no budget, No budget no sense haha.
$150 per person? Will lodging be provided?
$1,5000 includes venue costs and so on, so not quite $150 per person
you can also split venue cost per attendee... that's okay.
are you guys having speakers? traveling cost for the speakers?
Roughly, not sure if it makes sense: $2K - 3K venue, $4K - 6K speaker, $2K food, rest - everything else
so probably need $1,5000 - 20,000
So I just looked at DC's budget/actual.... not including speaker expenses... it was about $80 per person (venue/food/etc... no lodging...)
If we use $80 per person x 100 ppl = $8,000.
Venue cost in NYC is more expensive than DC. ( + $2,000 ),
Two speakers from Taiwan ( $3K each = $6,000 )
one speaker from NYC ( $500 ~ $1,000)
I'd say $1,7000 as our target.
How about Lodging and Travel subsidies?
Account Info
Find a 501(c)(3) org to help us making a event account.
Eric Tsai is asking TAC-GNY
Emailed. Awaiting reply
Giving Methods
- Mail a check
- Quickpay
- Paypal
- Direct credit card input on the Website (not sure if needed given the other options)
- Indegogo
just make sure to take into account that some of these will charge a percentage, maybe in the fundraising letter, we can state the preferred methods
Sponsorship
Sponsorship Level
Need to be discussed
incentives?
Yes, like $250 Logo on website, $500 plus Logo on flyer and hand out, $1000 promotion opportunity during event / presentation after the event. etc.
Potential List
Format: Name of Org. , Contact person (Title) <email>, Who will Contact (Status)
表格超難用! 所以只好這樣....
Dam ya..this table is hard to use....Google Drive for the win :P
It will be great if we can have a diverse group of organizations here - diverse in their political ideologies (or color if you know what I mean...)
Taiwanese Organizations
- FAPA 總會, Mark & Su-Mei Kao (President) <lrmkao@gmail.com>, Yen-Fu Lin
- FAPA 紐約分會
- 經文處, Charlin 佳琳姐 (教育組組長) <charlin@edutwny.org>
- 台灣會館
- 台灣商會
- 中華會館
- 學生會
- NJ 台灣同鄉會 Victor Liu (President) <victorliu.52@gmail.com>
- 紐約台灣同鄉會 Hwa-Chow Oliver Hsu
- Taiwanese American Council of Greater New York (TAC-GNY), Hong Tien Lai <htlaident@gmail.com>
- Taiwanese American Association of New York (TAA-NY) Oliver Hsu (President) <oliverhsu36@gmail.com>, Jason Chang (Vice President)
- Taiwanese American Professionals NY (TAP-NY) Charles Pan (President) <charles.pan@tap-ny.org>, Alex Shih (VIce President External) <alex.shih@tap-ny.org>, Crystal Tang (Vice President Internal) <crystal.tang@tap-ny.org>
Contacted, awaiting response
Contacted Technology Chair and he will run through with board
Local Businesses
- Flushing brand (功夫茶)
- Shiny Tea (嚮茶)
- Tea Kettle
- 北港台菜
- coding schools: General Assembly, Metis, NYCDA...
- Wayne 牙醫
Corporate
- Liberty City Ventures Dorothy Jean (Founding Partner)
- Coalition for Queens Jukay Hsu (Founder)
- The Hatchery Yao Huang (Founder)
- 太平洋時報 Hui-na Lin (LA 社長) <pacifictimes4831@gmail.com>, Yen-Fu Lin (contacted, wait for our account info)
Individual Donations
Giving Level
Need to be discussed
Potential List
wouldn't all sponsors essentially be donors?
I mean individuals haha
Format: Individual's name <email>, Who will Contact (Status)
Albany 長輩
(all will be contacted by Yen-Fu Lin)
- William Chen (Albany TAA P) <wchen183@gmail.com>
- Shyh-Chin Huang (Albany TAA VP) <shuang1@nycap.rr.com>,
- Mike Ku <mikeku2000@yahoo.com>
- Chinshu Liu <chinshu@aol.com>
- Ying Jen Chen <adjin48@gmail.com>
- Mr. Ju <facetoju@yahoo.com>
Fundraising Materials
- Event Proposal
- Presentation Slides
- Sponsorship Packet
- Donation Appeal (Ask letter)