[Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser Proposal

[Frantisek Apfelbeck]

Great idea! I can help to gather the potential auction material, as far as I 
recognize what that piece of .... is ...
See you,
Frantisek




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From: Glen Jarvis <glen at glenjarvis.com>
To: NoiseBridge Discuss <noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net>
Sent: Thu, August 26, 2010 12:49:07 PM
Subject: [Noisebridge-discuss] Fundraiser Proposal

Two observations that seems to be generally true for Noisebridge:

* We usually either need money or could use more money, and
* We always get junk donated

Sometimes the stuff that gets donated is "weeee" -- let's hack that. Other times 
it's, "that's cool, but we already have 30 of them..."

Instead of discouraging donations, what if we had an auction? It would clean out 
the space once-in-a-while, benefit the community who wants cool things, and earn 
us some money. For example, I personally have been very interested in some of 
the racks that were donated to noisebridge... I don't need one now, but I 
remember that we had so many around we didn't know what to do with them and I 
wanted to get one....

I know Goodwill, for example, gets stuff donated to them just for the purpose of 
reselling. We're talking about a one-time auction (or maybe twice a year, once a 
quarter) instead of retail.

What sticky non-profit issues are there for us? Is this a horrible idea?  Can we 
make it a mini-maker-faire type of event where people also can set up tables 
showing off kits they made, sell arduinos, etc.?

Ideas are easy.. implementation is hard..

G
-- 
Whatever you can do or imagine, begin it;
boldness has beauty, magic, and power in it.

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