[hackerspaces] How to raise money to support your group

[friday demola]

Well i get not idea for that..

On 6/21/09, David Raison <david at hackerspace.lu> wrote:
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> Hi Luis,
>
> We're not having ads or something like that, mainly because we can't
> argue against data mining, data retention and the like and then use
> google adsense...
>
> We're mainly selling shirts and other apparel
> (http://syn2cat.spreadshirt.net/en/DE/Shop), which isn't a huge source
> of income but it's still ok. We earned like 52 € last month and are up
> to 17 € this month.
> However, I need to confess that Steve and I are probably our best
> customers ourselves ;)
>
> We're still looking into funding, occasionally
> (https://www.hackerspace.lu/wiki/Funding) although funding for
> cultural projects seems not to be very higly valued. Grants from the
> EU are almost always bound to specific requirements which we'll
> probably not ever be able to fulfill.
>
> Vienna for example seems to be a much better turf in that regard with
> several funding organisations on different levels (city, county, state)
>
> D.
>
>
> Luis Gustavo Lira wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am curious whether any of the hackerspaces projects subscribed to
>> the list are successfully using Ads or other kind of advertising their
> blogs/sites to raise money to support their ongoing efforts. If anyone
> has experience with approaching corporations or foundations for money to
> sustain projects in exchange for ads on their site. Another way to think
> about it is whether projects can make money offering services. I'm doing
> some research on sustainability and fundraising.
>>
>> We are using adsence and amazon on our blogs however our founds sources
> are the traditional, usually International NGOs with local chapters in
> Peru as Ashoka, Lemelson, NESsT, Tecnoserve, etc.
>>
>> http://scitechbizdev.blogspot.com/
>
>
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