[hackerspaces] How to raise money to support your group

[Tim Krabec]

I'm thinking of doing an ongoing "repar it" clinic where people can bring in
stuff that can be fixed.  IE wires that the dog has chewed, or a PC with
spyware etc.  Probably a lan party.



On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:14 PM, friday demola <demolaboy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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