g0v NYC Hackathon Fundraising

Goal: To raise $15,000 ~ $25,000

Budget?

what’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.

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 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) <[email protected]>, Yen-Fu Lin
FAPA 紐約分會
經文處, Charlin 佳琳姐 (教育組組長) <[email protected]>
台灣會館
台灣商會
中華會館
學生會
NJ 台灣同鄉會 Victor Liu (President) <[email protected]>
紐約台灣同鄉會 Hwa-Chow Oliver Hsu
Taiwanese American Council of Greater New York (TAC-GNY), Hong Tien Lai <[email protected]>

Taiwanese American Association of New York (TAA-NY) Oliver Hsu (President) <[email protected]>, Jason Chang (Vice President)
Taiwanese American Professionals NY (TAP-NY) Charles Pan (President) <[email protected]>, Alex Shih (VIce President External) <[email protected]>, Crystal Tang (Vice President Internal) <[email protected]>

Local Businesses

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) <[email protected]>, Yen-Fu Lin (contacted, wait for our account info)

Giving Level

Potential List

Format: Individual’s name <email>, Who will Contact (Status)

Albany 長輩

(all will be contacted by Yen-Fu Lin)