MEDIA ACTION GRASSROOTS NETWORK (MAG-NET)

WWW.MAG-NET.ORG

MEDIA ACTION GRASSROOTS NETWORK (MAG-NET) WWW.MAG-NET.ORG

MAG-Net works at the intersection of media

and social change to build a powerful movement

for media justice that strengthens, connects, and

sustains local to-local media organizing to end

racism and poverty with long term community

development, movement building, and policy

impacts.

MEDIA POLICY CHANGE

MOBILIZATION & ACTION

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

LEARNING COMMUNITY

SPEED DATING

1. Name, Organization, work that you do

2. How do you raise money for your cause and/or movement

SPEED DATING

1. Name, Organization, work that you do

2. What’s your biggest fundraising challenge?

SPEED DATING

1. Name, Organization, work that you do

2. Pretend the person you are talking to is a potential, give your best 1 minute pitch.

MAG-NET FUNDRAISING

• Membership Dues Structure

• Grassroots Action Fund

• Collaborative Fundraising with our Anchor Organizations

• Foundation Fundraising

• Giving Circles

MAG-NET FUNDRAISING

• Leverage national network to aid local and regional groups

• Uplift victories and successes

• Stay true to organizing work, work stands for itself

FUNDRAISING – NEW FORMS AND OLD CAROL AMMONS – URBANA-CHAMPAIGN INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER

OBJECTIVE OF SESSION

What is Social Entrepreneurship?

How Do We Engage?

Revenue & Resources

Creativity & Partnerships

Bad Word: Bureaucracy

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURInnovative individuals focused on most pressing social problems

Persistent and ambitious

Offer new ideas for wide-scale change

Often possessed by their ideas

Committed

Visionaries

Concerned with practical application

ENGAGEWords Matter: Non-Profit?

We have to re-define what it means to do the work that matters. The government call us “non-profit”, but we need to re-define ourselves.

Give Examples, i.e. citizen sector. . .

What do you call yourself?

REVENUE & RESOURCESPartnerships, Affiliate organization, providing a direct service, host community events, traditional grants, collaborations, individual giving

FIND A “PLAYGROUND” TO BUILDMinor Donor Groups

Affinity Fundraising

Super Events

BAD WORD = BUREAUCRACY – A SENSE OF POWER OR PRESTIGE BUILT ON HAVING SCREWED OTHER PEOPLEGOOD WORD = BEST PRACTICES – A TERM USED TO DESCRIBE A SOLUTION TO A TASK OR PROCESS THAT IS OFTEN REVOLUTIONARY OR UNIQUEDocumenting, recording, creating is how we share our work with the world and encourage them through hope to invest in the organization and the people.

MEDIAMOBILIZINGPROJECT.ORG

BREAK OUT!

BREAK OUT INTO GROUPS1. What are the biggest takeaways from the

presentations?

2. What do you see are the biggest barriers for your work in collaborative fundraising?

3. What are new models or strategies have emerged for you? Think outside the box?

4. What are some next steps you can take back to your organization or work?

http://www.mag-net.org/content/mag-net-grassroots-fundraising-toolkit

RESOURCES

http://www.mag-net.org/media-justice-resource-library

www.fundraiser.com/fundraising-ideas.html

http://www.slideshare.net/sagenonprofit/event-fundraising-2012-final

http://socialjusticefund.org/

http://socialjusticefund.org/about-giving-projects-0