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Nonprofits for Seattle Net Tuesday's "Makeover" announced!
We're proud to announce Vote Clean and Cool Moms as our two nonprofit makeovers for Seattle Net Tuesday!
Below is a summary of what Cool Mom's and Vote Smart's challenges and missions.
Cool Moms
We are trying to redo our website but need a very important communication component that may be challenging to incorporate to our website without spending a ton of money. The communication piece would enable all members to communicate through our website and for each group, currently 6, to share/have their own page to add information each group is doing. We would also like an online calendar that would log all our events throughout Seattle and beyond. Our goal is to go national, so this communication piece is critical for us to move forward.
We would love ideas as to how to incorporate this communication piece to our website and at a fairly low cost. We are seeking out grants to revamp our website and have done some preliminary checking in with One Northwest as well as briefly looking at ning, meetup, zanby as communication pieces. Zanby is the closest fit, but also expensive. We currently use BigTent and Yahoo groups for our group communication and neither meet our complete needs.
Vote Smart
We can talk the talk. Vote Clean Seattle recently had a hugely successful kickoff event with Congressman Jim McDermott, Councilwoman Sally Clark, over a dozen political candidates, a large public turnout, and even some media coverage. But we’re learning to walk the walk. And that’s where we can use your help. Let me explain: clean elections is all about getting regular people involved in politics, making government more transparent and accountable, and usurping a few big donors with many small ones. We want to structure our online fundraising and grassroots outreach exactly the same way a candidate using a clean elections program would run a campaign: raising small donations from a plethora of citizens to form a broad base of political and financial support. However, we are sorely lacking experience in the online fundraising and outreach departments.
To ultimately change the bottom line of Seattle’s elections we need sprawling political and financial support. That is nearly inconceivable without have a strong online presence, especially if we want a large swath of our donations to be comprised of small contributions. We would like to formulate a detailed plan for online fundraising over the next two years, coupling it with an equally cohesive online outreach thrust, and scale everything to ultimately culminate for an election in the fall of next year. It would be ideal to review case studies of other organizations that have successfully executed both fundraising and outreach plans, especially as they pertain to issue-oriented elections.
Below is a summary of what Cool Mom's and Vote Smart's challenges and missions.
Cool Moms
We are trying to redo our website but need a very important communication component that may be challenging to incorporate to our website without spending a ton of money. The communication piece would enable all members to communicate through our website and for each group, currently 6, to share/have their own page to add information each group is doing. We would also like an online calendar that would log all our events throughout Seattle and beyond. Our goal is to go national, so this communication piece is critical for us to move forward.
We would love ideas as to how to incorporate this communication piece to our website and at a fairly low cost. We are seeking out grants to revamp our website and have done some preliminary checking in with One Northwest as well as briefly looking at ning, meetup, zanby as communication pieces. Zanby is the closest fit, but also expensive. We currently use BigTent and Yahoo groups for our group communication and neither meet our complete needs.
Vote Smart
We can talk the talk. Vote Clean Seattle recently had a hugely successful kickoff event with Congressman Jim McDermott, Councilwoman Sally Clark, over a dozen political candidates, a large public turnout, and even some media coverage. But we’re learning to walk the walk. And that’s where we can use your help. Let me explain: clean elections is all about getting regular people involved in politics, making government more transparent and accountable, and usurping a few big donors with many small ones. We want to structure our online fundraising and grassroots outreach exactly the same way a candidate using a clean elections program would run a campaign: raising small donations from a plethora of citizens to form a broad base of political and financial support. However, we are sorely lacking experience in the online fundraising and outreach departments.
To ultimately change the bottom line of Seattle’s elections we need sprawling political and financial support. That is nearly inconceivable without have a strong online presence, especially if we want a large swath of our donations to be comprised of small contributions. We would like to formulate a detailed plan for online fundraising over the next two years, coupling it with an equally cohesive online outreach thrust, and scale everything to ultimately culminate for an election in the fall of next year. It would be ideal to review case studies of other organizations that have successfully executed both fundraising and outreach plans, especially as they pertain to issue-oriented elections.
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