Notes: 3/4/09

Beth, Amy, Leah, Sabrina, Lynn, Shirley

Recap of Global Giving Phone Call:

• Success!
• We get our own landing page - brand it, link to it, etc.
• All the functionality of the technology with the ability to make it ours
• We will let them experiment on us

Questions for Global Giving:

• What data do we get on donors?
• Can we track who's giving?
• Clarity on fee
• How do you distribute $?
• What do you mean by the criteria of the project starting within 90 days?
• What's the follow up?
• Does the fee inlcude credit card fees?
• Can we have other forms of media on the project sites?
• Could you give a MIIS gift card just for our umbrella of projects?
• Tax issues?  Who gives the receipt and will the full amount given be the number on the tax forms?
  
• What are your website analytics? 
• What are your stats?  How often do people support the full amount?
• How far can we brand out landing page?

We need to provide the structure to have good projects that fit both MIIS and Global Giving.

Moving forward:

• Marketing - successfully get word out
• Operational questions from global giving - data glory, processing, money distribution
• Internal projects - innovation consulting
• Develop Timeline
• What's the lifecycle of our projects?

Innovation Consulting Questions

• What's better, lots of projects or fewer?  Broad range but not too many...
• How is there fee explained on their site?
• Will this take away from our donors?

In general:

• We want projects that tell a story - show what we do in all the glory
• Pizza Process might not be the right vetting of project - we could always tap into the projects that are happening like the Garden, Team Monterey, etc. 
• Phase 2 or 3 - competition for alumni to join this process...How did MIIS influence this project?

Action:

• Send Beth your questions for Global Giving by Wednesday