H.E.L.P. – telemedicine network to areas of need as well as providing live feeds directly from the disaster to the media ASAP while people are still interested.

Q: in what ways can you use relationships w/ media when there are disasters and then maintain those after?

- work a lot in areas of chronic need
- need to more effectively communicate with the media
- marketing voice as well for large corporations to get in and sponsor

Q: Will you be charging media outlets?

- Yes, they will be the client
- They benefit with recognition as well

Q: Pharma companies would they be involved? Would they be sponsors?

- Get pharmas behind areas with chronic needs
- Our whole focus is to arrange win-win relationships

Q: Operational costs on the ground? Are they locally sourced? Who staffs?

- Our focus is on offering a hands up rather than a hands out
- Work with existing infrastructure and people
- Helping people help themselves
- Not dropping meds, supplies and staffing but working with local supplies and staffing. Not cost efficient, good for sustainability or for improving conditions

Q: Sustaining. What do you do to avoid drop-off w/o a disaster?

- circumstances exacerbated by news media
- it’s a challenge
- doing a better job at getting their quicker and getting better info out
- offering web portal for people to see and interact about what’s happening

Audience
Q: Familiar with hot and then not. Do you have tracking over-time – looking at a particular individual for a prolonged period of time?

- Depends on story and conditions but that is a goal
- Clinical perspective – plans for follow-up

Q: There are ways to keep in touch with people who donate (monthly amount) way of building database and keeping public involved

- Freelanthropy
- Looking at a number of ways to keep people involved

Freecycle: 3.5m member global network in 75 countries that use website to access Yahoo groups where items are offered for free – Free-bay

Q: Funding?

- 1st year = $160K
- 5 year - $500K
- membership free
- strive to be a PBS and funding grants, donations, etc.
- Minimal individual donations
- Current site has a finder tool= test for implementing a GoogleBar and building a new revenue stream
- They want to stay away from graphic banner ads
- Grow to 10m to 20m unique site visitors per month

Q: You can’t charge some sort of minor fee for transaction?

- Any charge would no longer be the Freecycle network then it would be “Feecycle”
- Shift to website to enable some rev stream

Q: Why don’t you have any Google ads?

- Not our pages – they are Yahoo’s pages
- Gotten popular so quickly via Yahoo groups so how do we continue these and keep up with increased traffic use?
- Design site for groups to be hosted

Q: Never heard of organization but they have 3,500 members in his town. How did that happen? What could you do with a little marketing?

- Resources haven’t been available yet, but marketing to begin

Q: People in his area would pay, if you can consider charging. It’s an opportunity not to be missed.

- Great degree of local autonomy
- Keeping everyone harmonious is an objective

Audience
Q: Bike donated overseas and people paid and grumbling was low so maybe room to make donation or charge transaction fee

Q: FreeCycle can’t charge but there is a means to make money other ways

Q: Craigslist model- businesses might be willing to pay a fee. If you are generating all of that for Yahoo, there might be some opportunity there.

Q: Building communities through exchange, there’s got to be a monetary tie-in

Q: Serendipitous giving that occurs when people post Wanted ads – really nice side to it. Additionally volume has value.

1.0 of site will have GoogleBar

Big Brothers Big Sisters AIM project: recurring costs spread among agencies. Challenge is making bigger agencies pay more than smaller. Will need about 1m a year of recurring costs – large agencies $12K, small $2K. Smaller agency grumbling. Mergers and acquisitions – agency numbers changing/ fluctuation.

Q: AIM probably trademarked.
Q: Do you have a survey of wants/ needs for agencies?

- Yes/ no
- Complaints, disproportioned agencies

Q: What percent of budget is dedicated to marketing/ outreach?

- had to get agencies on board w/ helping 1m kids
- once on board, they know they need AIM to get there

Q: Don’t small agencies matter as much as large? Or even matter more?

- Small agencies all separate 501-3Cs with their own board, etc.
- Duplicity and slowdown ensues
- Consolidating agencies minimizes slowdown

Q: Funding?

- necessary to stay ahead of growth curve

Q: How to help 1m kids?

- Have to get to at least 300 agencies

Q: How do you assimilate?

- Converting from 500 individual systems
- Will take time

Audience
Q: If you are converting from existing into new system are their also new funding sources? And is there a way to take single stream of data and monetize it?

- Will look into funding to enhance the safety of program
- A lot of mentoring organizations and not sure how valuable our data would be external – who would use? And who would pay for it?

Q: Constrain on # of Big Brothers and Big Sisters?

- Tech is not the whole answer
- b/c we need 1 million volunteers
- system helps via measuring yield for matches and other analysis
- Also have improved marketing/ awareness

Q: Any income benefits to getting on your system? And are you centralizing any other administrative functions?

- This is step 1 – steps to follow include recruiting
- What’s in it for them – serving 1m kids
- But also looking at recruitment, volunteer benefits and other immediately tangible benefits

Q: Will you offer system to outside agencies?

- No plans
- But will be working with schools to collect data

Kabissa 2.0: $20K to 25k per country.
1/3 cost earned income. 1/3 corp. 1/3 donations.

Q: Costs covered by local partners? To what extent does it affect whom you take on?

- Raised locally
- First income starts 6 months in

Q: Sense of cell and Internet penetration for countries your in?

- ½ in West Africa and they have the lowest
- Obstacles can be overcome
- Not limited to web – cell phones etc.

Q: Can you start with partners who can afford and then subsidize the rest?

- Yes, we can start part-time with others
- Cross subsidization will also occur

Q: Have you though about online training?

- IN pilot now.
- Testing online training and looking at ways to involve it in earned income.

Audience
Q: Kabissa compelling b/c they offer training to NGOs and others involved in using them. Offer the complete package. Really exciting to NGOs who work in Africa as Kabissa has put down the foundation.

Q: What about funding outline? Is it realistic? Is it appealing?

- Grants are icing on the cake as they are really unpredictable
- Hard to get them and then they aren’t regular
- If you have balance and can pursue different pathways (often you can leverage pathways)

General: Through partnership with various things you can access other sorts of corporate funding.