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*Chris Chan recommended Zeffy to manage donors and donations. Right now we use Paypal, which doesn't track who's given us money. Only downside seems to be a 3% fee. Actually Derek W says Chris did said up an account with Zeffy, and he got it set up with the bank. Next step might be to change the website? Cristian wants to look at who has donated to us in the past year and starting thanking and following up with them-- Coreen will help him with that in terms of accessing records. Sent 450 emails to businesses around Edmonton, using the business association lists, using the idea of memberships for employees, a few supportive responses so far, not necessarily interest in the proposal per se. Also looking into signs that say "Did you bike here today? Support Bike Edmonton" to place in local businesses. | *Chris Chan recommended Zeffy to manage donors and donations. Right now we use Paypal, which doesn't track who's given us money. Only downside seems to be a 3% fee. Actually Derek W says Chris did said up an account with Zeffy, and he got it set up with the bank. Next step might be to change the website? Cristian wants to look at who has donated to us in the past year and starting thanking and following up with them-- Coreen will help him with that in terms of accessing records. Sent 450 emails to businesses around Edmonton, using the business association lists, using the idea of memberships for employees, a few supportive responses so far, not necessarily interest in the proposal per se. Also looking into signs that say "Did you bike here today? Support Bike Edmonton" to place in local businesses. | ||
*Cristian met with Sarah Thomas of Our Community Bikes in Vancouver, which has a parallel charitable foundation, which gives most of its money to the shop as a grant. Since 2022 charities can give grants to non-charities. Cristian was looking at all the reasons we got rejected previously, and feels that if the charitable purpose is narrowly defined, without involving the whole of shop operations, it would be a lot more feasible. This would be a multiyear project. Could be part of the strategic planning process-- or maybe stay with the fundraising committee. Cristian will find out more about what will be entailed. | *Cristian met with Sarah Thomas of Our Community Bikes in Vancouver, which has a parallel charitable foundation, which gives most of its money to the shop as a grant. Since 2022 charities can give grants to non-charities. Cristian was looking at all the reasons we got rejected previously, and feels that if the charitable purpose is narrowly defined, without involving the whole of shop operations, it would be a lot more feasible. This would be a multiyear project. Could be part of the strategic planning process-- or maybe stay with the fundraising committee. Cristian will find out more about what will be entailed. | ||
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