ON350 Setup Suggestion

[thugsb]

We have recently started the switch to the online platform, NationBuilder.

NationBuilder will allow us to keep track of our supporters, replace our website with a CMS, create petitions, send email blasts, host events and ticketing, receive donations, and better coordinate our volunteers. It's an amazing platform, which will allow us to get rid of our existing website (we'll migrate it across), mailchimp, eventbrite/picatic, paypal, and our various collections of spreadsheets that are currently tracking our people.

There has been a suggestion to compile all the ON350 groups into a single account, which still allows us to have multiple websites and targeted email blasts, but will also allow to better coordinate across the province. It's also cheaper than the groups having separate NationBuilder accounts.

We have received a grant of $650 from the mothership to help with the setup of ON350.

My suggestion is that we 'hire' someone from one of our groups (probably via a bursary/honorarium) to assist with the setup of this new platform - creating websites (likely just putting the content+structure in place, not the designs), importing our existing contacts, and getting admin users set up from each of the regional groups. NationBuilder will allow us to distribute the work of running all of this, but it would be useful to have someone with an overview of our setup.

What do people think of this idea? Any objections? Suggestions? Obviously the legal/financial aspects would need to be worked out. And we'd need to work out our 'hiring' process.

[thugsb]

Ron Moore sent an email:

Hi Stu,
 
I have read your proposal and I think it is a good idea.  Do you have any comment from other Ontario 350 groups?  I tried to make the above comments to your proposal, but due to my incompetence I was unable to do that.  Feel free to post any or none of the above.
 
Ron

[Amanda Lewis]

Sounds good to me. Maybe a set contract, so the person who receives the bursary isn't expected to continue the work past a certain date? Will all of the $650 go into this bursary, or will a portion be allotted for the NationBuilder licence/domain itself? Thanks, AL