Fundraise

Fundraising ideas from Taeyoon, Tega, Moises, Zach, Casey, and Gary.

• Apply for relevant grants: art, technology, education, STEM.
• Teachers/alumni donate a day or two of time teaching workshops.
• Hold some sort of one day conference. 70 attendees + $100 per ticket = $7,000. Potential costs: space, speaker honorariums.
• Reach out to organizations who might be interested in sponsoring future students.
• Sell things: t-shirts, 1-bit computer kit.
• Hold an art auction with donated artworks from alumni and friends of the school.
• Recurring supporters program. Circle of funders. Could do this with an online payment system. Taeyoon also mentioned that he supports Triple Canopy annually by handwriting and mailing a check, and it feels special.
• Funding buddies for students. Match students with a patron.
• If you just ask somebody for $100, it might be awkward. The exchange of a reward, no matter how small or symbolic, makes it non-socially-awkward for somebody to hand you $100.
• For every person physically at the school enroll five remote participants, paying less than the cost to be on-site. As a tradeoff for the way this could offset the cost of the program for on-site participants, each on-site participant commits to keeping in dialogue with five of the remote participants. This potentially expands the reach of the school’s teachings, is good practice for students becoming teachers, and engages a dialogue about online education.
• Charge for a lecture livestream.