We’re thrilled to announce the results of PB2 – our first organizational PB process! To practice what we preach, we asked everyone who donated to PBP last year to vote on how the donations are spent, to identify the priorities for PB in 2013. Here’s the final vote tally:
| Project: 1) Hire a Part-Time Development Person 2) Produce a PB Intro Video 3) Launch a Youth PB Campaign 4) Travel Funds for Conference Participants 5) Office Furniture and Equipment 6) New PB Brochures and Info Sheets |
Cost: $4,000 $5,000 $5,000 $3,000 $3,000 $4,000 |
Votes: 44 29 28 12 11 6 |
We committed to use half the money raised in donations to fund the projects with the most votes. When we started fundraising in October, our goal was to raise $6,000. But in just three months, you gave $16,834!
Thanks to the contributions of 130 amazing supporters, we raised enough to fund the top two priority projects above. We already hired a new development associate to assist with our fundraising. In just a few weeks, she’s enabled us to submit three grant application letters and develop a strong plan for raising new resources.
We also just put out a request for proposals to produce a short PB video – please spread the word. If we can raise more resources, we’re committed to moving forward on the other priorities too. And as with PB more broadly, we saw that opening up our budget process helped attract more resources – not only the monetary donations, but also computers and a printer from Google, to meet our office equipment needs!
