What is our One Most Important Thing this month?
- Last month was: get our communities fully migrated to the new platform.
- This month: focus back on fundraising, including hiring development staff
Platform Migration Updates
Data migration about 50% complete.
- Going even better than planned
- Tom and Rose are handling everything from our side.
- Neil and Arpit are managing everything from Discourse side.
- Migrations Completed: Lyme, Myositis, OPMD, Eagle, Ehlers-Danlos, Amyloidosis, Polyneuropathy (CIDP, GBS, CMT), Narcolepsy, Mast Cell, ADHD, ADEM, ALD
- Migrations Todo: AVM, VWD, PSC, Ataxia, Synovial, Myeloma, ASD, Fibro, Brain Aneurysm, GPN, Lupus, PSA, Rare Diseases, Erythromelalgia, TBI, Sjogrens
- What’s working: Discourse migration scripts, leadership from Tom, Rose, and Neal
- What’s not working: user interface design
Fundraising Updates
- Director of Development job posting: http://www.idealist.org/view/job/4K6k6SwNjtnp/
- Talked to consultant Victoria Corcoran about getting her assistance with interviewing/vetting
- Traditional fundraising strategies: corporate philanthropy, wealthy individual philanthropy, foundations
- Non-traditional fundraising strategies: peer-to-peer, cause marketing, product/service revenue
- What’s working: lots of interest in the position
- What’s not working: no clear fundraising strategy, no concrete hiring/interviewing plan
Next Meeting
- Board of Directors, Wednesday, June 22, 2015, 9am Pacific, 11am Central