- project leader
- Michael Q
- location
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1016 East 6 ½ Street(The Heights)
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the project


- Hire a lead science journalist to run the fact checker section, moderate as needed, publish interviews and original pieces, tweet and post regularly in social media, create podcasts and possibly host a radio show, and provide ongoing reports that break down the Forum’s complex content so that it is accessible to the general public.
- Hire an executive director and communications director to manage the site, assist and integrate the columnists, run a robust marketing/SEO/AdWords campaign, and build CCNF’s national profile. It will be incumbent on these two staff members to quickly grow a national audience and ensure that the scientists’ and journalist’s content is accessible to — and reaches — all facets of the American public.
- Have the ability to compensate those science columnists that are taking a leadership role in the initiative and contributing posts regularly. Compensating a core group will ensure a regular stream of contributions from climate scientists at the forefront of the published literature on climate change.
the steps
- Raise $65,000 to hire the staff.
- Hire the journalist.
- Hire the executive director.
- Hire the communications director.
- Continue scaling up the forum, continue gaining the participation of climate scientists at the forefront of the published literature, and improving the website.
- Achieve a critical mass. Exhaust the preliminary analysis of the science.
- Begin a national policy debate, unprecedented in size and scope, on what can or should be done about climate change as a nation.
why we're doing it
Because Americans are divided on whether climate change is a major problem, and even more so on what can or should be done about climate change as a nation.
budget
EXPECTED BUDGET APPROVED BY BOARD (in order of pay out) |
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Fundraising and Recruitment Products and Printing costs | 600 |
Contract Programmer | 5,500.00 |
Journalist Annual Salary | 25,000.00 |
Reimbursement of previous expenses incurred by Executive Director (hosting costs, video, programming, IRS fee) | 1,494.96 |
Executive Director/Site Administrator Annual Salary | 25,000.00 |
Accounting Fees | 1,200.00 |
Subtotal | 58,794.96 |
SUBTOTAL = | $58,794.96 |
ioby Platform Fee | $35 |
ioby Fiscal Sponsorship Fee (5%) | $2,939.75 |
3rd Party Credit Card Processing Fee (3%) | $1,763.85 |
TOTAL TO RAISE = | $63,533.56 |
RAISED = | $2,849.00 |
ioby Platform Fee | $35.00 |
ioby Fiscal Sponsorship Fee (5%) | no longer applicable (team received 501c3 status) |
3rd Party Credit Card Processing Fee (3%) | $81.96 |
TOTAL TO DISBURSE = | $2,732.04 |
Revised Budget, 10/23/2014
AGU Fall Meeting Booth Fee: $410.20
Flight to AGU Fall Meeting: $780
Contract Programmer: $400
Custom Marketing Materials Fees: $200
IRS 501(c)(3) Application Fee Reimbursement: $850
Summer Part-Time Worker Reimbursement: $800
Printing Costs; Gas for Regional Events: $250
updates
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photos
This is where photos will go once we build flickr integrationdonors
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Blair
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Red and Jenny Sanders
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