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03.04. 3rd EU Rebellion Finance / Fundraising Exchange
Monni
Posted on April 3, 2020
03.04. - #3 EU Rebellion Finance / Fundraising team call
Attendees: @moritz, @monni, @flozelle, @citizenspring, @stella.indira (at the end)
Moderation: @flozelle
Report: @monni
Check-In
Review of last week's AP :
- Issuing a public statement of the existence of this working group (@monni / @flozelle)
- is fine for now as group is transparent to the EU Rebellion team
- Involving all working groups and letting them know we need a finance responsible person of their group (@angelika)
- @angelika started to do this.
- @flozelle will continue this
Agenda Points :
Updates of the local groups / finance & fundraising
Global Support
Updates of the local groups / finance & fundraising
Global Support
- COP1 - Conference of the People project in Global Support
- Digital Rebellion preparations
- A little bit desorientation in the branches
- Idea of making the EU Rebellion Teams continous teams on the European level
Belgium:
- Community Support (not necessarily XR branded)
- meals of gratitude project
- Mutual Aid groups in UK growing very fast
- feels like there bottom up initiatives grow much faster then
- Hiring a fundraiser in XR Belgium
Germany:
- Continuing to set up local infrastructure
- getting a fiscal host for OC
- building up a fundraising team
- starting building up mutual support systems
Austria:
- had a finance meeting
- starting an OC
- trying to set up the finance infrastructure
Netherlands:
- In Netherlands: so far very centralized finance system
- It's very intrresting for him how to build up local groups / decentralising finance & fundraising infrastructure
- Economic recession: challenge to raise funds --> good to coordinate and to exchange
- curious to see what is going on
Building up this group - Status of involving all european chapters here and how to get more involved / Purpose of this group! (@monni)
- idea to make this group more permanent fits perfectly with the strategy for the general EU Rebellion team
- where there ideas alreay how to reach out to other groups
- idea was not to be a central body but to help local groups / branches to develop their own capacities
- capacity building still very relevant even though the EU Rebellion in June
- Communication Channels?
- Either: Rebellion Wave #3 becoming "XR Europe" or moving to Global MM team
- becoming less focused on national chapters but more international!
- Digital Rebelllion --> need for a finance team as well --> idea to make this group more focussed on DR now as this is the most important development right now in XR?
- @citizenspring: when it comes to finance:
- challenge: finance is tied to currency - so it is very much easier to have a Eurozone finance team
- other challenge: funding projects we are not knowing about
- @citizenspring: we should focus on matching / decentralisation rather than
- @monni: maybe to soon to focus on DR but to build up the EU finance team
- @flozelle: suggestion: contacting the regional liaison people and adding them to this group
- @citzienspring: important to be careful with messaging: not sending representatives but people who need support and want to exchange with us --> it's not an decision making body here
- @citizenspring: Would be interesting to have groups with different topics - skill change sessions!
- Belgian experience:
- XR started on Belgium - finance & fundraising started in Brussels
- In the beginning it was easy as people knew each other
- Solve:
- Bord of trustees:
- Everyone tells someone you trust --> most trusted people approve expenses
- Enabling all local chapters to have their own OpenCollective, decentralised management of finances
- Sharing legal entity does work with OC !
- one working group that is taking care of it
- finance.extinctionrebellion.be
- Having a wiki and filling it with content:
- https://extinctionrebellion.gitbook.io
- can reuse this
- then moving to another place if the Global Support is coming up with a document repository
- @citizenspring: so far no single place to find the things --> maybe now we can start it
- https://docs.extinctionrebellion.be
- There is a link on github: https://github.com/extinctionrebellion/docs
Update on the set up of the COVID19 Mutual Aid group and invitation to join (@monni)
- Mattermost channel for XR community: https://organise.earth/xrglobal/channels/pg-financial-mutual-support-structures
- @citizenspring: Disappointed so far by the (non)feedback in XR Belgium on setting up mutual funds
- Creating mutual support funds - rebuidling in a decentralised and transparent structure a new fabric of support in society
- idea: giving 1-5% of the income
- Idea: creating infrastructure which we can use in the future
(Connecting this group closer to Global Support Finance / Fundraising team? How? (@monni)) --> next meeting
Action Points:
- @flozelle: contacting the regional liaison people and adding Finance / Fundraisnig people of all chapters to this group
- @all Adding questions / challenges of your brancges to the pad (at the top) so that we can create sessions on specific
- @all: putting interesting materials in the wiki
- https://docs.extinctionrebellion.be
- Editlink on github: https://github.com/extinctionrebellion/docs
- @flozelle: organising the Next meeting in two weeks in this group (Whentomeet) and inviting the regional liaison coordinators to let their branches Finance groups know about it and join the meeting
- @monni: making report transparent on OC page