[okfn-coord] Approaching people for project sponsorship?

Mon Jul 27 12:25:35 UTC 2009

In my experience it is just like asking for other kinds of money. Put
together a case for the money, emphasise the value it will deliver to funder
(ie. helps deliver against their goals etc), find the right people in the
funding organisation (often the trickiest bit) and pitch. Usually the
difficult part is to find a funder with shared goals.
p

2009/7/15 Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>

> I was wondering whether anyone had any experience with approaching
> people for project sponsorship? In particular I'm thinking of prizes.
> Is there protocol or etiquette for this? I've often wondered, but
> never known about how this works...
>
> Just to give an indication of the kind of thing I am thinking of...
>
>  * Prize for open science (or attached to open science fellowship or
> CKAN open data curatorship) - could approach Wellcome, SPARC/ALA,
> JISC, NESTA, CODATA, Google...
>  * Prize for semantic open data (or semantic data 'editor') - could
> approach Talis, OpenLink Software, BBC, Osmosoft...
>  * Prize for open visualisation - could approach IBM, visualisation
> companies who use F/OSS?, ...
>  * Prize for open knowledge in development - could approach OSI, ...
>
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> Jonathan Gray
>
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> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://www.okfn.org
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