Creating opportunities for STEAM community builders and leaders to make their inclusive, innovative, community-oriented events/projects/programs a reality
Thank you for visiting the Shadow-Umbrella-Corp project repository.
This document (the README file) is a hub to give you some information about the project. Jump straight to one of the sections below, or just scroll down to find out more.
- What are we doing? (And why?)
- Who are we?
- What do we need?
- How can you get involved?
- Get in touch
- Find out more
- Understand the jargon
- There is a lack of diversity in many grant applicant pools.
- Smaller community groups need a fiscal home for many grant applications.
Not having a fiscal sponsor to accept grant monies limits smaller community groups ability to apply and be awarded grants. Fewer groups feeling empowered to apply for sponsorship and grants creates less diversity in the grant applicant pool. Funds management and bookeeping can tax the available resources of small community-oriented events/projects/programs, making it harder to produce inclusive, innovative opportunities for the public.
The Shadow-Umbrella-Corp will:
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Pool resources from STEAM community builders and leaders to create a financial home for their inclusive, innovative, community-oriented events/projects/programs.
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Discover whether it is better for the interested parties to attain Non-Profit status or to become a BCorp or some other entity that fits our Users needs better.
We are EugeneTech, an enthusiastic group of STEAM community builders wanting to make the Eugene-Springfield area an inclusive and innovative hub of STEAM activity for all ages and demographics. We like to connect community groups with intersecting interests and goals that might not know about each other - to to build groups or events that are greater than the sum of their parts.
You! In whatever way you can help.
We need expertise in bookkeeping, community building, non-profit creation, small business creation and legal advice surrounding both.
We'd love your feedback along the way, and of course, we'd love you to be a part of one of our programs or events once we build a finacial home.
Our primary goal is to create a financial home for local STEAM Community groups so they have a way to access their grant and sponsorship funds easily and transparently. A secondary goal is to support programming of ART-TECH-PLAY projects and helping other projects get activated.
If you think you can help in any of the areas listed above (and we bet you can) or in any of the many areas that we haven't yet thought of (and here we're sure you can) then please check out our contributors' guidelines and our roadmap.
Please note that it's very important to us that we maintain a positive and supportive environment for everyone who wants to participate. When you join us we ask that you follow our code of conduct in all interactions both on and offline.
If you want to report a problem or suggest an enhancement we'd love for you to open an issue at this github repository because then we can get right on it. But you can also contact Jessica by email (kw401 AT cam DOT ac DOT uk) or on twitter.
You can also hang out, ask questions and share stories in the STEMMRoleModels room on Gitter.
You might be interested in:
- Creating a non-profit in Oregon: link_formingnonprofitinoregon
- Can a non-profit be an LCC?: link_cananonprofitbellc
And of course, you'll want to know our:
Thank you so much for visiting the project and we do hope that you'll join us on this amazing journey to support building an open and inclusive STEAM community through collaborative financial management.
- STEAM: Science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics
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