Funding Sources for ILXO

826 Valencia: Children's education program in Chicago, http://www.826valencia.org/
Community Outreach programs in Chicago area
Education grants and programs at local universities and colleges
Google.org (http://www.google.org/inform.html - I think we fit pretty well into their inform & empower goal, but the application process may be a little long)
General Grants (Chris will look more into this)
Ben & Jerry's Foundation- request for small grants $1000 or less (http://www.benjerry.com/foundation/guidelines.html)
Community foundations in Chicago
Churches
City/Local government-special projects funding
Support for local businesses
Rotary International
Educate the Children Foundation ---> I don't know that they actually have money, but they'd probably be interested in OLPC, and easy to talk to since they're based in Barrington.

We're requesting funding fairly last minute, so having an organization who would be able to write off a few thousand dollars to us as a part of some existing program that they're doing would be ideal. To do this we should consider the following:
- Focusing on groups that work on children's education, general community outreach, appropriate technologies & sustainable development, one's that fund and support non-profits or new initiatives or something along those lines so that the organizations values fit more closely with ILXO's.
- Sticking to organizations in the Chicago area and offering our office space for them to use as their own hacking space
- Offering organizations to "sponsor" some our workshops and/or classes and get some of our funding that way
- What's the perceived value of funding us, what are we offering?

Grassroots grants: an activist's guide to grantseeking, Andy Robinson, http://www.chipublib.org/search/details/cn/1935371
Donors Forum [1]
Foundation Center [2]
Funds Net Services [3]
Face to Face (guide on getting donations from singular people) [4]

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