Funding Sources for ILXO

Possible Funding Sources

• 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)

Approach

• 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.
  • Offering our office space for organizations to use as their own space
  • Offering organizations to "sponsor" some our workshops and/or classes and get some of our funding that way