Relationships between Companies and Communities

Relationships

   1.    time
   2.    1 to 1, 1 to many, many to many, many to 1
   3.    Purpose - purpose, mission
   4.    work environment

types of interactions

• a conversation
• inviting a member to come join
• connecting people through email sharing or list

Example: Fundraising (things you would want to gather from) 1 > many

• name
• email address
• ?phone number?
• financial data
• professional status
• personal interest
• donor history
• age
• engagement history

What does it mean for a funder relationship to grow:

• recognizing connection to you
• donating
• participating
• volunteering
• speaking publicly about their involvement
• thank them, appreciate them
• asking for input/opinion and listen
• knowing what kind of input to give
• showing people how their donation was used

What does it mean for a personal relationship to grow:

• shared history
• dependability
• patience - boundaries - need
• trust
• non-judgement
• being able to be yourself
• learning things
• support
• vulnerabilty

What are the ways these two lists inform one another?

What are you exchanging in the funder/fundee relationship?

How did acquire financial data?

Did you buy it or did you ask them?

• Trust in how donations are used
• knowing communication preferences
• Past donations
• Answer: Why this matters to you?
• Resources about you work

Fields that you might want on your official donor datasheet

• Name - institutional intermediary
• connect info (email or carrier pigeon)
• communication preference
• Physical proximity
• donor history
• what motivated you to give
• change in relationship

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• https now is a really good resource

there's

• wildcard ssl - if you have sites have sites in multiple servers that's like $500
• single domain ssl - $75

Recommended

• Crypto by Steven Levy