Next steps for top priorities

Community outreach

• Generate promotional materials
• Create donor spreadsheet
• Ask volunteers to pound pavement
• Mail professional organizationals materials to distribute at gatherings
• Internet outreach: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Craigslist, Chicago Reader, Freecycle

Growing staff

• Grow from within (find new staff among our ranks)
• Demonstrate usefulness / create opportunities for people on staff
• Provide staff with tshirts, business cards, and certificates of participation
• Outreach to technical educators to find possible leaders

More paid staff and interns

• Write and maintain a budget
• Increase sales and revenue from recycling
• Grow laptop program (possibly by closing classroom)
• Create concrete set of roles and responsibilities for next paid staff
• Next paid staff position not for geeks only, open to discussion
• Research programs like Americorps VISTA

Moving to a new space

• Talk with realtors, real estate agent (starting with one of our volunteers!)
• Requirements plannings
• Use geodata/gis to select potential locations
• Start capital campaign
• Create wiki page for potential locations
• Keep organizing our space, and organize in a portable way
• Talk with aldermen and local politicians
• Explore TIF and empowerment zones
• Canvass for spaces