[Lnc-business] Event funding

[Daniel Hayes]

I think these are all good points and I agree that this is probably something that should fall under the direction of the Affiliate support committee.  I think helping affiliates to develop a robust outreach effort if they don't have one should be a priority and if they do to help share their best practices with others.  

It's a relatively inexpensive way to get "the Party" in front of a lot of eyeballs in a grassroots way.   Many of those eyeballs might never approach the booth but seeing it creates a  "touch" of one degree or another.  That helps to prepare that prospect by either encouraging them to go find out what the LP is on their own or when they do get eyeball to eyeball with a Libertarian, they are a little more open to what they have to say because of the vague familiarity they have with the Party.  Happy people see stuff all around the country helps show we are a national organization, not just pockets of activists.

I am glad to see that LPCO intends to have some skin in the game and just isn't expecting the LNC to be Uncle Sugar and cover everything. That usually indicates they will appreciate and make the most of the opportunity.  

I also like that it's coming from Colorado because I know that they already do outreach somewhat regularly.  Additionally, I know Caryn does a lot of their outreach in Colorado.  I think she will help to serve as a good steward of our funds and the opportunity with her connections to both organizations and her experience and level of commitment. 


I think this could be a good test and be used to help the Affiliate Support committee to develop some policies with LNC approval to move this forward.  I think the idea of crowdfunding it as a way to show which events we should do and builds in the mechanism to find it which takes away a lot of the complaints of favoritism etc.  It's essentially a market driven solution to selection of which projects to pursue.

Ultimately, outreach is best handled locally.  Sometimes a project might be out of an organizations financial means to put  on alone.   Other times they may not be sure where exactly they go to get started.   The LNC should be using this as a means to boost local outreach and not to be the sole source of it.  It's also good for helping the affiliate with a larger event that they may have a lot lower percentage of direct return for the local with many people in attendance from out of their area.

That all said,  I will jump in and co sponsor as outreach is one area of  focus for me. Clearly, there will need to be tweaking but we can't learn unless we try. Now seems to be the time. 


For
Clarity I will go throw in my cosponsor on the other thread.


Daniel Hayes
LNC At Large

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> On Jun 24, 2016, at 8:04 AM, Sam Goldstein <goldsteinatlarge at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I believe that efforts of this nature properly fall under the purview of the Affiliate Support Committee, which has a budget and could implement a mechanism for evaluating and implementing requests from state parties for event support.  The LNC does not have time nor does it need to micro-mange to the point of approving funding at this level.
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> I agree with Mr. Katz that the LNC should not involve itself in assigning staff to certain functions and/or events.  That is the job of the Chair and the ED.
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>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Joshua Katz <planning4liberty at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm using a different subject because this isn't about the merits of the motion to support a booth at RiotFest.  Rather, these are questions that I see as arising from that motion.
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>> My first question would be - if we do this (and on the merits it strikes me as something worth doing) we'll be asked to fund a number of such events.  It seems to me that, as a matter of board governance, we should come up with an overall strategy that informs such decisions.  If we can clarify the purpose of the LNC putting money and personnel into a booth at an event such as this, it may guide future decisions.
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>> Which leads me to my next question - while no other apparatus exists for this at the moment, this doesn't look to me like the kind of question that needs to come before a national board.  I would suggest that, since I do expect these requests to continue coming if we fund this one, we build some intervening structures, or make use of ones that exist (maybe affiliate support?), empower them within a budget (outreach?  affiliate support?  a new line?), and give instructions based on my first question above.
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>> Next - I have to admit that I am uncomfortable with a board motion specifying that a particular employee be sent to a particular place with a particular task.  That looks far too much like a management task to me, and I see a lot of potential for conflict if the board gets in the habit of doing that sort of thing.  It creates uncertainty for management if we swoop in and start moving staff members around.  Rather, I'd like to see a broad directive to staff to support these endeavors in such ways, and leave prioritization and decisions about who to send where up to management and, at times, the chair.  I think this, also, feeds back into my main point about board governance vs. management.
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>> So I suppose what I am suggesting is that, in addition to whatever we decide to do on RiotFest, the LNC adopt a strategy, explicitly, regarding this sort of endeavor (we can define "this sort" as broadly as we think useful) and our strategic reasons for getting involved, of the sort that can inform an empowered committee and staff, rather than face the potential of the national board sorting through these sorts of requests - and, let's not forget, it's possible that there will be strategically useful events for which no request is made, but a committee established for that purpose might find them and suggest to the affiliate that a presence should be established there, and that funding will be available.  
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>> Joshua A. Katz
>> Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)
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