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Community Media Pilot

OpenProducer's Community Media Pilot provides indie media and arts orgs with training, mentorship and technical assistance while growing the organizational capacity to sustain over time.

Sustainability

• Enable and enhance original content creation
• Grow revenue via fundraising, sponsorships, partnerships, and related services.
• Identify new models for content distribution and licensing
• Increase audience engagement
• Platform support and maintenance
• Platform and security updates
• New features and improvements based on our platform development roadmap
• Support and troubleshooting

Training

• Training, mentorship and technical assistance to help strengthen organizational capacities as well as diversify revenue streams.
• Provide community members real-world learning opportunities to produce, engineer, host, write, interview, and create the media

Process/Roadmap

Once enrolled, OpenProducer and partners would do the following:

• Set Up an onboarding meeting – At the onboarding meeting we’ll
  • Discuss the existing site to learn about any pending tasks you need taken care of right away
  • Gather use cases from them to cover the critical features
  • Determine additional needs such as hosting, custom development, and design
• Estimate costs for additional needs
• Migrate to partner hosting (two months of hosting included in initial cost)
• Impromptu year-end fundraising activities
• Provide platform security updates and maintenance (initial enrollment covers the first two months)
• Continuing research into best practices in revenue development
• Series of in-person and virtual courses, workshops, hackathons, and other training opportunities for staff and volunteers.
• Create toolkits and share best practices to help achieve long-term sustainability
• Quarterly fundraising events