Through GlobalEyes

As we always do when we finish up a fundraiser, we are publishing our Micro-Goal #3 Report to the donors that contributed to our Dago Thim Latrine Building Project goal.

We successfully raised $860 and were able to construct new latrines at Dago Thim Primary School.

MicroGoal Report #3 - Get more free documents

The governing board of GlobalEyes convened on November 25, 2007 in Fremont, CA.

Attached is the Board Meeting Recap document, which lists out the minutes of the meeting as well as our Applied Funds Summary for 2007 and quarterly balance sheets.

Global Eyes Board Recap - Get more free documents

We're trying to raise $430 to purchase Latrine Construction for Dago Thim Primary School.

We're trying to raise $625 to purchase four months of food relief and cooking supplies for the ten orphans of Children Rescue Mission, Kenya.

Yesterday evening we launched our new GlobalEyes website that we've been working on for a while now. We've changed the design a bit and added a lot of information on ourselves and our projects and partners.

The big change is the launch of our "Bare Naked Org" project - making our organization as transparent as possible. To that end, we have completely revamped the blog, importing nearly every email that has crossed our inboxes relating to GlobalEyes in the past year - I believe it is over a hundred of them. Through these, you can read the story of how this organization was conceived and created, how it grew and turned into what it is today. We will continue to post our correspondence with Tropical Focus, our partner in Kenya, going forward. If you would like to basically be copied on every email that goes back and forth, you can simply subscribe to our RSS feed in your feed reader (like Google Reader or Bloglines).

In addition to that, we've also started to incorporate the idea of micro-fundraising - instead of asking for general donations to help support our projects, we have broken them down into small goals of a few hundred to a few thousand dollars each and will raise money towards them one at a time. When the money is transferred and spent in Kenya, we will be able to get photos and video of what it was spent on so that everybody that contributed to a micro-goal can see where the money went. We feel this continues our goal of transparency.

I hope you enjoy the new site and find the correspondence interesting. Please leave comments if you have any feedback or ideas.

At GlobalEyes, we're trying something new. We're trying to become a radically transparent organization. This means we're putting everything we can think of online for you. Not only where we're raising money and how it's being spent, but conversations we have internally, board meeting podcasts - anything we can think of.

We thought it would be interesting to open up the processes and goings on - so people that are so inclined could see what it takes, what we're doing and how it is done. We want to provide a window into those processes for anyone interested in how a small non-profit communicates and collaborates with it's African NGO counterparts, how it raises and distributes funds, and how it comes to decisions about what to do and how to manage things.

We want to provide a model of transparency and an ongoing case study for everyone who wants to see behind the curtain of a non-profit in America. We would like you to join with us in giving feedback and possibly helping with funding to hopefully make the world a little better.

The idea is to move towards a model where you are as much a part of the organization as we are. You have access to the same information and can take part in what we are doing more fully. We're hoping this makes you feel involved and will help us in what we're trying to do.

This was partially inspired by the transparency displayed over at the Bare Naked App.

More to come as we get it finished up.

We're trying to raise $512 to purchase a water tank for the Childrens Rescue Mission, Kenya orphanage.