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Earned Income Plan

RYSE Center
Richmond, CA, USA
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Posted May 8th

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Earned Income Plan

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What we need
  • Assessment of past income-generating activities that our organization has already undertaken.
  • Recommendations for addressing the opportunities and challenges that we have identified through trial and error.
  • Actionable steps necessary to implement recommendations that build our capacity to take on income-generating projects without fundamentally alterting our program as a whole. 
  • A template for assessing and executing potential income-generating activities across a variety of potential career fields that are mangaged by our multiple departments. 
  • Challenges and potential risks identified in pursuing the plan.
What we have in place
  • We currently have professional production equipment, multiple employees with professional experience in visual arts, video production, and music production, and some experience with income-generating projects already undertaken by our organization. One of our core values as an organization is creativity and innovation so we are invested into trying new things. We have also been actively engaged in a process of researching similar models used by other successful organizations through site visits, in-person meetings, and online research.
How this will help
This project will save us $11,794 , allowing us to host two community arts and entertainment events for 1000 community members who enjoy healthy and positive community gatherings.

We have been highly successful in training youth as media producers and many of them now have the skills to produce professional quality work. As a result, we are constantly approached by other organizations, companies, and individuals to do projects for pay. What we need is support institutionalizing our process of accepting and executing projects in a way that is manageable by our staff and consistent with our larger mission. The ability to take on more projects would support our organization with additional income, and would provide youth with professional experiences they could use to start businesses in the future.

Project plan

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Prep: Distribution of Prep Materials
  • Volunteer Manager provides all relevant marketing and branding materials, including but not limited to annual reports, fundraising collateral, website copy and information on representative stakeholders such as donors, advocates, and constituents served
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Milestone 1: Analysis and Feedback
  • Professional provides initial analysis of existing programs, constituents served, and representative supporters
  • Professional and Volunteer Manager brainstorm potential revenue-generation streams and potential target markets
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Milestone 2: Recommendations
  • Professional provides recommendations for most promising revenue streams, target markets and customers/supporters
  • Volunteer Manager provides feedback, and a specific revenue stream is chosen
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Milestone 3: Delivery of Plan
  • Professional provides the actionable steps, costs, and time estimates involved in developing the income stream
  • Professional outlines key milestones and performance indicators to help assist the Organization as they execute the plan
  • Professional outlines and challenges to be aware of as the Organization executes on plan should also be laid out
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RYSE Center
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Dan R.

Director of Media Arts & Innovation

Our mission

RYSE creates safe spaces grounded in social justice that build youth power for young people to love, learn, educate, heal and transform lives and communities

What we do

RYSE was born out of a youth organizing movement initiated in 2000 in response to a string of homicides amongst youth near Richmond High School that galvanized students to take action to address the violence and lack of safety at school and in the community. Students organized vigils and community forums with over 1,500 youth and community members, met and worked with local officials and stakeholders on a comprehensive assessment of youth-identified priorities and solutions, culminating in the RYSE Youth Center (RYSE), which opened its doors on October 18, 2008.

RYSE's primary strategies to influence change include: (1) create programs grounded in racial justice and oriented towards systems change and system transformation, (2) involve young people in all levels of organizational design, program implementation and evaluation, (3) develop integrative strengths programming that allows for multiple points of entry and engagement while still feeling like "one program" both on and offsite, (4) incorporate popular education in all aspects of RYSE programming, (5) utilize media, arts and culture in all aspects of programming, (6) build youth capacity to outreach, engage, advocate for and develop program design based on harm-reduction, restorative justice, and trauma-informed best practices, and (7) utilize cross-sector, cross-community collaboration.

Now five years old, RYSE is serving just over 1,750 members, ages 13-21. RYSE offers programs in media, art and culture; leadership and organizing; education and career; community health and wellness; and youth justice and supports for system involved youth and we strive to ensure that young people continue to be the drivers of program design and implementation.

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