Timing is important. An awful lot of charity-granting angel-type projects are on an annual grant cycle. You'll need to have a time frame when you'll need to get how much money, to see if you can wrangle grant proposals in enough time for the dev part, not just the actual event. You may end up being the person pulling together grant proposals, which includes proving how effective it could be.
It would be a really good idea to talk to the Girl Scouts HQ folks too (I couldn't tell if you already had), I know some of the older more advanced badges involve development of projects like this, doing your own work. They'll have fundraising ideas and they may be able to recruit girls who are native speakers (always a great idea for working with the computer dev end long before issues crop up live.)
Beyond that, there's crowd-sourcing to get the funding, such as Kickstarter.
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Date: 30 Oct 2012 04:29 am (UTC)Timing is important. An awful lot of charity-granting angel-type projects are on an annual grant cycle. You'll need to have a time frame when you'll need to get how much money, to see if you can wrangle grant proposals in enough time for the dev part, not just the actual event. You may end up being the person pulling together grant proposals, which includes proving how effective it could be.
It would be a really good idea to talk to the Girl Scouts HQ folks too (I couldn't tell if you already had), I know some of the older more advanced badges involve development of projects like this, doing your own work. They'll have fundraising ideas and they may be able to recruit girls who are native speakers (always a great idea for working with the computer dev end long before issues crop up live.)
Beyond that, there's crowd-sourcing to get the funding, such as Kickstarter.