Yesterday someone asked me what the engagement team is up to, and it made me sad because I realized I need to do a waaaaay better job of broadcasting my team’s work. This team is dope and you need to know about it.

As a refresher, our work encompasses these areas:

• Grantwriting
• Institutional partnerships
• Marketing and communications
• Small dollar fundraising
• Production work (i.e. Studio Mofo)

In short, we aim to support the Webmaker product and programs and our leadership pipelines any time we need to engage individuals or institutions.

What’s currently on our plate:

Pro-tip: You can always see what we’re up to by checking out the Engagement Team Workbench.

These days we’re spending our time on the following:

• End of Year Fundraising: With the help of a slew of kick-ass engineers, Andrea and Kelli are getting to $2M. (view the Workbench).
• Mozilla Gear launch: Andrea and Geoffrey are obsessed with branded hoodies. To complement our fundraising efforts, they just opened a brand new site for people to purchase Mozilla Gear (view the project management spreadsheet).
• Fall Campaign: Remember the 10K contributor goal? We do! An-Me and Paul have been working with Claw, Amira, Michelle, and Lainie, among others, to close the gap through a partner-based strategy (view the Workbench).
• Mobile Opportunity: Ben is helping to envision and build partnerships around this work, and Paul and Studio Mofo are providing marketing, comms, and production support (the Mobile Opportunity Workbench is here, the engagement-specific work will be detailed soon).
• Building a Webmaker Marketing Plan for 2015: The site and programs aren’t going to market themselves! Paul is drafting a comprehensive marketing calendar for 2015 that complements the product and program strategies. (plan coming soon)
• 2015 Grants Pipeline: Ben and An-Me are always on the lookout for opportunities, and Lynn is responsible for writing grants and reports to fund our various programs and initiatives.
• Additional Studio Mofo projects: Erika, Mavis, and Sabrina are always working on something. In addition to their work supporting most of the above, you can see a full list of projects here.
• Salesforce for grants and partnerships: We’ve completed a custom Salesforce installation and Ben has begun the process of training staff to use it. Much more to come to make it a meaningful part of our workflow (Workbench coming soon).
• Open Web Fellows recruitment: We’re supporting our newest fellowship with marketing support (view the Hype Plan)

http://hannahgrams.com/2014/11/26/we-are-very-engaging/