[HOT] Our last appeal for 2015 ... two things that close tomorrow

[Blake Girardot]

Please help HOT meet its financial goals for 2015....

https://donate.hotosm.org/

Almost everyday HOT is asked to do more for the international 
humanitarian community and every day we struggle to find ways to 
accomplish that without specific funding for those types of activities.

Just one example we are working on today: A HOT community member 
designed, planned and arraigned for EU Refugee related field work to 
collect geo-data (among other relief work) in cooperation with a small 
NGO. The NGO would provide on the ground logistics and support, but 
could not provide any financing. HOT was not able to provide the 
relatively small amount of funding required and so the community member 
had to self finance that work and they are on the ground now as I write 
this in a refugee camp. This is not uncommon with HOT volunteers funding 
their own field work because it does not fall under one of our grant 
funded projects. But this is just not sustainable.

Grants work well for specific projects, but we are doing more and more 
support work for NGOs and GIS officers as well as trying to support 
small scale local projects around the world. We love doing that work, 
building OSM skills and knowledge and helping people benefit from open 
data, but it is very difficult to do in a reliable and high quality way 
without financial support.

Please, if you can give us any size gift it will be very helpful and 
appreciated. And please share/tweet/facebook our donation site today and 
tomorrow, that is also very very helpful to our cause.

And there is still time to help us set our priorities in 2016:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HOT2016Priorities

There is no sign up or personal information or anything and I promise, 
it won't take more than 2 minutes. Time yourself doing it, I _guarantee_ 
it will NOT take more than 120 seconds!

You don't have to rank everything, just read through and mark the couple 
that catch your eye.

Cheers,
Blake
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Blake Girardot
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Vice President, HOT Board of Directors
skype: jblakegirardot
HOT Core Team Contact: info at hotosm.org