GEFS PROSPECTIVE COURSES
11/21/08
.N8 Philosophy & Activism, Natural Diet & Healthcare;
.J9 Cuop Business, Permaculture & Organic Growing, Alternative Technology, Arts & Crafts, and other alternative subjects
BUSINESS PLAN
2008-2013 for
Golden Eagle Friends School (GEFS)
Lloyd Kinder
RR1, Box 50, Golden Eagle, IL 62036
LKINDR@yahoo.com
October 2008
CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION
2 OBJECTIVES re GEF SCHOOL SERVICES
3 MARKETING PLAN
4 FINANCING PLAN
5 PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATION PLAN
6 NEEDS
7 LOCATION
8 MY HISTORY
9 MY EXPERIENCE RE GEF SCHOOL SUBJECTS
(Front Cover: page 1)
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1. INTRODUCTION
- The Purpose of this Business Plan
is to clarify and organize needed actions and assets and to interest people in the school's efforts.
- The key aspect of this plan is how the school would benefit both the health and quality of communities and the careers of those who participate in the school, i.e. of students, teachers, volunteers & associates.
- Vision
- I envision Golden Eagle Friends School providing knowledge and experience that will improve the quality of life of people in local communities and via the internet in communities throughout the world and these will greatly improve the health or quality of our society.
- The primary goal of our free school-in-the-making is maximum human progress for all, especially via the transformation of all governments into freedom supporting organizations. The latter would include empowered monitors and correctors of government abuses. The transformed organizations would also create knowledge institutes, which would preserve, advance, constantly update and prevent suppression of all important knowledge. Knowledge is currently suppressed by the ruling class's force-feeding of society its version of reality via control of education and the major media.
- Grand View
- Society would surely be better off not focused on money, but on everyone learning healthy living in cooperation with each other.
- Instead of getting a job to make money to survive, we can work with others in community, while enjoying nature, and both survive and thrive.
- Instead of paying taxes that feed the war machine and its investors, we can do things for free and for donations, so we don't feed the machine, but we only feed our communities' peaceful prosperity.
- Instead of driving cars to work every workday, we can stay home in our communities most of the week and reduce pollution and waste.
- Instead of paying high prices for junk foods and its packaging by agribusiness, contributing to our ill health and unhappiness, we can grow most of our food and prepare it ourselves, increasing our health and happiness.
- Instead of paying insurance companies (which are part of the war machine) to "insure" our families' health, we can rely on our own health knowledge and that of friends and internet help.
- Instead of letting poorly trained teachers indoctrinate our kids in compulsory schools, we can educate them ourselves with help from experienced friends and the internet.
- Instead of letting doctors vaccinate our kids at school or in hospitals with toxic concoctions from the war machine's drug companies, we can support each other's right to choose our own healthcare methods.
- Instead of giving our kids junk advertised in the war machine's major media, helping them become addicts of the system, we can give them fun and responsible experiences that help them learn to build a better alternative system.
- I'm eager for the human race to come of age, so that people will become highly responsible and find ways to end war, strife, greed, recklessness, apathy, misery in favor of world peace and prosperity, as well as peaceful exploration and colonization of other worlds.
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- My Role
- I want to help coordinate the teaching of students in the above-named subjects.
- I will meet young adults and others via the internet etc and via weekly gift-giving events and expect to find talented and motivated people among them who will enjoy learning and teaching those subjects and cooperating to improve the conditions of society locally and worldwide.
- Targeted clients will be young adults, progressives, libertarians, idealists, environmentalists, techies, artists, new agers, altruists, survivalists, ruralites, the sick, the poor, parents and others.
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*2* MAIN OBJECTIVES re GEF SCHOOL SERVICES
*-1. to give thorough knowledge and experience to students on the subjects of:
***Philosophy & Activism
**Cuop Business
**Natural Diet & Healthcare
**Permaculture & Organic Growing
- Plan
I teach **Philosophy, ***Political Activism
**- New teachers teach the same
Date; Students; Teachers; Branches; Events/Wk; Donations/Wk (= Expenses)
.J9 ..... 10 ....... 2 ....... 2 ........ 2 ........ 500
.L9 .... 100 ....... 5 ....... 4 ........ 7 ...... 2,100
.J10 ... 300 ...... 15 ...... 20 ....... 30 ...... 9,000
.J11 _ 1,000 ...... 40 ..... 100 ...... 150 ..... 45,000
.J12 _ 5,000 ..... 100 ..... 700 .... 1,000 .... 300,000
.J13 _25,000 ..... 300 ... 2,000 .... 7,000 .. 2,100,000
-2- re Marketing:
**- to develop a professional website with user-friendly registration forms for students, with persuasive educational offers,
***-4- re Organization & People:
- to organize teachers, students, volunteers and partners sociocratically as a cooperative, wherein all participants and supporters share ownership of the school;
-5- re Equipment & Location:
**- to have teaching locations at properties of other school participants and co-operators.
3. MARKETING PLAN
- Target clients will be:
**- young adults, progressives, libertarians
**- et al worldwide via internet and via other chapters or branches of the school.
**- Means of Getting Students will be by:
**- Volunteer recruiters
*- CL ads and local emails;
**- The School's Major Advantages are that:
-all courses are focused on benefiting society, not on promoting greed or selfishness;
-courses are up-to-date, open to new findings, non-authoritarian;
-students are actively involved in learning and teaching, not passive;
-they participate in sharing knowledge, when they want to;
-they learn to be co-leaders, rather than mere followers;
-they develop true responsibility;
-hours are totally flexible;
-the school is totally free of charge;
-and it maximizes fun and minimizes displeasure, rather than conditioning students to boredom and following orders;
-grades are only G = Graduate; if not yet qualified, no grade is given;
-although students are not encouraged to enter the mainstream, their work in their chosen courses will count as employment, that can be listed on their resume's, which is more meaningful than conventional college degrees;
-students are supported after graduation too.
How do other schools compare to GEFS?
1. Are they focused on promoting a new culture of peace, and boycotting the culture of war and greed?
2a. Is the school or training or guidance non-authoritarian?
b. Are decisions made by consensus unanimous rule?
c. Is sensitivity to feelings practiced and taught, like nonviolent communication?
d. Is the organization a co-operative, in which all participants are owners?
e. Is it a "church", which is not required to have any ties to the government, such as by filing with the IRS etc, as per 501c3?
3a. Are students or trainees actively involved in learning and teaching, instead of being passive?
b. Do they participate in sharing knowledge, when they choose to?
c. Do they learn to be co-leaders, rather than mere followers?
d. Are they helped to develop true responsibility as co-leaders?
4. Are class or apprenticeship hours totally flexible?
5a. Is the school or training or guidance totally free of charge?
b. Are the management and staff volunteers, or paid by donations?
6. Does it maximize fun and minimize displeasure, rather than conditioning students to boredom and following orders?
7a. Does it give only one grade, G for Graduate?
b. If students are not yet qualified, is no grade given?
8. Does their practice work in their chosen courses count as "employment", that can be listed on their resume's, since that is more meaningful than conventional college degrees?
9. Are students or trainees supported after graduation too?
4. FINANCING PLAN
- Cash Flow
**- Donations that come in each week will be distributed to teachers each week and to students etc each month, as determined by consensus decision making for a co-operative.
5. PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATION PLAN
**- The school is organized as a church, which does not need to be under IRS supervision, according to IRS law, as stated at CFR Title 26, Section 501c3. The teachers are therefore ministers, which means servants to students.
**- The Board of Directors includes
-- the teachers
-- partners
-- representatives of subgroups
**The subgroups will include:
--- the students
--- staff
--- donors
--- local parents
--- and other local community members.
-- Each subgroup will have 2 representatives each, one chosen by the BoD, the other by the subgroup.
--- The BoD will meet once a month.
--- Subgroups will meet monthly but autonomously.
--- Decisions will be made by consensus.
**- Job Titles include
Board Members, Teachers, Staff, Students and Community Reps.
**- Duties
-- The Board manages the school and facilitates internal & external relationships.
-- The teacher/adviser/student-helper job involves helping students learn their chosen subjects according to the Board's guidelines and deciding whether to do or request fund-raising to help fund oneself and or any of the students' projects.
-- The recruiter jobs involve finding people to be students, teacher/adviser/student-helper, or staff.
-- Staff jobs involve making course material, building a website and communicating with staff members, students, potential students, supporters and the public. The staff assists Teachers and Board Members with secretarial functions and volunteer work.
-- Community Reps represent subgroups' concerns at Board Meetings.
- Board Members are: [to be mentioned later]...........................
**- The School plans to expand geometrically as explained in the chart above. *- As the number of teachers expands, the number of Teacher Assistants is intended to expand by the same amount. Students will be asked to be Teacher Assistants.
3. MARKETING PLAN
- Market Research Results
*Ask potential clients what they want when and where.
And report findings here.)
- The Distribution Channel/s of School Services will be:
*- information on school websites, other forums, emails and weekend gift-giving event flyers and speeches,
*- and students', teachers' and co-operators' properties and branch schools.
*2. OBJECTIVES re GEF SCHOOL SERVICES
*-2. aiding students in starting their careers
*- via ongoing guidance counseling; and
*-3. providing educational services and guidance counseling to communities and groups
