Team SOS
Our Background:
We are a group from the land of for profit businesses and all have spent a significant time assisting non profits and growing non profit programs.
We have assembled our board based upon specialized talent or talents that when combined, there is the maximum amount of synergy of top resources for most any task.
And all of us are especially passionate about "green" and our planet resources and for new and innovative ways to make the most of them through application in daily life.
The Team:
Sid Rimmington:- Executive Director of SOS: Sid is a retired management consultant with over thirty five years national and international experience in assisting clients to grow their business and improve their operations. Sid now wants to ''give back" and sees how he can best utilize his skills to empower others.
Gary Nichols: - President of SOS. Gary has been involved in green and growing since the 1970's and is constantly learning how to weave more of the same into his lifestyle. He currently does consulting and marketing for a few hand picked "green" clients and is a licensed real estate broker whose specialty is in creating value in residential real estate through growing. He also oversees the new SOS program "Charlie's Gardens" dedicated to his father who passed in 2011.
Randolph Fischer, Ph.D.- Randy is a college-level Professor of English who has had extensive experience teaching English in Saudi Arabia. He has been a Board member of the SOS Foundation since its inception and is well versed in working with other non-profits, major corporations, and grantors.
Marcus Maedl:- Marcus owns and operates a successful solar installation and consulting business based on California's Central Coast serving both residential and commercial clients. He has a wealth of experience in engineering, project financing and strategic business development with a list of clients around the globe. Visit him at www.maedl.com.
Gary Clark - Is a freelance writer with many years, broadcasting, business and consulting experience. Visit him at www.write4me.com.
"Non-Profit World": The new SOS team brings decades of personal experience in the non-profit realm and additionally some strong industry contacts. For example, The Grant Connection is a proven grant-writing and strategic-planning company with unique potential for unique potential for fiscal sponsorship: the ability for a newly formed non-profit (or a for-profit) with a product/service that can be expanded in the non-profit arena.
Our Mission:
The SOS Foundation awakens community-minded individuals and social-cause businesses to the potential for improving the lives of all those they touch, regardless of the local area where they reside.
How we achieve our mission:
SOS accomplishes this through a proven, systematized approach using updated, internet-based and localized resources, combined with a "hands on" consultative approach - all within a real-world business setting.
We plan to offer training and/or re-training to former -or retired- military personnel in the areas of new business start-up, internet business activity and housing planning/construction opportunities.
We will offer and provide foundational (re)education designed to lead quickly into specific employment and/or enhanced social-business opportunity depending on the needs of the individual or the social-business within their chosen field.
Our Business Advantages:
We have knowledge of fund-raising and internet-based business practices far in advance of most other non-profits.
We can solicit donations not just through normal channels but via the internet using strategic email campaigns combined with social media and cutting edge mobile giving platforms.
· We can apply for grants.
· We can receive donations and give full IRS benefits to all donors
Of tax deductible funds
Of donors' surplus inventory written off at above fire-sale prices
Of "in-kind" support (such as labor, equipment, and software)
Of volunteer labor (that can become "paid" using the SOS model)
· We can offer/sell products in support of "fund-raising", and market them to other NPs.
· We can design projects to benefit our community and the mutually beneficial goals of our donors.
· We can develop programs and concepts to be made available to other non-profits, for their own benefit.
· We can sub-contract project tasks to third-party vendors.
· We can recruit needed volunteer help.
· We have full use of real estate broker's license.
· We can offer fee based services, such as:
Fiscal sponsorship; Virtual-office/outsourced fulfillment; Advertising and promotion with web based and traditional methods; Consulting on "best practices" and "how-to" services.
We bring the knowledge/gameplan of how best to combine the non profit and for profit worlds for the most impact and return for all involved.
And most of all, we can empower all those that choose to ally with us for the benefit of many...
We are a group from the land of for profit businesses and all have spent a significant time assisting non profits and growing non profit programs.
We have assembled our board based upon specialized talent or talents that when combined, there is the maximum amount of synergy of top resources for most any task.
And all of us are especially passionate about "green" and our planet resources and for new and innovative ways to make the most of them through application in daily life.
The Team:
Sid Rimmington:- Executive Director of SOS: Sid is a retired management consultant with over thirty five years national and international experience in assisting clients to grow their business and improve their operations. Sid now wants to ''give back" and sees how he can best utilize his skills to empower others.
Gary Nichols: - President of SOS. Gary has been involved in green and growing since the 1970's and is constantly learning how to weave more of the same into his lifestyle. He currently does consulting and marketing for a few hand picked "green" clients and is a licensed real estate broker whose specialty is in creating value in residential real estate through growing. He also oversees the new SOS program "Charlie's Gardens" dedicated to his father who passed in 2011.
Randolph Fischer, Ph.D.- Randy is a college-level Professor of English who has had extensive experience teaching English in Saudi Arabia. He has been a Board member of the SOS Foundation since its inception and is well versed in working with other non-profits, major corporations, and grantors.
Marcus Maedl:- Marcus owns and operates a successful solar installation and consulting business based on California's Central Coast serving both residential and commercial clients. He has a wealth of experience in engineering, project financing and strategic business development with a list of clients around the globe. Visit him at www.maedl.com.
Gary Clark - Is a freelance writer with many years, broadcasting, business and consulting experience. Visit him at www.write4me.com.
"Non-Profit World": The new SOS team brings decades of personal experience in the non-profit realm and additionally some strong industry contacts. For example, The Grant Connection is a proven grant-writing and strategic-planning company with unique potential for unique potential for fiscal sponsorship: the ability for a newly formed non-profit (or a for-profit) with a product/service that can be expanded in the non-profit arena.
Our Mission:
The SOS Foundation awakens community-minded individuals and social-cause businesses to the potential for improving the lives of all those they touch, regardless of the local area where they reside.
How we achieve our mission:
SOS accomplishes this through a proven, systematized approach using updated, internet-based and localized resources, combined with a "hands on" consultative approach - all within a real-world business setting.
We plan to offer training and/or re-training to former -or retired- military personnel in the areas of new business start-up, internet business activity and housing planning/construction opportunities.
We will offer and provide foundational (re)education designed to lead quickly into specific employment and/or enhanced social-business opportunity depending on the needs of the individual or the social-business within their chosen field.
Our Business Advantages:
We have knowledge of fund-raising and internet-based business practices far in advance of most other non-profits.
We can solicit donations not just through normal channels but via the internet using strategic email campaigns combined with social media and cutting edge mobile giving platforms.
· We can apply for grants.
· We can receive donations and give full IRS benefits to all donors
Of tax deductible funds
Of donors' surplus inventory written off at above fire-sale prices
Of "in-kind" support (such as labor, equipment, and software)
Of volunteer labor (that can become "paid" using the SOS model)
· We can offer/sell products in support of "fund-raising", and market them to other NPs.
· We can design projects to benefit our community and the mutually beneficial goals of our donors.
· We can develop programs and concepts to be made available to other non-profits, for their own benefit.
· We can sub-contract project tasks to third-party vendors.
· We can recruit needed volunteer help.
· We have full use of real estate broker's license.
· We can offer fee based services, such as:
Fiscal sponsorship; Virtual-office/outsourced fulfillment; Advertising and promotion with web based and traditional methods; Consulting on "best practices" and "how-to" services.
We bring the knowledge/gameplan of how best to combine the non profit and for profit worlds for the most impact and return for all involved.
And most of all, we can empower all those that choose to ally with us for the benefit of many...
