In 2009 we want to make visible the various ministry opportunities/project that have been requested by our user base in the hopes that many of you might be able to say: I see the need for that project and I can support it with my time, talents and/or resources. To get this increased visibility bible.org will establish a public project approval process that takes user input as part of the project approval process and throughout the development processes. Projects can be pure ministry projects where all expenditures must be supplied outside the project or they can be hybrid projects where some of the expenditures are recovered from the users/benefactors of the project either through donations or by "tentmaking". Paul is an example of a tentmaker, in Acts 18:3 he worked in a tentmaking job so he could minister without needing support from those he was serving. Likewise here at bible.org we may  need to increase our tentmaking activities when funds from sales and donations are not sufficient to pay the Internet bills and the salaries of those who labor developing new content or web technology. 

 

How will this New Project Approval process work?

1. Step 1- Write up a proposal: New partnerships or projects are birthed by someone proposing a new or an expanded ministry project. Anyone can propose a project for the bible.org team and its partners to do. All proposed projects will need an “advocate” who will be responsible for writing up the proposal, incorporating user input and submitting it to the project oversight board.

2. Step 2: Project Oversight Board Review: this board reviews the proposal to see if they are consistent with the goals, and the core competences of bible.org and its partners. At the conclusion of the review, the proposed project will be either

   1. approved with the resources (people and funds) assigned: proceed to step 3a or
   2. approved but needing additional resources (people and funds): proceed to step 3b
   3. denied and returned to the requester if it is deemed outside the scope of our vision statement 

3. Step 3a: For those proposals approved with the resources a project manager is assigned to proceed to develop a detailed project plan and the project is given a number in the 1.0 series and placed on the Approved Projects List. 
4. Step 3b: For those proposals approved but needing additional resources (people and funds) an advocate is assigned to see if they can raise the resources necessary to begin the project planning process and it is given a NR classification for  (Needing Resources) and placed on the Approved Projects List
5. Step 4: Both the Current and the Needing Resources Projects will be given visibility on the bible.org web site and interested users will be invited to volunteer and/or become members of the projects to advise/support as they are able. Periodic reviews will be conducted by the project oversight board and made available to those interested in following the progress as we track the implementation progress.

• Project name____________________ and description (summary)
• The name and email for the point of contact for more information about the project
• name____________________ Email_________________________
• Describe the Need/Requirement
• Describe the benefit to the community of users
• Project description (detailed but not more than a page)
• Indicate any meaningful or natural development phases of the project (specifically describe a phase 1 for initial operations and a proof of concept)
• It is necessary to understand the minium amount of resources needed to begin the project (your phase 1). Estimate of the resources required to begin and the time to complete the project and if multi phase your phase 1 (including estimates of additional bandwidth costs). The name of any volunteers that are interested in working on the project and any sponsors or funding that has already been identified as available to the project