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1 | Book Finances Updated to 6/12/2025 (profit covers all book expenses and the surplus is donated to Gardens of Liberation) | Updating or closed | |||
2 | Book income from Indiegogo in 2022 | $9,019 | x | x | |
3 | Book income from google form prior to creating ecommerce | $870 | x | x | |
4 | Book income from ecommerce preorders (3/27/24-8/16/24) | $7,275 | Details of breakdown between FF and other ecommerce available by clicking on this cell 50% of 4/1- $652.71 via paypal = $326 0% of 4/6 and 4/9 via ecommerce 0% of 4/27 via paypal 45% of 5/2 - $1,797.7 via ecommerce =$809 61% of 6/3 - $1,267.58 and $2618.48. =$2,370 100% of 6/27 - $132.66 via paypal. =$133 47% of 6/27 - $574.28 via ecomerce =$270 60% of 7/28 - $337.07 via paypal =$202 60% of 7/28 - $1,221.33 via ecommerce =$733 77% of 8/27 - $2,319.04 via paypal =$1,787 77% of 8/27 - $838.55 via ecommerce =$645 | x | |
5 | Book income from ecommerce after release 8/16/24 to 10/26/24 | $8,702 | Details of breakdown between FF and other ecommerce available by clicking on this cell 100% of 9/25 $680.89 via paypal =$681 87% of 9/27 - $7,215.31 via ecommerce =$6,277 100% of 10/27 $121.92 via paypal =$122 62% of 10/27 - $2,615.91 via ecommerce =$1,622 | x | |
6 | Book income from ecommerce after release 8/16/24 to 10/27/24 via venmo | $1,123 | x | x | |
7 | Book income from ecommerce 10/27/24-12/25/24 | $5,820 | 60% of $6,272 total amount into ecommerce this period = $3,763 57% of $2,152 total amount into ecommerce + 100% of venmo ($539) and paypal ($291) this period =$2,057 | x | |
8 | Book income from ecommerce 12/26/24-6/12/25 | $1,282 | $442 ecommerce + $840 between venmo and paypal | ||
9 | Cost of 5,000 copies (including ebook creation) | $14,823 | Payments: $5,631.92 on 6/18, $10,503 on 8/5, $115.40 on 8/12 minus $1,427 reimbursement by Sheridan | x | |
10 | Writing help for Empowerment Manual from Sebastiano | $900 | Sebastiano took some of the content that was already written and cut it down to fit more concisely into the book. | x | |
11 | Print Ready PDF files made by Soundview Design | $915 | x | x | |
12 | Book cover design by Joe Greenfield | $250 | x Curious of why we had a family member do this job? Because he has the skills, the availability on a short time frame and we can trust that he'll do the job. Market rate was quoted at $1,500. And with full transparency we like to hire people close to us to distribute the funds within the community, whether that is colleagues, friends or family. As long as they are right for the task at hand. | x | |
13 | Creating ecommerce site - Rikki Ocampos | $2,000 | x Transparency note: The ecommerce site was difficult to create because of the unusual system we created including the choose your own donation system and the ability to order anything at no cost. Creating the ecommerce system ended up being a substantially larger task than planned and then we dealth with months of technical difficulties. Fortunately most of the technical difficulties were taken care of by volunteers as well as many hours by Robin. The ecommerce setup has potentially tuned out to be an ineffective usage of funds. | x | |
14 | Admin expenses up to publishing | $1,200 | (Managing the Indiegogo, doing research and self-publishing research - Seba and Belle in 2022 / Finding printing company - Joe Greenfield in early 2023 /Working with printer to get everything set up - Emer in 2023 / Cover design and working with printer to decide paper, etc. - Tori. The whole process of researching in order to print with the highest integrity added up to many hours. Quite a few of the hours for this were done by volunteers. The $1,200 spent here is a fraction of the labor it took in publishing this book. | x | |
15 | Shipping cost of presales, gifted books and many boxes to events and distributors via stamps.com | $6,250 | A portion of this large amount spent on shipping is sending many boxes to ambassadors and distributors at no expense to them. With our expenses paid in advance, we hope that these books now being distributed the ground will generate donations over the next few months. We also mailed a lot of free copies to start. | x | |
16 | Msc. expenses up to (up to 6/12/2025) | $110 | $20 for printing signs for distribution locations on 9/24, $90 book review submissions on 10/7 | x | |
17 | Cost of shipping of books via stamps.com (up to 6/12/2025) | $3,543 | $242.75 on 8/6, $25 on 9/9, $1,100 between 9/10 and 9/17, $300 on 9/26 $300 on 10/3, $300 on 10/10 (-$75 was SFTP), $100 on 10/25 minus $550 for cost of shipping Be the Change that is included in the stamps.com transactions above. - 6 full boxes at $30 each, 8 half boxes at ~$15, $250 cost of shipping individual books along with 250 of the Food Freedom pre-orders (shipping went up $1 per package), $500 on 11/22, 12/3 $500, 12/4 $300, 12/4 $500 (Not including $1,500 paid by David as of 12/13) | updating | |
18 | Cost of materials for shipping (up to 6/12/2025) | $642 | $284.75 on 7/30, $53.46 for shipping labels on 8/15, $10 samples from Econoclose on 9/15 $40 for purchasing a printer for shipping labels on 9/24, $128 for 200 mailers and 200 shipping labels from Econoclose on 9/24, $125.36 for 250 mailers and 200 shipping labels from Econoclose on 11/22, $60 on 12/2 | x | |
19 | Payments to teammates managing sending from Port Townsend (up to 12/25/2024) | $1,634 | $825 Delylah 9/8 through 10/11, $100 Rebecca 9/8, $100 Libby on 8/15, $299 Jeanette 11/1-11/23, $250 Jeanette 12/14 | x | |
20 | Nathaniel Service (up to 6/12/2025) | $160 | Order support, webpages creation and maintenence, basic research and general online support | updating | |
21 | Miranda Service (up to 6/12/2025) | $240 | Helping with book distribution | updating | |
22 | Newsletters sent via Brevo | $368 | $406 REJ spent 6/22. 50% of this is Food Freedom. $165 on 10/13 for additional credits | x | |
23 | Stamps.com fees (up to 6/12/2025) | $26 | $13 on 8/9, $13 on 10/10 | updating | |
24 | Admin expenses for Second Print (up to 6/12/2025) (to add Soundview Designs) | $370 | Edits to manuscript and proofreading new PDF files for second print, plus working with publisher on getting new cover material | ||
25 | Cash at Port Townsend event - $195 received, then paid to Rebecca cash. This $195 is null | $195 | x | x | |
26 | Gardens of Liberation Donations | $1,500 | $500 to People’s Medicine School, $500 Linda Black Elk’s food sovereignty initiatives, $500 Makoce Ikikcupi. We made these donations using funds from our pre-sales | updating | |
27 | Total in | $34,091 | Cost per book (physical only) | $2.70 | |
28 | Total out (not including Gardens of Liberation donations) | $33,431 | Cost per book (including development) | $3.65 | |
29 | Donations Made to Gardens of Liberation | $1,500 | |||
30 | Balance | -$840 | $840 is the revenue left to break even including the $1,500 already donated to Gardens of Liberation. After we break even all profits will be donated to Gardens of Liberation | ||
31 | Total donations | $1,500 | |||
32 | % donated | 4% | A note of our hopes for funds coming in: We hope for this percentage to go up to 20% or more. We have distributed a large quantity of boxes of books to our Food Freedom Ambassadors and to some Distributors and we are hopeful that donations will come in as they are distributed through these outlets. We also hope that as people who already have received the book will complete reading it and they will be inspired and donate. We also hope that our eBook will generate funds long after we run out of paperback copies. We are setting up our Google Ads Grant now giving the ebook away as a gift and hope that this can generate some meaninful funding. As of 12/13 we only have ~80 of the 5,000 from the first printing left in stock at Robin Press. Likely many of the over 2,000 of that have been sent out to ambassadors and distributors are yet to be distributed. We have a decentralized inventory and distribution system and it will be interesting to see if this generates funds after the books are out of our hands. |