Psyvaspace Community
Psyvaspace.org is an online community of consumer/survivors (those with mental health issues). All Psyvaspace members who qualify for a free membership must be clients of a partner organization such as Progress Place, which is a clubhouse of consumer/survivors. Other examples of possible partner organizations include CAMH (a psychiatric hospital) and Sound Times (a drop-in center), and the primary mandate of all partner organizations is to serve consumer/survivors.
All clients of the partner organizations become Psyvaspace members for free. Psyvaspace users (who are consumer/survivors) can have home pages/bios, post in organization-specific or more general consumer/survivor forums, join chat rooms, write blogs, play 2-player games, interact with tutors, and browse a database of mental health resources. The forums and chat rooms are moderated by volunteers recruited by Psyvaspace.
Progress Place
Mike will teach web design, Python/Java coding to members of Clerical Unit one day per week for 6 hours (4 time slots x 1.5 hours). Maximum of 8 students accommodated (2 students per time slot). Four free software packages installed on every computer in Clerical Unit: Python, Java SDK, NetBeans, IDLE (Python editor). Mike works on volunteer basis, agreeing to a 2-year time commitment. Mike spends up to half his one day a week teaching basic computer skills and/or MS Office in case very few members sign up for web design/coding. Progress Place agrees to help beta test Psyvateach, and help recruit other clubhouses to participate in beta testing of Psyvaspace. Progress Place may or may not agree to help with data entry tasks, whereby members of the Clerical Unit perform data entry: Psyvaspace database of mental health resources. Progress Place agrees to be the first Psyvaspace partner organization, whereby many Progress Place members register with Psyvaspace, receiving their free memberships.
Psyvateach
Psyvateach is a website which links tutors with students. Some tutors charge their students an hourly rate, and Psyvateach receives 10 percent of that revenue stream. All volunteer tutors teach members of Psyvaspace, an online community of consumer/survivors. The tutors teach math, literacy, and coding. A web-based interactive whiteboard enables the tutor to interact with a single student. The tutor and student take turns interacting with the whiteboard. At the beginning of each turn, every move (mouse clicks and text entered during the previous turn) is replayed, and then further interaction takes place. Prefabricated lessons are prepared by volunteer curriculum-writers and displayed on the interactive whiteboard.
Psyvaboard
Psyvaboard is a website where you can play 2-player non-animated games: think board games and card games. You can also create your own Psyvaboard games using Java and Lystagger.
Psyvaboard Members
Psyvaboard members can create home pages/bios written in Lystagger, post in forums, view games in progress, participate in tournaments, and hold player rating values for each Psyvaboard game they are involved with. An example of a player rating value is a chess rating, where a rating of 1700 or more would be held by a very skilled chess player. The "Outer Forum" is a special forum used only by no-name users, who have read/write access to that forum.
Revenue and Expenses
Assume 50 percent of revenue comes from tutor fees, and 50 percent from subscription fees. Assume tutors charge $35/hour x 2 hours/week/student x 4 students/tutor x 50 weeks/year x 100 tutors x 10 percent = $140,000/year. So gross annual revenue = $280,000. Assume conversion rate of 5 percent. Subscription fee revenue = $140,000/year. Dividing by $10/subscriber/year = 14,000 subscribers = 280,000 users.
Expenses include Google AdWords ads = $300/month and web hosting say, almost $1000/month. Total is roughly $15,000/year, which leaves $265,000/year for staff salaries. Assume Executive Director makes $65K. Then the other 4 paid employees each make $50K. Mike works for free since his investment income covers much of his living expenses. In this Scenario #1, no money is left over to compensate the partner organizations, and miscellaneous expenses such as rent and utilities are ignored.
In Scenario #2, assume that there are only 100,000 users but revenue stays the same. Subscription fee revenue = 100,000 users x 5 percent x $10/subscriber/year = $50,000/year. Then tutor fee revenue = $230,000/year, and the no. of tutors = $230,000/year divided by ($35/hour x 2 hours/week/student x 4 students/tutor x 50 weeks/year x 10 percent) = $230,000 / 1400 = 164 tutors, as opposed to just 100 tutors in Scenario #1.