[fundraising] fundraising implementation

[Jamie O'Keefe]

> Jamie O'Keefe regarding email fundraising (contacted and draft now in
> process).

I sent this out to the fundraising list on Sunday.  I will forward to
run and wendy.

> Torben Russo volunteered to help also with database management, as did
> Jennifer Mazer. Before calling them about this, we have to understand the needs
> better. We'd also like to provide backup to Dan Melnechuk who pretty much
> single-handedly manages label generation for all the monthly mailings (reminders,
> thank-you's, etc).

Dan and I keep missing each other.  I will ping him again.

> Mike Castranova, Pat Keaney, and Lisa Richards have volunteered for planning
> events whenever that proceeds.
> Eva Kerr and Grace Ross for major fundraising mailings (once or twice a
> year).
> Volunteers who have not indicated a specific activity include Wendy, Jon
> Levy, Owen Broadhurst, Emily Lewis (source? I thought she had discontinued
> committee work), and Alejandro Beltran (the New Yorker?).
>
> As you can see, there are actually several things in the works. And since
> both Grace and Dan are on AdCom as well as this list, maybe they would be willing
> to be our liaison to AdCom??
>
> Further, when Gil moved to New York, I became the only list Moderator. I
> think it's wise to have more than one and since I would like to withdraw from
> that, there's room for two to volunteer. At the moment, there's little work
> because I programmed the list to reject emails from anyone who is not on the list.
> All we were getting was tons and tons of spam.

I can be one of the two.  It isn't much work.

> (2) For both expcom fundraising and major donor fundraising, we need a brief
> description of the Abolish Poverty March. Is there a newsletter article about
> it? If so, that might fill the bill.

One thing Jonathan Leavitt put together way back when was a high donor
information packet.  This included a description of the party, major
accomplishments and financial information and future plans.  This
would be given to the prospective donor on the first meeting.

> Finally, in case you haven't heard, on one of his recent phone calls, Brian
> raised $500 from someone who had previously given $300. That was a good day's
> work!!

Yeah!  Good example moving existing donors to higher levels of
committment.  Probably would be useful to have him write down what he
did so we can get others to apply it to existing donors.

Jamie