[fundraising] AdCom

[Jim Bosman]

Merelice, I spoke with Owen the other day and I have
exchanged emails with Suel Bartone. Hampden, Hampshire
and Franklin County conventions are pretty much all
established in terms of date time and location and
this has been communicated to newsletter folks.

On communication: Dan, Wendy, Grace, Owen, and any
other Adcom members getting this email: When I was on
Adcom, I always cross-posted Adcom's meeting minutes
to the Statecom and Locals email lists in order to
help keep the greater GRP community informed about
what Adcom was up to. It is an easy way to help foster
transparency. You might want to consider
re-establishing that practice.

On 10/7 I received a postcard notifying me that my
membership dues were up for renewal on 10/30. Thanks
for sending the postcard. I hope to renew soon.

Jim

--- Merelice <merelice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Would appreciate it if the following would be shared
> with AdCom since
> I am responding to some AdCom communications that
> relate to
> fundraising. (Wendy, Have you joined this
> fundraising list yet? If so,
> you should receive this twice.)
> 
> Brian answered Lisa's questions about some of his
> fundraising
> activities. One thought that I have about her
> suggestion to send
> married people (in this case, Laura and Richard
> Cranford) one mailing:
> If my memory serves right, they each made their own
> contributions.
> When I was married and did something as an
> individual, I did not
> appreciate being treated as part of a couple rather
> than as myself. If
> a contribution is jointly made, that might be a
> different story.
> Otherwise, we can afford the separate stamp and
> envelope to respect
> the individuality of our members. It's always
> possible that one of
> them might want to contribute again and the other
> one might not.
> 
> I noticed in the AdCom minutes the reference to the
> fact that
> committees must keep AdCom informed. I couldn't
> agree more!! What I
> did not see is whether there was any discussion
> about ways to
> facilitate better communication. You might recall
> that several months
> ago, when it was decided that my emails to AdCom
> would not be put
> through (even though it was AdCom business), that I
> begged for a
> liaison to AdCom. Only in the last week or two have
> I learned that
> Wendy is now the fundraising committee's liaison.
> But we are still
> trying to work out how to make this work efficiently
> and in a timely
> way. Further, AdCom should post something on the
> fundraising list (and
> other committee lists in a similar position) so that
> ANYONE who works
> on fundraising (Jamie, Brian, me, Dan, etc.) has
> some guidance about
> how best to get to AdCom. The fact remains that
> AdCom is not that
> accessible. Also, if I were not still receiving
> AdCom postings, I
> would not learn about AdCom decisions and desires
> (and sometimes even
> actions) that might affect the things I am doing.
> Communications need
> to flow in both directions, from AdCom to committees
> as well as
> committees to AdCom.
> 
> [The rest of this email is not about fundraising but
> relates to AdCom business.]
> I appreciate the fact that AdCom wants to be
> conscientious in
> fulfilling its responsibilities. At the same time, I
> recognize that
> AdCom is not at full strength and seems to have more
> than it can
> handle. I'm not sure where or how to draw the line,
> but it might be
> necessary to delegate and trust working committees
> to carry out their
> functions. It's not always easy to strike a balance
> between abandoning
> and controlling but it might be a helpful discussion
> for AdCom to
> have.
> 
> Finally, I am concerned about Owen. He was on my
> Expcom list of people
> to call. I have tried to be in touch both by phone
> and by email. I
> called Jim Bosman to ask whether he had any
> information about him.
> This lack of response is totally out of character
> for Owen. One of the
> people he was to call about the county conventions
> was Sue Bartone. I
> talked with her recently and would be willing to be
> back in touch with
> her if that would help.
> Merelice
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