[fundraising] Re: [statecom-discuss] RE: The results of your email commands, fund raising idea

[Jamie O'Keefe]

[Please forward to statecom-discuss]

Grace would be the person to ask as to its success.  I believe that
there was success where folks followed through, but not many followed
through.

My guess is that we would get 1% of all registered voters, at best,
which would net 100 people.  In terms of fundraising, a better attempt
would be to call look at people who have given but not for over a year
and call them.  Brian had been doing this.

If you want to call people for something besides money, then I suggest
that the approach should be integrated with our current and future
plans.  Just cold calling people is good, but will be more effective
if we have a way to hook people in who want to get involved.

Jamie

On 11/27/06, Merelice <merelice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Would someone who was on AdCom at the time please fill John in on the
> phonebanking effort to GRP members that Grace coordinated at the
> beginning of this year (end of last year?)? This started out as part
> of the Exploratory Committee's work. Before we engage in another
> effort, John (and anyone interested) needs to know what has been done,
> what the results were, and what we need to proceed more effectively.
>
> As one who has participated in several phonebanking efforts, I know
> that there have been problems with getting good contact information (a
> must if we are not to continue generating a lot of frustration) and
> also following through with updating our databases when we do get
> better information.
>
> John, I think I've emailed you before that you might want to consult
> with both Jamie O'Keefe and Dan Melnechuk about your proposal since
> they manage our databases. Just throwing out the idea on a list
> probably won't generate as much support as you would like and one
> reason is that several of us have already tried this approach with
> marginal success.
>
> The most consistent results we have had fundraising is when a
> part-time paid fundraiser (8 hours a week) was engaged in monthly
> renewal mailings which he followed up with telephone calls.
> Merelice
>
> On 11/27/06, John Walsh <jvwalshmd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think a fundraising effort to retire whatever debts there are would be great.
> > Why not start to contact our 10,000 registered GRPers to do this (get
> > their emails while we are at it) and get their contribution, feedback
> > and get in touch.
> > I suggest we ask each of them for $20.  If we do that, we will have
> > $200,000 for 2008!!
> > Who would like to do this?
> > I think we need at least 10 people to get started.  Any takers?  I
> > guarantee it will be more fun than discussing very abstract, very
> > academic and (more often than not) very boring political philosophy.
> > (Excuse me on the last point.  It is just the rambling of a simple
> > mind that places very little trust in "words, words, words.")
> >
> > AGAIN WHO WOULD LIKE TO JOIN ME IN STARTING THIS STATEWIDE PHONE
> > CONVERSATION WITH THE GRASSROOTS WHO ARE SUPPORTING US?  WE COULD ASK
> > TO START A NEW COMMITTEE, THE "PHONE GRASSROOTS COMMITTEE."  I WOULD
> > BE HAPPY TO CHAIR IT IF THERE ARE EVEN A FEW TAKERS.  I WOULD ASK FOR
> > A COMMITMENT OF ONE EVENING EVERY WEEK OR TWO WEEKS.
> >
> > We would also find out how many of these 10,000 are on the other side
> > of the digital divide and arrange to get to them by other means.  Our
> > first goal in the fundraising would be to retire campaign debts where
> > the individual campaigns cannot do it themselves.  (By the way, the
> > very idea of individual campaigns is leading to more campaigns fueled
> > by individual wealth.  The average Jane and John need a party to raise
> > funds whereas a Deval Patrick or a John Kerry does not.)
> > jw
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James O'Keefe
Green-Rainbow Party nominee for Treasurer of the Commonwealth
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