[fundraising] NC Proposal on State Sharing Programs, ID 277

[Yarden]

What improvements or changes, if any, should be made in the proposal 
that is currently under discussion in the National Committee?  Your 
assistance is needed.
Elie Yarden
Cambridge

ID 277
Proposal
PROPOSAL TO REDEFINE AND EXPAND STATE SHARING PROGRAMS
Presenter
GPUS Finance and Fundraising Committees
Floor Manager
Budd Dickinson
Phase
Discussion
Discussion
04/03/2007 - 04/16/2007
Voting
04/17/2007 - 04/24/2007

Presens Quorum
0.6666

Consens Quorum
0.6666 of Yes and No Votes

Background
State sharing programs (SSPs) support both state Green Parties and GPUS 
and, as such, are a basic and important part of fundraising programs at 
both
state and national levels.   In order that the number and variety of 
SSPs
continue to expand, it is vital that both state Green Parties and GPUS 
are
appropriately compensated for fundraising efforts within these programs.

Our current SSPs do not differentiate between contributions that come in
through state efforts and that come in through national efforts.  In 
order
to encourage state participation in fundraising, and to make it 
financially
worthwhile for state parties, the Fundraising Committee is introducing a
series of state driven SSPs.

Along with an increasing menu of state driven SSPs, we are 
reconfiguring the
way state sharing is calculated. For contributions deriving from state
driven programs, the state's share will be 60%, instead of the current 
50%.
For contributions deriving from national efforts, the state share will 
be
40%.

The key to the success of this system will be identifying whether a 
donation
came in through state or national efforts. Our current donation tracking
system assigns a solicitation code for each contribution.  Identifying a
contribution as state driven or nationally driven will utilize this 
current
system for tracking solicitation codes.  The tracking codes become part 
of
the database records used by our accountant in calculating state 
sharing.

A description of programs follows, along with details on how 
contributions
from each program will be tracked.

STATE DRIVEN PROGRAMS

State Sustainer Program:
The national office will provide for states a customized donate page and
printable template for sustainer donations of $10 month or more per 
month
($120/year). The state party will be in charge of promoting the program
on-line, at meetings, mailings, events. The national office will handle
credit card or check processing, data entry, thank you letter, green 
pages
subscription, and lapel pin.  A unique tracking code will be assigned 
for
both the web donation and the printable template indicating that it is a
state driven program.

State Driven One Time Contributions:
Details same as state sustainer program, except that the donor signs up 
for
a one time donation, again with a minimum of $10.  As above, a unique
tracking code will be assigned for state drive one-time contributions.

Green Party Card:
The national office provides for states a customized Green Party card 
page
and printable template for Green Party signups ($36 or more).  The state
party will be in charge of promoting the program on-line, at meetings,
mailings, events. The national office will handle credit card or check
processing, data entry , thank you letter and GPC packet.  As above, a
unique tracking code will be assigned for state driven Green Party Card
on-line transactions.   If a state party chooses to use the printed
applications available at the office, they will need to write the code 
SD
(state driven) on the bottom of the card and make sure the state sharing
option is checked.

GPUS DRIVEN PROGRAMS

Nationally driven programs will be handled as they are now. State 
sharing
will be an option on all direct mail, web, sustainer and GPC 
solicitations.
The only change will be that the GPUS driven Green Party Card 
solicitations
will now make state sharing optional rather than automatic.

Proposal
PROPOSAL

Beginning 1 April 2007, the first day of the 2nd quarter, State Sharing
Programs (SSPs) are defined as state driven and national driven.

State driven SSPs are defined as those in which contributions come in
through state efforts.  For contributions deriving from state driven
programs, the state's share will be 60% of gross.

National driven SSPs are defined as those in which contributions come in
through national efforts.  For contributions deriving from national 
driven
programs, the state's share will be 40% of gross.

For all SSPs, the tracking system will continue to assign the 
solicitation
code of the program to each contribution so that each contribution is
identified as being part or a state driven or national driven SSP.  The
tracking codes become part of the database records and are used by our
accountant in calculating state sharing.

The SSPs described in detail in the BACKGROUND above are examples of 
current and currently planned programs and are not meant as an 
exhaustive list of the possibilities for the SSP system.

Contacts:  Jody Grage jody at gp.org
Liz Arnone  larnone47 at yahoo.com

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