<html>Food for thought:<br><br>On "Individual Donations", the following was taken from https://www.groundspring.org/learningcenter/groundspring-handbook.pdf<br><br>While Surfrider didn?t<br>keep detailed stats on their online fundraising;<br>at the time of this writing, as of spring 2001,<br>over 5,300 members had signed up or renewed<br>online. At the minimum $25 gift level, that?s<br>$132,500, although a few donations have come<br>in at the $1,000 lifetime membership level! The<br>site is Surfrider?s #1 source of memberships ? and<br>memberships are the #1 source of revenue for<br>Surfrider.<br>
<br>With a goal of $200,000 thrown out for good measure, is this an area we are short changing?<br><br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com]<br>
Sent: Monday, May 8, 2006 10:33 AM<br>
To: fundraising@fundraising.osgeo.org<br>
Subject: [Fundraising] Initial Meeting <br>
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Folks,<br>
<br>
Our initial meeting of the Fundraising Committee will be tomorrow, May 9th<br>
at 1600UTC (noon EST, 9am PST). We will meet in IRC. Our initial agenda is<br>
at:<br>
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/FunComMeeting1<br>
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I am a bit concerned about how to give our discussions some structure so we<br>
can accomplish stuff. I would encourage folks to review the existing<br>
sponsorship documents at:<br>
<br>
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Sponsorship<br>
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and write up fairly specific suggestions for changes, additions and so forth<br>
to this email list in advance. It is very hard to do deep thinking in the<br>
context of a meeting, so we all need to do some homework in advance.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
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light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam<br>
and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGF, http://osgeo.org<br>
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