[Bookstoprisoners] Book sale update

[jamie storm]

add $25 from 3 donors at the AWARE meeting tonight


>From: "Sandra Ahten" <sandra.ahten at gmail.com>
>To: BTP <bookstoprisoners at lists.chambana.net>
>Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] Book sale update
>Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:16:17 -0600
>
>Well, we are winding down. We made $1980 between the booksale and Romp 
>Stomp
>Slam Jam. We will have the give-away "by donation" tomorrow.... so we could
>make a little more. This amount has deducted from it: $80 for food and copy
>expense for RSSJ, $87 for IMC, and about $120 for laminate signs (that we
>will re-use). It also has deducted from it the 10% ($219) that we agreed to
>pay for the booksale coordinator.
>
>As the booksale coordinator, I am however donating that amount back to the
>BtP with the hopes that it will be used to help fund the BtP Volunteer
>Coordinator position. So that bring the total to $2199.
>
>
>Workers today decided that the responsible and logical thing to do with the
>remaining books is to save the leftovers for a future sale. There are just
>too many high quality books to re-cycle. We discussed donating them to
>various organizations, but decided that, it made more sense to just keep
>them as seed for the next sale. Now that the sale is at the IMC and is more
>of a fine tuned machine (smile) we might be able to have them more often.
>
>Lincoln's Challenge will be there tomorrow at noon to start packing books.
>They will need supervision to get them neatly packed and the boxes labeled.
>If you can help, please come by. Deb, Jane and I will be there. Susan and
>Jamie are working the give-away from 8-noon.
>
>I am still convinced that we (more than ever) need a BtP Volunteer
>Coordinator. I probably have about 8-10 hours worth of book-keeping work to
>do to get reports to you that will show our accounting ... so that we can
>make a decision on it. But I would like to ask that you be thinking about
>this approach....
>
>If we could find 12 people to donate $100 each toward the $1200 needed to
>hire someone for 3 months, we could just get moving on this. I am willing 
>to
>donate $100 and find one or two others. Would you do the same?
>
>I would also like to have there be a job of "coordinator" or "director" be
>spelled out and defined.I am, very possibly, willing to be that person on a
>volunteer basis. I would like to have the BtP Volunteer Coordinator report
>to the Director (whether it be me or someone else). I am however unwilling
>to keep working sort-of-as-the-acting-director. I  alway feel like I need 
>to
>get permission/consensus on everything....or else feel guilty becuase I
>don't. This is not effecient and is uncomfortable for me. So we are going 
>to
>need to formalize this arrangement.
>
>
>Peace,
>
>Sandra


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