[Bookstoprisoners] Alternative Gifts?

[Barbara kessel]

Great bunch of ideas, Deb on the alternative gifting. Thanks Suzanne
for the heads up. I certainly would like to do the cards again and to
help out in other ways,...but  just not in the next two weeks while i
am getting the housing all together for the conference and preparing
for the weekend of Terry Davis, a volunteer investigator for the
Mychal Bell case) speaking about Jena, LA.


If we could agree to co-sponsor the Unity March on October 13 (for
$25) 12 - 3,  I would carry a Books to Prisoners sign in the last mile
of the Unity March and we could get our name on the publicity and I
would mention us at the Appreciation Dinner at the Girls and Boys Club
in North Champaign where Terry Davis (from Chicago) will be speaking
briefly about Jena, La. This is a neighborhood where we could use more
visibility!

Barbara

On 10/1/07, Sand and Sea Sells Used Books Etc.
<sandncsells at ameritech.net> wrote:
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> The United Way is a good thing.  I'd get the info in and personally, I think
> we should do the Alternative Gifting.  Compared to the book sale it is a
> piece-of-cake fundraising.  If Barbara would write the cards (her
> handwriting is sooo beautiful) I would be willing to track and record/update
> to our donor list.  The only thing left is to get the emails to all the
> lists(including IMC) and a letter to our previous donors. I think we stll
> have quite a few cards left from last year. They are in the file cabinet and
> I can count them later this week. My feeling is that we need to do an
> earlier PUSH, via email lists, snail mail, and maybe some PSA'a and radio
> spots again to advertise. Our emails should go out the week before
> Thanksgiving at the latest.
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> BTW- If we get the conference information to Lori Serb at WEFT we may be
> able to get an hour or so during one of her shows to talk about the upcoming
> conference and B2P.  We discussed it after the last show and she was very
> receptive. We could also bring up the Alternative Gifting.  Suzanne, would
> you and/or Jay be willing to go on the air with one other person?
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> Deb
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> Deb Sanderson
> Owner/Buyer
> Sand and Sea Sells Used Books Etc.
> www.sandncsells.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Suzanne Linder
> To: BTP
> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 7:47 PM
> Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] Alternative Gifts?
>
> Hello BTPers--
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> I know it seems early to be thinking about this, but how are folks planning
> on doing our alternative gift fund raiser again this year?  The United Way
> is publishing a Holiday brochure of volunteer opportunities and now is the
> time to get our information in.  If we do decide to do the alternative gifts
> again, this will be an excellent place to advertise it.  We were in the
> summer brochure and that is how our newest volunteer, Scott, found us.
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> Thoughts?  I need to submit information for the brochure by the end of the
> week.
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> Suzanne
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