[Bookstoprisoners] Alternative Gifts?

[Suzanne Linder]

$25 to sponsor the Unity March is fine with me.

I don't think anything needs to be done on the Alternative Gifts until after
the conference is done.  I just wanted to make sure people were planning on
doing it before I put it in the United Way brochure.

Suzanne

On 10/2/07, Barbara kessel <barkes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > Deb
> >
> >
> > Deb Sanderson
> > Owner/Buyer
> > Sand and Sea Sells Used Books Etc.
> > www.sandncsells.com
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Suzanne Linder
> > To: BTP
> > Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 7:47 PM
> > Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] Alternative Gifts?
> >
> > Hello BTPers--
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Thoughts?  I need to submit information for the brochure by the end of
> the
> > week.
> >
> > Suzanne
> >
> >
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