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<div>The pile of mail and emails asking for a generous donation does pick up more at this time of year. </div>
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<div>If peace is our priority issue, then the peace groups, like just foreign policy, should float to the top. </div>
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<div>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Advice requested </div>
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<div>I would assume that many people here are having the same experience. </div>
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<div>As someone who has responsibility for fundraising for a non-profit - Just Foreign Policy - I can tell you that there is an expectation that one will send "end of year fundraising appeals." We've sent one of them every day since the twenty-fourth,
some of them more fundraise-y than others. I try to include new information with each one, so that the interaction isn't wasted, even if it doesn't result in a donation.</div>
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<div>Looking at it from the side of the potential donor, nobody has infinite resources, everyone has to prioritize. </div>
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<div>I think that if you're a peace person, you should take into account the fact that the peace movement in the U.S. is woefully underfunded, compared to other things. Other people are going to give money to Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, NPR, etc.
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<div>[I say this as someone who donates money to WILL-AM, about which I feel somewhat conflicted, given that that means indirectly subsidizing NPR, which often annoyingly promotes the Pentagon line; but I much prefer the media landscape with NPR in
it to the media landscape in its absence, and I listen to it all the time, though it grates, so I donate to it modestly, to do my part to keep it alive.]</div>
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<div>So I think that everyone here who is going to donate something to somebody should, first of all, donate to the peace organization[s] of their choice. </div>
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<div>Obviously, I'm happy whenever anyone donates to Just Foreign Policy [<a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/donate" target="_blank">http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/donate</a>], but putting that to the side, here are some other recommendations:</div>
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<div>Two other organizations that are not peace movement per se but are extremely helpful to the peace movement on the media front are FAIR and the Institute for Public Accuracy. When I give to FAIR and IPA, I feel like I'm "offsetting" my donation
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Help! Am I their savior? </div>
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Here are a few of the things I have been called upon to SAVE (by signing an online petition, or more to the point, by sending money) in the past few days:</div>
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Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Canyon, National Public Radio, public libraries, African wildlife, wolves, & at least two dozen political candidates & various do-good organizations and causes of various stripes.</div>
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