[Peace-discuss] Advice requested

[Robert Naiman]

I would assume that many people here are having the same experience.

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.

Looking at it from the side of the potential donor, nobody has infinite
resources, everyone has to prioritize.

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. who are not going to give money to the peace
movement.

[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.]

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.

Obviously, I'm happy whenever anyone donates to Just Foreign Policy [
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/donate], but putting that to the side,
here are some other recommendations:

UFPJ
Peace Action
FCNL
AFSC

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 to NPR. :)

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Robert Reuel Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1

On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 2:47 PM Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Help!  Am I their savior?
> 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:
> 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.
> Unfortunately, I am not wealthy enough to be the savior of all of them,
> nor even probably of any of them.  Which one(s) should I choose?
> Note that, for your reply to have any credibility, you must tell me how
> much, in actual dollars, you personally contributed to each one in the past
> year, & not just tell me about your good intentions, noble motives &
> sky-high ideals.
> ~~ Ron Szoke
>
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