[Peace-discuss] Advice requested

[Robert Naiman]

I forgot to answer part of Ron's question. He asked us to say that we
ourselves are donating. I mentioned that I donate to WILL-AM, FAIR, and
IPA. [Also I donate to Truthout.] But I did not say that I donate to Just
Foreign Policy. Here's how I do that.

First of all, I haven't had a raise in years, even though I could have. I
didn't ask for a raise, because I didn't need the money, and I wanted Just
Foreign Policy to have the money, to do other Just Foreign Policy things
besides pay my salary. Part of why I don't need the money is because I live
in Champaign-Urbana, where the cost of living is relatively low by U.S.
standards, instead of living in Washington.

Second, I voluntarily reduce my salary by not turning in receipts when I
travel to do Just Foreign Policy things. For example, I traveled to Chicago
a few weeks ago for Just Foreign Policy. I paid for my own train tickets
and did not turn in receipts. Again, I do this so that Just Foreign Policy
will have more money to do other Just Foreign Policy things besides pay my
salary.

Third, I work for Just Foreign Policy far more than forty hours a week.
Nobody is making me do that. I'm doing that as a volunteer. I decided a
long time ago that my marginal impact on the world would be far greater
donating most of my volunteer time to Just Foreign Policy than donating it
to something else.

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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 6:14 PM kmedina67 via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

>  Amen Bob.
>
> The pile of mail and emails asking for a generous donation does pick up
> more at this time of year.
>
> If peace is our priority issue, then the peace groups, like just foreign
> policy, should float to the top.
>
> - Karen Medina
> "The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great" - Mark
> Twain
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Date: 12/29/18 14:15 (GMT-06:00)
> To: "Szoke, Ron" <r-szoke at illinois.edu>
> Cc: Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Advice requested
>
>
> 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. :)
>
> ===
>
> 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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