Fundraising this week/ Request for Information

—–Original Message—–

Hello Everyone,

I'm taking a few moments away from the campaign to write to you because I

understand that no fundraising was done again this week.  Last week I traveled

up to Morristown to meet with you all, because I understood that you were

anxious about fundraising.

I'm not the fund-raiser for the group, I'm just the unpaid executive director,

but I took the time to write a fundraising letter and develop a plan for raising

money.  The plan was suggested to me by the former director of the National

Constitution Center in Philadelphia.  It's what they did to kick-off their

fundraising many years ago, and it worked well for that non-profit.

The plan consists of small bites -- 250 membership request letters at a time,

with a follow-up big-dollar solicitation call.  I brought GOP State Committeeman

Rob Eichmann on to do those calls, because he will know many of those solicited

and they will know him through Steve Lonegan (Rob ran on Lonegan's ticket) and

because Rob has been the most outspoken conservative on the State Committee.

More than a week after the meeting, the plan remains unexecuted.  There were a

great many problems that some of you had with the letter I drafted, but

certainly those edits could have been made by now.  In fact, many new letters

could have been written from scratch during the more than seven days that have

passed.

Another alternative suggested by my friend from the National Constitution

Center, was to ask the board of directors for contributions, to jump start the

effort.  If we are not going to send out the letters, perhaps we should consider

expanding the board and asking members to contribute between $500 and $1,000

each?  This is a basic development tool used by many non-profits.

Finally, I looked through my items from our meeting Thursday night, but could

not find a copy of the Treasurer's report.  John Ginty read from some report or

balance sheet -- but I never got a copy of it.  I've been told that it is usual

and customary for a non-profit to issue such a report at each of its board

meetings.  I'm the executive director, but I have no idea on what we have spent

money or even what our current account looks like.  Could the Treasurer or legal

counsel send around the Treasurer's report?

Thank you.

-- Bill

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