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Indybay Urgently Needs Your Financial Support Now
INDYBAY NEEDS TO RAISE $5000 in order to continue operating.
Indybay has expenses that amount to several hundred dollars every month for hosting this website. Indybay also has other smaller expenses that relate to outreach and having a mailbox. It's been over a year since Indybay last had a fundraising drive and now we need to ask for donations again to cover our costs into the foreseeable future. We'll be happy to end this drive as soon as we reach our goal. Please donate now so we can end it soon.
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I could volunteer to help raise money-- just need to know how.
... than a dancing Cheney or some other such annoying gif. I am much more motivated to give with this icon (seriously.) Thank you for getting the word out.
Solidarity Sis.
Solidarity Sis.
We are open to all sorts of ideas, and appreciate help from wherever it comes.
Contact us at sfbay [at] lists.indymedia.org and let us know what you might be thinking.
Contact us at sfbay [at] lists.indymedia.org and let us know what you might be thinking.
I just helped another group raise $9,000 last month (mostly via online messages), and one thing that we made sure to do was to give our "target audience" regular updates about how we were doing with meeting our goal. We initially tried to raise the entire $9,000 within just one week, so we therefore gave daily updates. At the end of the week, we were a bit over halfway there, so we then came up with a "Plan B", publicized that, and continued to give daily updates. The result was that we were able to raise the full $9,000 before the end of the 2nd week.
I have no idea by what date you want to raise the $5,000, but I strongly recommend that you update the "bar graph" regularly, and that you also update your fundraising message at least every 7 to 10 days. (And maybe every 5 days or so if you want to raise all of the money within less than a month!).
For the record, the current "bar graph" now shows $210 on the evening of Tuesday, March 11 (and I think it's been at least 3 or more days since the graph has shown any movement!)....
I have no idea by what date you want to raise the $5,000, but I strongly recommend that you update the "bar graph" regularly, and that you also update your fundraising message at least every 7 to 10 days. (And maybe every 5 days or so if you want to raise all of the money within less than a month!).
For the record, the current "bar graph" now shows $210 on the evening of Tuesday, March 11 (and I think it's been at least 3 or more days since the graph has shown any movement!)....
The graph is updated every 5 minutes, although you may need to click reload to force your browser to actually update. We make heavy use of Expires and Cache-Control HTTP headers to keep our bandwidth costs down ;)
I'm new to the North Coast area in Mendocino County, but I'm a devoted Indybay member-how about a North Coast fundraiser? I'm happy to help in anyway. I've helped organize benefits for indybay in the past. But I'm not plugged into the Indybay users/community up here. I'm happy to help!
My email is:
crustychristina [at] hotmail.com
My email is:
crustychristina [at] hotmail.com
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