LINGUIST List Special Issue: Fund Drive

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LINGUIST List Special Issue: Fund Drive 

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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:41:20
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Help Us Fund Our Editors!

Dear LINGUIST List Subscribers,

I would like to begin by thanking you for all of the donations and support
you have provided us during this fund-drive season. With your help and
dedication we have raised quite a bit of our goal, but we still have a
ways to go. More specifically we need to still raise $961 with only 1
hour to go in our advisor's challenge, in order to stay on track with
fund-drive.

I know that many of you are students, who may think that you have nothing
that you can donate to LINGUIST List, but really, any amount helps.
Whether it's $5, $20, or $100 (or $961), we need all of you to chip in
to make this fund-drive a success.

As you may already know, LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization, which
runs based on your donations. Without these donations there is no way that
we could continue providing services unparalleled in any other discipline:
our job, book, conference, and journal call announcements help bring
together and keep up to date members of the discipline, and surely have
helped develop many of your careers in linguistics.

The choice is yours to make. LINGUIST List really cannot continue without
your donations, so if you would like the linguistics community to have
this great resource that we developed and continue to grow for you, our
subscribers, then please donate now.

Donate: https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Best Wishes,

Fatemeh Abdollahi
Student Editor, LINGUIST List


-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:45:26
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: A Call to All Brits!

Come on Brits - if you hate these fund drives as much 
as we do, just put us all out of our misery - and fast!!! 

We're leaving it all to the Americans and Germans, and that's 
just not fair.

Donate:
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Dick Hudson

Prof Richard Hudson, FBA
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/dick/home.htm 



-------------------------Message 3 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:49:54
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: We Need Your Help!

Dear LINGUIST List subscribers,

Back in January of 2009 I applied for The LINGUIST List 
summer internship. I figured it was a long shot, but I 
went for it anyways. To my surprise, I actually got an 
interview and was asked "Do you know what we do here at 
The LINGUIST List?" My response was something like, "Well, 
I know you have a large mailing list." Helen and Tony 
kindly informed me that, "Yes, this is true, but we also 
do so much more here." They explained how they maintain 
The LINGUIST website and that they have a few grant projects.

Even when they told me all of this, I still didn't 
understand the scope of the work that is done here at 
The LINGUIST List until I arrived in Michigan last summer 
for my internship. Each student carefully edits one or 
even a couple of editing areas of the Listserv, edits 
and updates some part of The LINGUIST List site, such 
as our directory of linguists and institutions, and on 
top of all of that works on at least one grant project, 
perhaps even two. It's a fast paced environment, but it 
forces you to adapt and learn quickly.

And none of us could be here if it weren't for the donations 
from our generous subscribers. This year is no different and 
I know that many of you have already donated, perhaps 
multiple times, and that these are hard times. LINGUIST List 
is also affected by this down economy, so unfortunately we 
have to ask you, our subscribers, for support. We appreciate 
every dollar that comes in, so even if you could just give 
$5 or $10, every student at LINGUIST including myself would 
be grateful.

https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Before working at LINGUIST, it was not apparent to me how 
much the students do here for the linguistics community. 
And I think if we couldn't continue to maintain this service, 
this community would realize how much of a service we 
provided once it was gone. Please don't let this happen. 
If you donate, you will help keep us here and working hard 
for all of you!

Sincerely,

Danielle St. Jean
Student Editor
LINGUIST List

PS - Please donate, every little bit helps! 
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm