16.886, Alert: Only $9000 raised after week one!

Wed Mar 23 18:37:25 UTC 2005

LINGUIST List: Vol-16-886. Wed Mar 23 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.886, Alert: Only $9000 raised after week one!

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1)
Date: 23-Mar-2005
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Only $9000 raised after week one!

2)
Date: 23-Mar-2005
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: How to donate...

3)
Date: 23-Mar-2005
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Merci! Danke! Dhanyawad! Chin'an! Obrigado! Grazie! Gracias! Arigato!

-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:34:55
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Only $9000 raised after week one!

Dear Subscribers,

The first week of Fund Drive 2005 came to an end yesterday, and we were
astounded to find that we had collected only $9000.  This means that we are
significantly behind last year's fund drive, and the crew is absolutely
mystified as to how this can be.

Following suggestions given to us by our readers regarding past fund drive
tactics, we have decided to make Fund Drive 2005 truly fun.  We have not hounded
subscribers with poverty-stricken emails, we have not put incessant pop-ups on
the website, and we haven't even made our home page disappear. Instead, we have
devised "fun" projects in the hopes that subscribers would give just as much --
if not more -- if there were no annoyance involved.

Unfortunately, the numbers suggest an entirely different outcome.  As we have
decided to end Fund Drive after four weeks this year, we have only three weeks
to collect the remaining $41000.  Therefore, the LINGUIST List will be stepping
up the campaign in an attempt to get the remaining funds. We will continue with
the "fun" part of FUNd drive, but it will definitely be interspersed with
"better fund raising tactics" so that our subscribers remember that amusement --
as well as all LINGUIST List services -- comes at a significant operational cost.

Please, please donate to LINGUIST List, if only to deliver yourself from fund
raising tactics.  But, more importantly, please donate to LINGUIST List because
it provides an essential service to the discipline and for linguists worldwide.

Sincerely,

-Helen

-------------------------Message 2 ----------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:34:58
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: How to donate...

This Year the LINGUIST List hope to raise $48,867. This money will go to help
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-------------------------Message 3 ----------------------------------
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:35:00
From:  linguist < linguist at linguistlist.org >
Subject: Merci! Danke! Dhanyawad! Chin'an! Obrigado! Grazie! Gracias! Arigato!

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