LINGUIST List Special Issue: Fund Drive Advisers' Challenge

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LINGUIST List Special Issue: Fund Drive Advisers' Challenge

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	 Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison
	 Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
	 Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison  
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-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:00:01
From:  linguist [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: The Advisers' Challenge is Underway!

Dear Colleagues,

So what do members of the Advisory Board do to deserve 
having our names on the website?  Some of it is obvious 
by the nature of such groups.  We advise Anthony, Helen, 
and the LinguistList crew when they need guidance.  They 
consult us about new directions for LL, not just the 
listserve, but also the many data bases they build and 
maintain and the other services they perform for our 
discipline.  They turn to us as well if there are business 
matters to resolve; how much to charge, if at all, for 
various kinds of listings, for example.  And of course we 
help out with the annual fund-raiser; why else would you 
hear from this specific group of colleagues annually asking 
for your support?  But there is more - consider the very 
wonderful song available on the LL site, written by 
advisors Susan Fisher and Terry Langendoen.  And of course 
we also contribute.

The contributions take me to the point of this letter.  
There are about 35 of us and LL has, as of the date of this 
letter, received donations of approximately $59,000.  As I 
point out every year, there are some 26,000 of you, not a 
thousand times the number of Advisors but right around 750 
times.  What I am going to propose is extremely modest, then.  
As of now we need some $7,500 to meet the goals of the fund 
drive.  We challenge you to match our pledge and exceed it 
by a multiple of 2 (not, I repeat, a multiple of 750).  If 
this can be accomplished in the next 2 days, LL will meet 
its goal of $67,000 and we can all be assured that it will 
continue to serve as, as it does extraordinarily well, for 
the next year.

So, consider the very modest goal of a multiple of 2 and 
donate to LinguistLIst!!

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


Many thanks,
Margaret Winters