23.1078, LINGUIST needs your Support!

Sat Mar 3 17:36:37 UTC 2012

LINGUIST List: Vol-23-1078. Sat Mar 03 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 23.1078, LINGUIST needs your Support!

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison
       <reviews at linguistlist.org>

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

The LINGUIST List is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing the
discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in
the digital world. Donate to keep our services freely available!
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Editor for this issue: Matthew Lahrman <matt at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:36:04
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: A letter from Financial Editor Junko Spiteri

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-1078.html&submissionid=4541887&topicid=121&msgnumber=1

Dear LINGUIST List Subscriber,

My name is Junko Spiteri and I am a student originally from Japan. I am a graduate student and work as a financial editor at The LINGUIST List. I started to work as a financial editor in September 2011.

I got my undergraduate degree in English Linguistics in Eastern Michigan University back in 2001, but started working as an accounting administrator in a Japanese company. When my daughter was born in 2008, I decided to leave the company just to focus on raising my child. After she turned to 3 years old and started her preschool, I decided to go back to school so that I could increase my professional knowledge and skills. 

I was so lucky to be accepted by Linguist List as a financial editor where my educational background and work experience can be optimized the most. The working experience here offers me a lot of opportunities to relearn about linguistics as well as acquiring professional accounting skills.

I work as a financial editor in Linguist List to assist the organization to plan and control its financial resources effectively and to keep accurate financial records.

As a non-profit research institute, The LINGUIST List relies on your financial support via donations to continue its operation. Without your generous support, The LINGUIST List as you know it today would cease to exist, because the organization would not be able to employ the graduate students who process your submissions, maintain the databases and web pages as well as provide other useful services to the global linguistic community. As an accounting major I know that if these services were to be provided at a cost, very few linguists would be able to afford them.

To help keep organization alive to continue providing its invaluable services, please donate again to this years fund drive at:
http://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

I would like to use this opportunity to thank you for supporting The LINGUIST List. I hope you will continue to support the organization so that future LINGUIST List editors will have the opportunity to learn while at the same time providing high quality service to you.

You can donation $5, $10, $15, $20, $30 or more at:
http://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Very sincere thanks for your donations.

Sincerely,

Junko Spiteri

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This Year the LINGUIST List hopes to raise $67,000. This money will go to help 
keep the List running by supporting all of our Student Editors for the coming
year.

See below for donation instructions, and don't forget to check out Fund 
Drive 2012 site!

http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2012/

There are many ways to donate to LINGUIST!

You can donate right now using our secure credit card form at  
https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm

Alternatively you can also pledge right now and pay later. To do so, go to: 
https://linguistlist.org/donation/pledge/pledge1.cfm

For all information on donating and pledging, including information on how to 
donate by check, money order, or wire transfer, please visit: 
http://linguistlist.org/donation/

The LINGUIST List is under the umbrella of Eastern Michigan University and as 
such can receive donations through the EMU Foundation, which is a registered 
501(c) Non Profit organization. Our Federal Tax number is 38-6005986. These 
donations can be offset against your federal and sometimes your state tax
return (U.S. tax payers only). For more information visit the IRS Web-Site,
or contact your financial advisor.

Many companies also offer a gift matching program, such that they will match 
any gift you make to a non-profit organization. Normally this entails your 
contacting your human resources department and sending us a form that the 
EMU Foundation fills in and returns to your employer. This is generally a
simple administrative procedure that doubles the value of your gift to
LINGUIST, without costing you an extra penny. Please take a moment to check if
your company operates such a program.

Thank you very much for your support of LINGUIST!

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-23-1078	
----------------------------------------------------------