SignWriting Funding can be shared in the US...

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 7, 2004

Dear SW List Members -
I have had several List members from outside the US, ask to receive
donations from the givecars program. That is my fault that I did not
make this clear enough...in the title of this message I mention the US.
The funding is only for cars donated here in the United States, since
they cannot pick up donated cars in other countries...so this is a
funding situation for the US SignWriting users.

I am happy to tell you that I will be able to give $200 to two worthy
causes in the US, from the car-donation funding...Stuart Thiessen and
Phillipe Galant's Deaf Pass It On Services in Des Moines, Iowa and the
PUDL site, programmed by Stephen Slevinski, in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. They both have placed links on their sites to the
givecars program:

Deaf Pass It On Services
http://www.passitonservices.org/

PUDL Pittsburg For Deaf Literacy
http://www.pudl.info/donate.php

And it leaves a little for our SignWriting Literacy Project here in La
Jolla. We will pray that more people in the US will want to donate
their cars to help us!

Meanwhile, I hope there are similar funding programs in other countries
- It would be soo great to have an international funded project
someday!

Val ;-)

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Valerie Sutton wrote:

> SignWriting List
> June 6, 2004
>
> Dear SW List Members!
> Usually we get our funding from writing grants to foundations, so
> receiving funds from car donations is unusual for us. But what a
> blessing it has been! I never would have thought that a person would
> donate an old car, and that in turn, could help us...But that idea has
> become popular here in the US now...a new trend...and it has helped
> many non-profit organizations throughout the United States.
>
> I am writing to ask a favor...The group that donated the money to us,
> the National Police and Lay Charities, needs to place many links on
> the internet, with hopes that more people will want to donate cars to
> them, so they can in turn donate more to us...
>
> So I have been very busy placing links to their donate page:
>
> http://www.givecars.com
>
> on several of our web pages on SignWriting.org, SignBank.org, and
> MovementWriting.org...For example:
>
> http://www.SignWriting.org/forums/sponsors
>
> I am writing to ask a favor of other webmasters....  Would you be
> willing to place the links on your web pages too? If your web site is
> about SignWriting, then I would be happy to share the funding with
> you...
>
> That way our SignWriting team can all benefit and help each other...
>
> Please write to me privately about this, if you are interested...Many
> thanks!
>
> Val ;-)
> Sutton at SignWriting.org
>