[bksvol-discuss] Re: the stripper
- From: Mike Pietruk <pietruk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:17:24 -0400 (EDT)
Sue
Anyone can send a donation to Benetech and BookShare
So, all you would need to do each year is cut a check for $50, stick it
in an addressed envelope with a stamp, and send it off to Palo Alto.
What Benetech needs are long-term fund-raising options,
not t-shirts, coffee mugs, and the like.
They need programs to encourage both well-to-do and not-so-well-to-do
folks to make bequests in their wills,
annuity style programs, donations of equipment, booksellers and/or
publishers donating material for scanning, and the like.
Want to see a successful operation, look at RFB&D and American Printing
House who are routinely benefactors of financial gifts and have
established endowment funds for specific purposes such as the Newsweek and
Readers Digest funds.
Hopefully, articles such as the one recently in the San Francisco
Chronicle can plant such seeds.
As
Bookshare is most visible in the Bay Area, these kinds of effort,
initially at least, will likely have to begin out there.
If you want to see the potential of BookShare, just look at what RFB&D has
been able to do as it has grown throughout the years:
recording studios across the country, thousands of volunteers, customers
and volunteers remembering RFB&D in their wills, and all the rest.
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