[LPL Board of Directors] Monthly pledge letter and calling

[Franklin Griffin]

Unless someone can come up with reasons to the contrary, I have no problems with this.  In fact, I applaud the effort.
 
Frank

--- On Sun, 2/24/13, treasurer at lplouisiana.org <treasurer at lplouisiana.org> wrote:


From: treasurer at lplouisiana.org <treasurer at lplouisiana.org>
Subject: Re: [LPL Board of Directors] Monthly pledge letter and calling
To: "Mailing list for LPL Board of Directors" <scc at lplouisiana.org>
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2013, 6:08 PM


I just sent out fund-raising letters so I would wait until late March. I
love this idea though.

> I have a proposal that I would like feedback from the committee on
> before I decide to go forward or not.
>
> I'd like to personally write a short fundraising letter asking people to
> sign up for a monthly pledge to the LP Louisiana. The letter would
> primarily talk about how we have hired an executive director and that is
> critical for getting the LP Louisiana more organized.
>
> I would personally write and design the letter and the contribution form
> and print and mail them to about 150 contacts in Louisiana.  I would
> then follow up a few days later with phone calls and would ask a couple
> people to help me with the phone calls.
>
> I've personally written lots of fundraising letters in the past for the
> LP Texas and the national LP.  I got the monthly pledge up in Texas from
> a few hundred per month to over $4,300 per month at one point in 2008,
> and got the national LP from about $20,000 to $34,000 per month from
> 2009 to 2011.
>
> The design of the contribution form is critical to getting people to
> willingly sign up for a monthly pledge. Perhaps I'll design the form so
> it can easily be used by volunteers for other purposes as well.
>
> Since Louisiana is much smaller than Texas, I'm mainly hoping to get our
> monthly pledge to about $500 per month in the next couple of months, and
> $1,000 per month by the end of the year.
>
> I signed up for a $30 per month pledge myself yesterday here:
> https://secure.piryx.com/donate/3rejnkrb/Libertarian-Party-of-Louisiana/MonthlyPledge
>
> This is about all I can handle before the next state committee meeting.
>
> A reliable monthly pledge would help our state party a lot, but the
> effort also usually generates significant one-time donations as well.  I
> realize Reed Ebarb has been sending fundraising letters and I think he
> should continue that. I just want the one I send to be spaced 3 to 4
> weeks apart from the ones he sends.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> --Wes Benedict
> Finance Officer
> 512-659-8896
>
>
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