[Cash-and-caring] gathering info to make Cash and Caring Committee best resource for affiliates

[Ramona Walhof]

Dear State Presidents:

Please respond by sending an email to me at ramona.walhof at gmail.com.  Please 
number your responses so that it is not necessary to copy questions.  If you 
have no response to some questions, skip them; just be sure to number those 
you respond to.  Thank you very much.

1. Is the material in the Toolkit helpful?  What can you do with it?

2.  What would you like to have that is not now included?

3.  Does your affiliate or any of your chapters now conduct an event that 
raises5000 dollars or more?  If so, please provide a short description.

4.  Would you like to have someone from another state who has experience 
raising funds available as a consultant?  We understand that this advice is 
free and does not have to be taken.

5.  Would you like to meet with others regarding affiliate fundraising at 
national conventions or Washington seminars or send someone from your state 
to do so?

6.   Please assign someone from your state to work with this Committee with 
a goal of building a new event or improving an existing one.  Please provide 
that person's name, email address, and phone number.

7.  Do any of your chapters or the state affiliate currently combine 
fundraising with Meet-the-Blind Month activities?  Would you like to 
participate in discussion about doing this?

8.  Does your affiliate or any of your chapters do a walk-a-thon, 
bike-a-thon,or a similar event? If so, who leads it?  Do you think we should 
try to coordinate events of this type?

9.  Would you prefer to communicate on the cash-and-caring list? on 
facebook? through the state affiliate leadership list? or some other way? 
If other, please specify.

10.  Do you have other general comments or suggestions regarding fundraising 
for the Cash and Caring Committee or to share with other affiliates or 
divisions?

If the person answering these questions is not a state President, please 
include your name and email address.

We appreciate your help.  Together, we can move toward a multi-facited 
funding system which will benefit all of us.

Cash and Caring Committee
Ramona Walhof, Chair