[nfbwatlk] : Fundraising

Fri Nov 1 01:26:16 UTC 2013

Mike M,

If we contacted all of our brothers, sisters, aunts, Uncles, cousins, ieces, nephews and those who have friends; overtime it could add up.

bob 

From: nfbwatlk [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Mello
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 11:05 AM
To: nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] : Fundraising

Mike et al,

NFB of Washington is already listed as part of the Amazon Smile program as are most if not all of the Affiliates of the National Federation of the Blind. If an organization meets the requirements and is in the guide star directory it is listed automaticly as part of the Amazon Smile program.

If we would like to receive the 0.5% per transaction, we would need to go in and activate our listing for free with our banking information.

Smile.amazon.com is not a spam host, and does not collect email addresses of your contacts. Smile.amazon.com is just the same as  <http://www.amazon.com/> www.amazon.com however 0.5% of each transaction is donated to the charity that the shopper selects first at smile.amazon.com

With all this said, 0.5% would be $5.00 for every $1000.00 spent in the grand scheme, it is really not all that much money.

-Mike

Mike Mello

mike at mello.com | 208-301-0565

Oct 31, 2013 10:19:23 AM, nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org wrote:
>All: 
>Just because other organizations do something doesn't make it morally right nor does it mean that the nfb of Washington should do it. People rob banks, too. Does this mean we should also rob banks? I think the goodwill of the public is worth a lot and there's no faster way to garner enmity than to do unwanted bulk email and spam people. 
>Additionally, there are other reasons not to take advantage of such offers, especially this one. Use your imagination and you'll figure it out. 
>Mike All: 
>Just because other organizations do something doesn't make it morally right nor does it mean that the nfb of Washington should do it. People rob banks, too. Does this mean we should also rob banks? I think the goodwill of the public is worth a lot and there's no faster way to garner enmity than to do unwanted bulk email and spam people. 
>Additionally, there are other reasons not to take advantage of such offers, especially this one. Use your imagination and you'll figure it out. 
>Mike 
>
>> On Oct 31, 2013, at 9:31, maurice mines <kd0iko at icloud.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Good morning, I respectfully disagree. We must find ways of modernizing our fundraising efforts. And that means taking advantage of any online opportunity that can be verified and be certain that it is indeed refutable. Has anybody thought of constant contact and yes Michael harvesting email addresses unfortunately that is the way organizations to raise money in the 21st century. I know that you are stuck somewhat in the 20th. But we must must must move into the 21st century or we will just simply dry up and blow away. That’s just my two cents worth.
>> On Oct 31, 2013, at 8:58 AM, IEWeich <IEWeich at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Stagnation is not the answer. Moving forward is the answer? Which will it be in the future? Again these are just my thoughts.
>> 
>> Respectfully maurice.
>>> I am with you Mike. There is no Free Lunch. I don't subjecting myself and my contacts to spam. 
>>> 
>>> Ivan Weich
>>> Sent from my iPhone via Dragon
>>> 
>>>> On Oct 31, 2013, at 8:34 AM, "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> With respect, I profoundly disagree with all of you. In this world, there
>>>> ain't no such thing as a free lunch. A number of sites run such spam-scams.
>>>> The only way the NFB of Washington would get credit would be if every
>>>> purchaser allowed his/her addressbook or other such lists of email addresses
>>>> or friends to be used by the sites to spam the purchaser's unsuspecting
>>>> confraires. I refuse to allow the NFB of Washington to be used as an
>>>> instrument of unwanted spam. There's way to much of that already.
>>>> 
>>>> CFB looked into this already and I said the same thing on it's list.
>>>> 
>>>> Check it out and caveat emptor.
>>>> 
>>>> Mike Freeman
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: nfbwatlk [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> corey.grandstaff at gmail.com
>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 6:45 AM
>>>> To: NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
>>>> Subject: R`e: [nfbwatlk] Fundraising
>>>> 
>>>> this is a great idea. if anyone else hasno time i will volunter to get this
>>>> process started and get us signed up. corey
>>>> 
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