[Lnc-business] LNC Member Monthly Recurring Donations

Wed Jun 15 13:36:48 EDT 2016

Caryn, I am currently at $50/month. If my contribution becomes the lowest, I will consider raising mine to $75 or $100/month.

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From: Lnc-business [mailto:lnc-business-bounces at hq.lp.org] On Behalf Of Caryn Ann Harlos
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:20 PM
To: lnc-business at hq.lp.org
Cc: lnc-business <lnc-business at lp.org>; M Carling <mcarling at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Lnc-business] LNC Member Monthly Recurring Donations

I agree with Daniel here, and particular if M is generous enough to offer this, we should take full advantage.  I am not presently at zero (I am at $10 a month) and was considering increasing that but I had other obligations.  If everyone can commit to make our lowest amount a higher amount than $10, I will raise mine accordingly now and put other things off.  If $10 is going to be the lowest amount anyways... well there is no hurry, so this is a challenge from me to you... let's not have our minimum be $10... whatever anyone else's minimum is (within reason), I will raise mine to be that.

It would be really nice if our minimum were $50 which would mean that M would generously donate $500/month.

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Caryn Ann Harlos

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On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Daniel Hayes <danielehayes at icloud.com <mailto:danielehayes at icloud.com> > wrote:

Libertarians,

We as members of the board, which in our case is known as the Libertarian National Committee, should be leading by example.  For us to be a successful political Party the reality is it takes money.  Be it to pay staff, purchase literature, obtain ballot access, sponsor outreach events, support candidates or any number if things, it takes money.
The way in which we as a political party are able to “make” money is by collecting donations.  As members of the board we should take it upon ourselves to help raise that money by soliciting donations.  The first and easiest way for us to get donations is for the members of the board to set up monthly recurring donations to the National Party.  It is a pretty common practice that many boards have minimal levels of expected donation if someone is a member.  We have no such mandate and I prefer we never set such a thing up.  We should however all voluntarily reach into our pockets and set up a pledge each month if you have not already done so.

A potential added benefit to reaching deep, by making your own pledge, you may almost automatically be able to help bring in a monthly donation 10 times that amount.  During the February 2016 LNC meeting in Orlando at the Rosen Centre, Mr. M Carling informed the LNC that he bases his monthly recurring donation on the donation of the lowest amount paid by any LNC member. He informed us that at times the lowest monthly recurring donation had been as high as $100/month to which he was donating $1000/month in response.  At the time he informed us that zero was the lowest monthly recurring donation by a member and so his monthly donation was zero.  He said he did not include alternates in this calculation.  We have a new board now and I would like to take Mr Carling up on his offer.  As members of the board our donations are a matter of public record and are usually published at the back of the packet staff hands out at each LNC meeting so we all are really on the spot about this already.

Are the other members of the board willing and able to take Mr Carling up on this offer?  I assume it still stands as he has been a member of the Party for a very long time. Even if it does not, We should have all LNC members including the alternates doing something every month. For the newer members, consider setting up a monthly recurring donation to obtain your Life Membership.

I have CCed Mr Carling on this thread, so hit, "Reply All".   Hopefully, he will chime in and lend some further encouragement to this effort.  Let’s set the example and take some of Mr. Carling’s money.

Daniel Hayes
LNC At Large Member
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