<div dir='auto'>I think other people said that more recently than I, its been a few months since I did 😂, tho I hinted at it.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Well thought out as always.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">John Phillips<br>Libertarian National Committee Region 6 Representative<br>Cell 217-412-5973</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 6, 2019 12:59 PM, Joe Bishop-Henchman via Lnc-business <lnc-business@hq.lp.org> wrote:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I guess Mr. Fishman's honeymoon period is over!
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I'm willing to hear out our ED and not shoot it down immediately, but
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for my part I will need a lot more details when we consider it. If we're
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hiring a contractor, I want to know precisely what tasks the contractor
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will be doing on at least a quarterly basis if not a monthly or weekly
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basis, and how (and who) will be actively monitoring progress and
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adjusting based on the results.
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I will also need to review the information addressing whether this
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violates the Bylaws or common past understandings of the role of the
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Chair or LNC members.
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This contractor-who-knows-us approach would be preferable, in my view,
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to hiring a commission fundraiser who knows little about us and
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therefore will be ineffective at securing major donors willing to invest
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long-term with us. In-person telemarketing, which is effectively what
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that is, can be effective for raising money quickly, but only at
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enormous expense (as a percent of dollar raised), great risk of
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misrepresentation, and at the expense of a continuing relationship.
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Ideally we need to construct a fundraising department, essentially from
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scratch now. We have two main donor audiences - major donors and small
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dollar donors - and each of them needs attention as to their
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prospecting/qualification/opening doors, asking/closing, and
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stewardship/cultivation. That's essentially six completely different
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skills (2 audiences times 3 jobs each) and we can't have one person do
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all of it and expect them to do better than Lauren could. We also can't
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hire six people, so the answer is going to be a mix of LNC members, the
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ED, staff, and contractors.
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If we're going to get to a place where we are raising millions of
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dollars or more each year, building a fundraising department is an
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essential second step. (The first step is doing exciting things donors
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want to support, or at least proposing to focus on those things. On that
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part, I'd like to invite Apollo to the next Board meeting and tell us
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what he has up his sleeves.) If what Mr. Fishman proposes is a step in
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that direction, I'm more inclined to support it. If not, not.
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As Mr. Phillips I think noted, if we say no to everything and propose
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nothing we will quickly realize in a bad way how important fundraising
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is.
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JBH
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Joe Bishop-Henchman
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LNC Member (At-Large)
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joe.bishop-henchman@lp.org
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www.facebook.com/groups/189510455174837
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On 2019-07-05 16:50, John Phillips via Lnc-business wrote:
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> Then lets get hiring.
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