rubyrose
11-10-2009, 06:26 PM
Believe it or not I got these links from a liberal email list I am on.
Figured I would pass them on.
The story (in the Daily Kos) (http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/10/791861/-Saving-BooksForSoldiers.com,-Part-2)
The organization's website. (http://booksforsoldiers.com/)
Pertinent clip from the story:
The way it works now is a soldier goes to the website and fills out the form on the front page and tells us the title of the books (dvd or whatever) they want. That request goes into our database of requests that is viewable by our army of volunteers. The volunteers read the requests and they fill the requests. "Oh yeah, I have that Stephen King novel, I can send it to that soldier in Kabul!" If a volunteer cannot fill the request, the charity's home office will.
(snip)
Six years and over half a million care packages later, BFS is facing closure. Last year we shipped around $2.9 million worth of aid and are set to do around the same this year. But it will be the last time unless we can raise $74,000 - the balance left to raise for this year's operational budget and it has to be raised by December 31st. Corporate funding dried up in 2007, we have already hit up the Fortune 500, VFW, American Legion, Masonic Lodges and every other group you can think of. But now it is your turn.
Just FYI.
Figured I would pass them on.
The story (in the Daily Kos) (http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/10/791861/-Saving-BooksForSoldiers.com,-Part-2)
The organization's website. (http://booksforsoldiers.com/)
Pertinent clip from the story:
The way it works now is a soldier goes to the website and fills out the form on the front page and tells us the title of the books (dvd or whatever) they want. That request goes into our database of requests that is viewable by our army of volunteers. The volunteers read the requests and they fill the requests. "Oh yeah, I have that Stephen King novel, I can send it to that soldier in Kabul!" If a volunteer cannot fill the request, the charity's home office will.
(snip)
Six years and over half a million care packages later, BFS is facing closure. Last year we shipped around $2.9 million worth of aid and are set to do around the same this year. But it will be the last time unless we can raise $74,000 - the balance left to raise for this year's operational budget and it has to be raised by December 31st. Corporate funding dried up in 2007, we have already hit up the Fortune 500, VFW, American Legion, Masonic Lodges and every other group you can think of. But now it is your turn.
Just FYI.