November 2006 - Finance

Re: [SFGP Finance] Finanaces and Fundraising Letter
by barry＠barryhermanson.org 29 Nov '06

29 Nov '06

I sent a separate $500 check from my campaign account for the slate card. The $2,000 was a personal check. Barry > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Finanaces and Fundraising Letter > From: John-Marc Chandonia <jmc(a)sfgreens.org> > Date: Wed, November 22, 2006 7:06 pm > To: barry(a)barryhermanson.org > Cc: finance(a)sfgreens.org, funking(a)mindspring.com, christine mcclintock > <chrismcclintock(a)hotmail.com> > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:22:36AM -0700, barry(a)barryhermanson.org wrote: > > The $2,000 I sent to enable the slate card to be printed was a loan. > > Regarding the fundraising list. I was hearing that there was very > > little response to calls, so I didn't waste any time on it. > > Thanks. So I assume we still owe you the full $2000, or was part of > that the contribution from your campaign towards the mailing? > > Can anybody provide more details about the slate card fundraising? > Susan's message, below, says we got $2670 in contributions (in > addition to the pledges she lists for several campaigns). Who gave us > the $2670? I assume we got some donations from Barry's and Krissy's > campaigns, but I don't know how much. > > SK> There is an outstanding bill for the printing, which has not arrived yet (or I > SK> have not yet seen it). It should be for $900 or so (there will be tax and such,so say $950-$1,000). > SK> > SK> Barry paid $2,000 to the mail house, and should be re imbursed ASAP from the > SK> money collected. > SK> > SK> We still need to get checks from: > SK> Jane Kim $100 > SK> Kim Shree Maufas $100 > SK> John Rizzo $100 > SK> Bruce Wolfe $100 > SK> YES on H $50 > SK> Forrest Hill $50 > SK> > SK> The income so far is $2,670, expenses: $3,000. If we are able to collect the > SK> $100 pledges, we will break even. > > JMC > -- > John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) > http://sfgreens.org/

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Re: [SFGP Finance] Finanaces and Fundraising Letter
by funking＠mindspring.com 26 Nov '06

26 Nov '06

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[SFGP Finance] Finanaces and Fundraising Letter
by christine mcclintock 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

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Re: [SFGP Finance] Finanaces and Fundraising Letter
by barry＠barryhermanson.org 23 Nov '06

23 Nov '06

The $2,000 I sent to enable the slate card to be printed was a loan. Regarding the fundraising list. I was hearing that there was very little response to calls, so I didn't waste any time on it. Barry > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Finanaces and Fundraising Letter > From: John-Marc Chandonia <jmc(a)sfgreens.org> > Date: Sun, November 19, 2006 11:28 am > To: christine mcclintock <chrismcclintock(a)hotmail.com> > Cc: finance(a)sfgreens.org, barry(a)barryhermanson.org, > funking(a)mindspring.com > > Susan and Barry, please read through to the end: > > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 09:27:29AM -0800, christine mcclintock wrote: > > I'm attaching the latest spreadsheet of our finances. There are a lot > > of other worksheets included that I was just using to work out our > > last report - you can disregard them... Not very interesting. > > Thanks; I'll take a look later today. > > > Right now, we are just waiting for two checks to post - phone and > > PG&E. Other than that, I think we're pretty much all settled up with > > our payments, though I'm still a little unclear on if we were ever > > going to payback (?) Barry (?) for mailing fees for the slate card? > > The printing of the card itself has been paid and posted. > > Here's what Susan had to say on 10/31. I think this implies that > we still owe Barry some for the mailing. I've copied him so he might > be able to tell us if we still do, and if so, how much. > > SK> There is an outstanding bill for the printing, which has not arrived yet (or I > SK> have not yet seen it). It should be for $900 or so (there will be tax and such,so say $950-$1,000). > SK> > SK> Barry paid $2,000 to the mail house, and should be re imbursed ASAP from the > SK> money collected. > SK> > SK> We still need to get checks from: > SK> Jane Kim $100 > SK> Kim Shree Maufas $100 > SK> John Rizzo $100 > SK> Bruce Wolfe $100 > SK> YES on H $50 > SK> Forrest Hill $50 > SK> > SK> The income so far is $2,670, expenses: $3,000. If we are able to collect the > SK> $100 pledges, we will break even. > > > I'm still not very clear on what the amounts were decided on for rent > > for campaigns, and who is tracking this. Jane Kim's campaign gave us a > > check for $100 the other day... Is that what we are expecting from > > her? I don't know. > > I think the only campaigns we rented to were Jane Kim ($75/mo, see CC > minutes from 9/11) and Krissy Keefer ($100/mo + phone costs, see CC > minutes from 7/12). The $100 from Jane is probably for the slate > card, not rent, as it matches the amount above. Do any of the other > donations we've received seem to match the names/amounts above for the > slate card? > > > I think you said that the letter would cost around $1000? If so, then > > I don't think we'll have any problem. > > Great. Do you have the SFGP's current donor list? According to Susan > (see the 7/12 CC minutes), we had a list of ~800 names that were split > between Krissy and Barry's campaigns. They agreed to give us back the > cleaned up lists (i.e., let us know which addresses were bad) at the > end of the campaign. Do you have either the original list or the list > of bad addesses? If not, I've copied both Susan and Barry on the > message so they can give input. We want to come up with a list of > 2000 people to send the letter to, which will include the cleaned list > of donors (presumably now less than 800). > > Thanks, > JMC > -- > John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) > http://sfgreens.org/

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Re: [SFGP Finance] Finanaces and Fundraising Letter
by barry＠barryhermanson.org 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

The $2,000 I sent to enable the slate card to be printed was a loan. Regarding the fundraising list. I was hearing that there was very little response to calls, so I didn't waste any time on it. Barry > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Finanaces and Fundraising Letter > From: John-Marc Chandonia <jmc(a)sfgreens.org> > Date: Sun, November 19, 2006 11:28 am > To: christine mcclintock <chrismcclintock(a)hotmail.com> > Cc: finance(a)sfgreens.org, barry(a)barryhermanson.org, > funking(a)mindspring.com > > Susan and Barry, please read through to the end: > > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 09:27:29AM -0800, christine mcclintock wrote: > > I'm attaching the latest spreadsheet of our finances. There are a lot > > of other worksheets included that I was just using to work out our > > last report - you can disregard them... Not very interesting. > > Thanks; I'll take a look later today. > > > Right now, we are just waiting for two checks to post - phone and > > PG&E. Other than that, I think we're pretty much all settled up with > > our payments, though I'm still a little unclear on if we were ever > > going to payback (?) Barry (?) for mailing fees for the slate card? > > The printing of the card itself has been paid and posted. > > Here's what Susan had to say on 10/31. I think this implies that > we still owe Barry some for the mailing. I've copied him so he might > be able to tell us if we still do, and if so, how much. > > SK> There is an outstanding bill for the printing, which has not arrived yet (or I > SK> have not yet seen it). It should be for $900 or so (there will be tax and such,so say $950-$1,000). > SK> > SK> Barry paid $2,000 to the mail house, and should be re imbursed ASAP from the > SK> money collected. > SK> > SK> We still need to get checks from: > SK> Jane Kim $100 > SK> Kim Shree Maufas $100 > SK> John Rizzo $100 > SK> Bruce Wolfe $100 > SK> YES on H $50 > SK> Forrest Hill $50 > SK> > SK> The income so far is $2,670, expenses: $3,000. If we are able to collect the > SK> $100 pledges, we will break even. > > > I'm still not very clear on what the amounts were decided on for rent > > for campaigns, and who is tracking this. Jane Kim's campaign gave us a > > check for $100 the other day... Is that what we are expecting from > > her? I don't know. > > I think the only campaigns we rented to were Jane Kim ($75/mo, see CC > minutes from 9/11) and Krissy Keefer ($100/mo + phone costs, see CC > minutes from 7/12). The $100 from Jane is probably for the slate > card, not rent, as it matches the amount above. Do any of the other > donations we've received seem to match the names/amounts above for the > slate card? > > > I think you said that the letter would cost around $1000? If so, then > > I don't think we'll have any problem. > > Great. Do you have the SFGP's current donor list? According to Susan > (see the 7/12 CC minutes), we had a list of ~800 names that were split > between Krissy and Barry's campaigns. They agreed to give us back the > cleaned up lists (i.e., let us know which addresses were bad) at the > end of the campaign. Do you have either the original list or the list > of bad addesses? If not, I've copied both Susan and Barry on the > message so they can give input. We want to come up with a list of > 2000 people to send the letter to, which will include the cleaned list > of donors (presumably now less than 800). > > Thanks, > JMC > -- > John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) > http://sfgreens.org/

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Re: [SFGP Finance] Finanaces and Fundraising Letter
by barry＠barryhermanson.org 22 Nov '06

22 Nov '06

The $2,000 I sent to enable the slate card to be printed was a loan. Regarding the fundraising list. I was hearing that there was very little response to calls, so I didn't waste any time on it. Barry > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Finanaces and Fundraising Letter > From: John-Marc Chandonia <jmc(a)sfgreens.org> > Date: Sun, November 19, 2006 11:28 am > To: christine mcclintock <chrismcclintock(a)hotmail.com> > Cc: finance(a)sfgreens.org, barry(a)barryhermanson.org, > funking(a)mindspring.com > > Susan and Barry, please read through to the end: > > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 09:27:29AM -0800, christine mcclintock wrote: > > I'm attaching the latest spreadsheet of our finances. There are a lot > > of other worksheets included that I was just using to work out our > > last report - you can disregard them... Not very interesting. > > Thanks; I'll take a look later today. > > > Right now, we are just waiting for two checks to post - phone and > > PG&E. Other than that, I think we're pretty much all settled up with > > our payments, though I'm still a little unclear on if we were ever > > going to payback (?) Barry (?) for mailing fees for the slate card? > > The printing of the card itself has been paid and posted. > > Here's what Susan had to say on 10/31. I think this implies that > we still owe Barry some for the mailing. I've copied him so he might > be able to tell us if we still do, and if so, how much. > > SK> There is an outstanding bill for the printing, which has not arrived yet (or I > SK> have not yet seen it). It should be for $900 or so (there will be tax and such,so say $950-$1,000). > SK> > SK> Barry paid $2,000 to the mail house, and should be re imbursed ASAP from the > SK> money collected. > SK> > SK> We still need to get checks from: > SK> Jane Kim $100 > SK> Kim Shree Maufas $100 > SK> John Rizzo $100 > SK> Bruce Wolfe $100 > SK> YES on H $50 > SK> Forrest Hill $50 > SK> > SK> The income so far is $2,670, expenses: $3,000. If we are able to collect the > SK> $100 pledges, we will break even. > > > I'm still not very clear on what the amounts were decided on for rent > > for campaigns, and who is tracking this. Jane Kim's campaign gave us a > > check for $100 the other day... Is that what we are expecting from > > her? I don't know. > > I think the only campaigns we rented to were Jane Kim ($75/mo, see CC > minutes from 9/11) and Krissy Keefer ($100/mo + phone costs, see CC > minutes from 7/12). The $100 from Jane is probably for the slate > card, not rent, as it matches the amount above. Do any of the other > donations we've received seem to match the names/amounts above for the > slate card? > > > I think you said that the letter would cost around $1000? If so, then > > I don't think we'll have any problem. > > Great. Do you have the SFGP's current donor list? According to Susan > (see the 7/12 CC minutes), we had a list of ~800 names that were split > between Krissy and Barry's campaigns. They agreed to give us back the > cleaned up lists (i.e., let us know which addresses were bad) at the > end of the campaign. Do you have either the original list or the list > of bad addesses? If not, I've copied both Susan and Barry on the > message so they can give input. We want to come up with a list of > 2000 people to send the letter to, which will include the cleaned list > of donors (presumably now less than 800). > > Thanks, > JMC > -- > John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) > http://sfgreens.org/

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[SFGP Finance] added David Sloane
by John-Marc Chandonia 18 Nov '06

18 Nov '06

Hi, I added David Sloane to the finance list. He mentioned at the meeting last week that he had some ideas for fundraising. Welcome, David! JMC -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/

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Re: [SFGP Finance] [SFGP CC] fundraising letter
by susan_e_vaughan＠juno.com 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

I will talk to Krissy about a date in January on Friday. See you all at Ross's art party, damnit!!! Sue -- John-Marc Chandonia <jmc(a)sfgreens.org> wrote: Hi, The CC plans to send a fundraising letter to ~2000 SF Greens who have voted recently and live in the wealthiest precincts in SF (in order to maximize chance of positive reply), along with all our past donors who aren't still sustainers. We have raised ~$1000 in seed money for this through Sue's excellent technique of demanding a $1 donation from people while tabling. The idea is to send a fundraising pitch (trying to get them to be sustainers) focusing on our success in the current election. Can anybody volunteer to draft such a letter? We would get this printed and mailed by a bulk mailer along with our return envelope. Note that we'd like to send this in early December, and also invite them to both our holiday party (12/20) and a January fundraiser (at Dance Mission, date TBD). JMC -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/ _______________________________________________ San Francisco Green Party CC mailing list CC(a)sfgreens.org To unsubscribe or change options, go here: https://list.sfgreens.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cc

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[SFGP Finance] fundraising letter
by John-Marc Chandonia 17 Nov '06

17 Nov '06

Hi, The CC plans to send a fundraising letter to ~2000 SF Greens who have voted recently and live in the wealthiest precincts in SF (in order to maximize chance of positive reply), along with all our past donors who aren't still sustainers. We have raised ~$1000 in seed money for this through Sue's excellent technique of demanding a $1 donation from people while tabling. The idea is to send a fundraising pitch (trying to get them to be sustainers) focusing on our success in the current election. Can anybody volunteer to draft such a letter? We would get this printed and mailed by a bulk mailer along with our return envelope. Note that we'd like to send this in early December, and also invite them to both our holiday party (12/20) and a January fundraiser (at Dance Mission, date TBD). JMC -- John-Marc Chandonia (jmc(a)sfgreens.org) http://sfgreens.org/

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