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Other ways to help $pread
December 22, 2006
I’ve gotten a lot of comments and emails from people who don’t have money to spare for $pread, but would like to help in some other way.
Though we’re always looking for volunteers (volunteer publicist anyone?), at the moment there’s just no way of getting around the fact that we need cold hard cash to print the magazine and deal with operating expenses. Volunteering to help us stuff envelopes, etc, is lovely but not so much if we have no magazine to put in those envelopes or money to pay shipping costs. There are of course many services we can beg, borrow and get donated to us, but printing and shipping are not among them.
But here’s one way you can help if - as many of you do - you have organizational skills and the desire to cut your teeth on some event planning. $pread plans several fundraisers a year, and the upcoming ones include a reading and our second annual art show, which will have small events across the country leading up to it (that’s all I’ll say about that right now). Most of our events are in New York, with the exception of a party we did in Philly in October and a launch party in San Francisco in March 2005. So - if you’re not in NYC and want to give it a whirl, let me know.
Some ideas for events include: parties/burlesque shows, readings, fashion shows, panel discussions… all of which we’ve produced before, so I can help walk you through the logistics if one of these ideas strikes you and you need help getting started. You can also donate a portion of proceeds from an event you’re already planning if you like.
Another way to help $pread is to help get us into your local bookstore. A while back Melissa Gira wrote a really awesome tutorial about how to make this happen.
Posted by Dacia at December 22, 2006 07:00 PM
Comments
Um… an obvious one comes to mind… a banner ad for donations? Paypal link?
Posted by: Marti Abernathey at December 23, 2006 06:58 PM
Dacia, I probably won’t have any cash myself until next Friday at the earliest, but if you did make a PayPal button or something, I would be glad to post it on my site, and I’m sure others would as well.
Posted by: Chris at December 24, 2006 03:42 PM
