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Madison Monthly Meeting of the Madison Meeting's need for more income has increased in the past two years due to new and larger expenses in first day school and other areas. These increased expenses have had a profound, wonderful effect on the life of the Meeting and have dramatically increased its vitality and community environment and atmosphere. Also, as you know, most non-profits are being hit very hard with donation drops so decreasing our Meeting's contributions to those groups doesn't seem a good option. Thus the need for increased income for the Meeting resulted in the June 2010 Business Meeting approving a budget which has a $10,000 shortfall. This means that individual contributions will need to be increased over previous years by about 25% and/or more people will need to start donating financially to Meeting. Thus, the finance committee recommended and Business Meeting approved setting up an ad hoc Fundraising Committee to raise $10,000 to meet the 2010-2011 fiscal year budget shortfall and encourage F(f)riends to increase their contributions over the next few years. So far, Pam and Dave M., Judith S-P., Dottie C., Glen C., Shel G. and Stan W. have volunteered for this committee, but others should feel free to join if led. If you feel the need for the important Meeting programs and donations to continue, and feel led to do so, please consider serving on this committee. To do that, contact one of us for more information or to say "Count me in". For those of you not willing to serve on the committee, we ask that you seriously evaluate your ability to give financially to the Meeting for the first time or to increase your annual or other financial giving to Meeting. We realize not everyone can actually afford to give something financial to meeting, but many/most are able to do so in an increased manner. So we hope you will do your own evaluation and decide what you can afford. You can express your decision by either (1) writing a check to meeting now, (2) work with the Meeting Treasurer, David Y., to set up regular transfers from your bank account to the meeting bank account, (3) increase/pledge to increase your annual giving, or (4) pledge some future one time gift. The committee will be working out ways to do this and other options over the next few months. For now, checks or cash placed in the donation box at the meeting house near the guest book at the entrance to the library or work with our Treasurer on item (2) above will suffice. If you have any questions feel free to contact any of the committee members or the Meeting Treasurer, David Y. You will be hearing more from us over the next few months until the $10,000 is reached and then on future long term giving options. If you get tired of hearing from us about this, just donate enough to meet the goal and pledge future increases and we will stop talking about this! 8-) We plan to have more information on this here in the future. Please check back every week or so. |
