Melissa Boyd
Regarding option #3: OBRA "stuff":
I'd suggest that OBRA set up a CafePress store. Go to www.cafepress.com to
sign up. You just upload your graphics, pick the products you want to offer
them on, set your prices, and they do all the rest. They take orders, handle
payments & credit cards, deal with customers, print the stuff, and ship it.
Then, each month they send you $$. Easy! Just put a link to your CafePress
store on the OBRA website.
This is also a good fundraiser for individual teams, events, and groups like
Cross Crusade or Psychocross. And, it means we all can get cool OBRA stuff
online with no hassle.
Melissa
On 12/21/07, Seth Hosmer wrote:
>
> There have been several good ideas outlined already about raising money
> for OBRA, why don't we use a combination of these? I would propose:
> 1. Raising membership fees for the 2009 season. OBRA membership is
> amazingly inexpensive for what we get. But without adequate funds, the
> organization we all love and count on may find itself in this situation
> again. I would propose that the current annual membership of $20 should be
> at least tripled...$60 is still a bargain. Annual membership fees are
> stable stream of income that the organization can use.
> 2. Add a surcharge to spring races to pay for signs. I don't know what
> it would need to be, but if everybody paid an extra $5 per race start that
> would raise a lot of extra money in a hurry, and prices could go back down
> after the signs are paid off. Don't complain about the $5, especially those
> that willingly throw away $5 at races when they don't pre-register.
> 3. OBRA "stuff": Calendar, T-shirts, stickers, things like
> that. T-shirts can be made easily/quickly for maybe $5 or less, and I am
> sure somebody on the list "knows somebody". You could make an OBRA T-shirt
> with the OBRA logo on the front and some sponsors on the back (sponsors also
> pay in to be on the shirt, maybe making the shirts free for OBRA).
>
> We all need to find a way to pitch in, whether it be a donation when we
> renew our OBRA membership, to willingly pay a little more to race.
>
> Seth Hosmer
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