Call for Donations
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The push to the impending Big Switch to Open Durham / Endangered Durham 2.0 is on, and I'm putting out a call for donations. I'll try to spare you a public radio-like torrent of pleas to your RSS feed, but funding is short for the first stage of the project - which will get a functional 2.0 online, with all of the content from Endangered Durham uploaded:
Raised to date: $6100
Funds committed / expended to date: $6100.
Funds needed for launch: $0
A big thanks to all of you who made personal donations - I am very appreciative of your help with this project and support for Durham's history.
On the business side, a big thanks to Durham newcomer HTC, which donated $1000 of the above total after I helped them find historic pictures for their new offices. But only three other businesses have made a donation - Urban Durham Realty, Marsosudiro & Company, and CT Wilson Construction. If you're an employee or owner of one of the dozens/hundreds of businesses that I've answered questions for, provided pictures to, given advice to re: your building, etc., please try to make a contribution. If you're one of the many businesses that has used my photos and/or research in your business materials, or has just used Endangered Durham to answer questions germane to your business - please make a donation.
I'm very appreciative of the folks who have donated on the personal side, and the generosity you've shown. Just not that many people have done so. While ED gets ~1500 hits a day, about 20 people have donated money to the new project. If you appreciate the work I've done here, would like to see a better ED 2.0 get off the ground, and can afford to, please make a contribution.
Donate buttons are on the upper left sidebar. Donations over $100 are tax-dedcutible through Preservation North Carolina (top button.) Donations below $100 are welcome, but not tax-deductible (lower button.)
As a preview, I've posted a screenshot of the new ED in development, below. I hope to be able to launch the new site August 1st.
Many thanks to you all
- Gary
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13 comments:
Only 20 people? Only two businesses? What the hell? Contribute, damn it! Just click on the Donate block. It's not hard.
The new site looks like it's going to be great, Gary. I'm looking forward to it.
Good call making a strong, direct, compelling ask. I just donated. Thanks for everything you do!
Ditto Arthur:
I just sent a contribution from Marsosudiro & Company LLC.
Polite suggestion: point people to the donate buttons -- it took me a moment to find them :-)
p.s. I meant that it took me a while to find them because I didn't start looking until I got to the end of your post, and by then the top left corner of the site was both out of sight and out of mind. (Yeah, I sometimes do web marketing for work.)
Well, I'm ready to donate $20 - and I live in Chapel Hill!! But $100 is the smallest donation. What's with that?
George
You can donate as little as you'd like - you just need to hit the second donate button down. Preservation North Carolina is my sponsoring fiscal agent for tax deductible donations, and they did not want to handle the tax deduction paperwork for <$100. So I had to bifurcate the options for above $100 and below $100 to allow people a tax-deductible option.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Gary
C'mon Durham!
You know very well that this is far more valuable than most of the sites you visit -- and definitely worth a few tax-deductible dollars. And think of the money that you throw away everyday (we all do!) on stuff that you'll forget about or tire of soon. Isn't this site far more unique and valuable?
It is because of the hard work and vision of people in our city's past that Durham has become what it is today, because they wanted to achieve something of value to pass down to other generations. The new site -- which will make the amazing unique ED even more valuable, accessible and useful for thinking about the real world -- represents another such vision and opportunity. It will be an important resource for our community, and a model to help others in other communities.
You know that you want to give, that you've been meaning to give. Now is the time. It will feel great, I promise!
Looks great! Love the new look!
How about a mailing address for those of us who prefer not to use the internet.
Absolutely:
Endangered Durham
505 Yancey Street
Durham, NC 27701
Thank you!
Gary
Gary, seems like sometime the week before last you had a blog regarding Addison's Playworld with some pictures, along with one of the best Christmas parade pictures I've ever seen. What happened to that? I was out of town (in Durham) this week, and wanted to view it again when I got back to Atlanta, but can't seem to locate it. Thanks much.
I went ahead and kicked in $6000... can the rest of you come up with $100? ;-)
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