Don, I tried to donate $50 on my credit card. Got all the way to the end, and it says "sorry we don't offer that support level".
George On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Don Begley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I understand some folks have not been able to donate to the complex because > of glitches on our site, www.sfcomplex.org/zen-cart. I worked on the site > and, hopefully, made donations easier. > When you are ready to checkout, please choose the PayPal button regardless > of whether you have a PayPal account. (Our PayPal merchant account lets you > use your VISA, MasterCard, Amex or Discover card without your own PayPal > account.) You should see a screen divided in two vertically. The right side > is for PayPal account login. The left side leads to a standard credit card > processing page. Choose it and you're on your way. > > Thanks to everyone who succeeded in making a contribution. We've raised > approximately $2500 so far, thanks to their generosity. We need another $10k > in the next 10 days to pay current expenses, so we greatly appreciate any > additional help those of you on this list can offer. > > We are beginning an institutional fund-raising program and have had very > positive responses so far. The difficulty we face is coordinating our cash > flow with the grant cycles of these institutions--in plainer English, that > means we have to meet our expenses while we apply for and > receive institutional support. Santa Fe helped us start this process with > the city's $29,000 personal services agreement. As Nick noted, we have to > raise $20,000 ourselves to get all of that grant. We also have to > demonstrate our ability to raise funds before we can receive further city > grants. Thus, we have an additional incentive in our short-term fundraising > effort, which is to complete our agreement with the city. > > Your help is the key to our short-term needs and long-term success. FRIAM > is the intellectual godfather of Santa Fe Complex. One of our main goals is > to create a virtual space where FRIAMers around the world can see what > happens here and participate in it. Your contribution today will help us all > move towards that goal. > > Which leads to the ask, as they say in fundraising. Click > here<http://www.sfcomplex.org/zen-cart> to > go to our donations site and make your contribution. If you have any > difficulties, please call me. > > > --- > Don Begley > Managing Director > Santa Fe Complex > 624 Agua Fria > Santa Fe, NM 87501 > > www.santafecomplex.org > 505-216-7562 > 505.670.9432 (cell) > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- George T. Duncan Professor of Statistics, Emeritus Heinz School of Public Policy and Management Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (505) 983-6895
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