Sounds like a very good idea. Regards, Jaume
----- Mensaje original ----- > De: Mark Roberts <[email protected]> > Para: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > CC: > Enviado: Lunes 11 de marzo de 2013 20:48 > Asunto: PDML book news > > Hello everyone. Just wanted to post the latest on the 2013 PDML Photo > Annual. > > The submission period ended some time back and now we're in the > traditional "trying to coax/cajole/plead with the editors to get their > votes in on the photos that we'll be using. Nothing different there :) > > What is new is that a couple of weeks ago I received a mailing from > Dana-Farber about a promotion/incentive that seemed interesting: An > anonymous millionaire (most likely) supporter of theirs has agreed to > match (that is, effectively double) every donation they receive before > March 15. I emailed the Powers That Be to ask if we could take > advantage of this while still directing our donation to the Global > Health Initiative - since the PDML is an international group I feel > quite strongly that our donation should go to a program with > international scope. Friday I received the reply that we could > definitely direct our donation to the Global Health Initiative but not > the matching funds that come from the anonymous donor. I suppose it's > not ideal but it's certainly nothing to sneeze at: We raise $500.00 > (about what our annual donation comes to), it still goes to the > international program we support, and an extra five hundred bucks > magically goes to their cancer research in general. What's not to > like? > > Well, the deadline, of course. We haven't even finished putting the > book together at this point, much less sold any copies, and the > deadline's four days away. So here's my plan: I'll write them a > check > for $500.00 when I meet with them on Friday so we get the matching > donation. I'll apply the book sales toward my $500 as they come in. If > sales fall short of $500 the difference will be on me (this is pretty > much how it works out every year, actually: we make $400-$450 and I > round up to $500 with my own donation). If we go over $500 I'll spent > the extra on cookies and beer (just kidding - I'll donate that as > well). > > So that's the plan unless there are any strong, well-reasoned > objections from burly guys who live close enough to come over here and > beat me up. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
