Center for Civil Society International ([email protected])
Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:03:46 -0800 (PST)
About CivilSoc
or
A Shameless Appeal for Support
CivilSoc is a project of Center for Civil Society
International (CCSI) in cooperation with the Center for
International Networking Initiatives at the University of
Tennessee. CivilSoc serves 1,200 subscribers and has
broadcast more than 700 messages since the list started
January 1, 1995.
We try to make CivilSoc as useful and concise as possible.
Each day we cull messages from the dozens of listservs to
which we subscribe to bring you the most interesting, most
up-to-date news related to the development of non-
governmental organizations, democratic reform and other
civil society projects in the former USSR. We moderate the
list so that your e-mail inbox isn't cluttered with
subscribe messages, personal correspondence, and spam.
CCSI believes that CivilSoc makes a significant contribution
to the development of civil societies in the fifteen new
nations of the ex-USSR and helps to deepen America�s
engagement with this vast and highly important region of the
world. CivilSoc connects people living continents apart but
working together on the challenges posed by catastrophic
environmental and public health conditions and corrupt or
irrational political and economic structures. In societies
isolated from the rest of the world for more than seven
decades, CivilSoc provides practical, project-oriented
information to people who would never see this information
otherwise.
CCSI fully intends to continue publishing CivilSoc. Indeed
we would like to expand the service and make it even more
useful to the full range of subscribers in the former Soviet
Union.
However, like most long-term and creative activities, it
requires commitments of real time--and therefore real
dollars--to sustain. To talk �bottom line,� CivilSoc's
future will depend on CCSI being able to raise $24,000 a
year to fund it. This translates into $20 per subscriber.
Put another way, for $20/year each CivilSoc subscriber is
receiving on average 350 messages a year--or only six cents
per message.
So, CCSI must somehow raise these funds in order to keep
this service going. This means asking you, if you share a
commitment to the mission of CivilSoc, to help us to keep
this important service going--and to make it even better.
We can think of at least four ways in which you can help
support CivilSoc:
* Most importantly, please consider supporting it with your
tax-deductible contribution to CCSI.
* If you work for an organization which has a budget for
print journals and newsletters, we would be happy to send
you an invoice for an "annual subscription" to CivilSoc.
* If you appreciate CivilSoc, but can't find a way to make
a financial contribution, you can still help support it.
Send us some kind of laudatory statement with your
organizational affiliation. We can then compile these and
include them with grant proposals for foundations.
* Finally, whenever you come across any information you
think is of extraordinary importance or relevance to the
issues of civil society in the nations of the former Soviet
Union, think of making that a post to the 1,200 other
subscribers of CivilSoc. Many of the messages you see on
CivilSoc were posted there by List members.
We hope you will support CivilSoc this year and show your
commitment to the power of the Internet in service to civil
society. Checks should be made payable to "CCSI" and mailed
to:
Center for Civil Society International
2929 NE Blakeley Street
Seattle, WA 98105-3120
Tel: (206) 523-4755
Fax: (206) 523-1974
E-mail: [email protected]
Alternatively you may now use your credit card to make a
donation to CCSI. Either send us an e-mail message, giving
your credit card number, expiration date and the amount you
wish to contribute; or ask us to call you in order to take
this information over the telephone.
Center for Civil Society International is a registered
501(c)(3) organization which means that all contributions in
support of CivilSoc are tax deductible.
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