Brought to you by the Friends of the North Coast's Natural History Museum
The Friends of the North Coast's Natural History Museum is a devoted group of volunteers and community members who have come together to fundraise, organize and develop plans to keep the museum open.

Although we recently received word that HSU did not accept our proposal we are not giving up! We have already raised over $74,000 in pledges -- a considerable amount considering the short time line and we plan to raise more!

If you have been thinking about pledging then pledge now! As we get word out about our continued efforts and continue to communicate this to HSU we want them to see just how dedicated this community is to the museum.

- If you are interested in pledging money to keep the museum open please visit http://www.savethenorthcoastnhm.org/ . -

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

So you've volunteered to staff one of our community tables? What now?!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! This group is run by volunteers like you! Every little way you can help... helps. We've already raised over $4,000 just through TABLING alone!

Here's the basic outline of what you do at the tabling events:

You are helping to:

1. Spread community awareness of the museum situation and ask for community support for the future sustainability of the museum

2. Accept pledges in support of the museum:
* People can either fill out the pledge form and leave it with you, or they can pledge electronically online.

3. Hand out the flyer with our blog and web address on it
* They can check out the information, sign up for volunteering, write a letter to the editor, pledge online, or so that they can hang the flyer up at their place of work, etc.

4. Have people write their name and contact information on the email list if they are interested in volunteering.
* We can use volunteers at places like the Wildberries Table, K-12 outreach, and much more.

5. Let people know that we are interested in any support ideas they have for the future of the museum:
* The main idea is that we hope to really leverage all the great community support we are currently receiving to help us sustain the museum in the long term.
* So all the great ideas we are receiving we would love to utilize our community contacts not just right now, but also in the future as the museum will continue to need these ideas if it stays open.

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