Where are we with the Tiki Gardens Memorial fund? - General Tiki

H hanford_lemoore Tiki Socialite Tiki Central Joined: Mar 23, 2002 Posts: 1899	H hanford_lemoore Posted posted on Sat, Feb 15, 2003 6:06 PM It truly is an idealist view to assume that one can post a message saying “I’m building a memorial! Who’s in?” and get $2000 in hard cash to pour in over a month. Good, solid, information on this project is so scattered around the various threads and messages that it’s tough to keep track. Perhaps some organization of the information, and an effort to contact the people who pledged, will help. First Let’s see if we can’t get it all in one easy to read place to understand where we really are. If we can collect this information I’ll post it to the Memorial page that the banner links to. Wayne wants $5000 to build the Tiki. Tiki Central members only pledged $1500. Even if we got 100% of the pledge money, there’s not enough to fund it. What is the plan to get the rest of the money? What do contributors get if they pay up? Anything? A name on a plaque? Has that been decided? I don’t expect anything, but let’s face it, names on the memorial will motivate more people to pay up. What’s the deadline for the cash? Is there a hard deadline? People always wait till the last minute. What is the plan? What is the proposal? Is there a website we can see it? What will our money go to? Are there pictures? What was the final tiki chosen? Secondly, let’s see if we can contact the pledgers: Who has pledged but not paid? I want names. (this has been requested in the original thread before … who has the complete list of names? Is that you Chris, or Otto?) Have they been contacted by email? By PM? Since I have access to all the member’s email addresses (public or otherwise) I volunteer to attempt to contact them, but I’ll need a list of member names who have paid. I’ll use that list to compare it to the pledge page. If you don’t have Tiki Central member names, that’s okay, we’ll contact everyone. I don’t want to contact anyone through until the above questions are answered. Our best bet to get them to pay is to have this information for them. I know all this sounds like Extra work, but let’s face it: when you want people to pay, you just can’t yell “Pay!” and have the money come pouring in. I can't step up and take the project on, but I can offer the website, the forum, and my contacts in order to help out. ~Hanford [ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2003-02-15 23:47 ]

It truly is an idealist view to assume that one can post a message saying “I’m building a memorial! Who’s in?” and get $2000 in hard cash to pour in over a month. Good, solid, information on this project is so scattered around the various threads and messages that it’s tough to keep track. Perhaps some organization of the information, and an effort to contact the people who pledged, will help.

First Let’s see if we can’t get it all in one easy to read place to understand where we really are. If we can collect this information I’ll post it to the Memorial page that the banner links to.

Wayne wants $5000 to build the Tiki. Tiki Central members only pledged $1500. Even if we got 100% of the pledge money, there’s not enough to fund it. What is the plan to get the rest of the money?
What do contributors get if they pay up? Anything? A name on a plaque? Has that been decided? I don’t expect anything, but let’s face it, names on the memorial will motivate more people to pay up.
What’s the deadline for the cash? Is there a hard deadline? People always wait till the last minute.
What is the plan? What is the proposal? Is there a website we can see it? What will our money go to? Are there pictures? What was the final tiki chosen?

Secondly, let’s see if we can contact the pledgers:

Who has pledged but not paid? I want names. (this has been requested in the original thread before … who has the complete list of names? Is that you Chris, or Otto?)
Have they been contacted by email? By PM? Since I have access to all the member’s email addresses (public or otherwise) I volunteer to attempt to contact them, but I’ll need a list of member names who have paid. I’ll use that list to compare it to the pledge page. If you don’t have Tiki Central member names, that’s okay, we’ll contact everyone. I don’t want to contact anyone through until the above questions are answered. Our best bet to get them to pay is to have this information for them.

I know all this sounds like Extra work, but let’s face it: when you want people to pay, you just can’t yell “Pay!” and have the money come pouring in.

I can't step up and take the project on, but I can offer the website, the forum, and my contacts in order to help out.

~Hanford

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2003-02-15 23:47 ]

Post #23173 by hanford_lemoore on Sat, Feb 15, 2003 6:06 PM