<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 June 2016 at 15:25, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">I am all for raising funds but we need to articulate the reason why we need them.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote"></div></blockquote></div></span>To pay for labour to achieve goals, such as the existing translations and finance manager roles and perhaps others in the future; to find out which members are active in 2016; to pay for all travel expenses for all active members to attend a sugar summit... there are countless things you can do with general funds. </blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Dave - Walter means how we articulate to potential donors, i.e. the compelling story I have mentioned. It's a marketing problem and rushing through a motion is not the solution - we need to be clear what our vision and major goals are, and relate them convincingly to donors.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Sean<br><br></div></div>