(MBM) The "25 Things" meme

[Walter Bender]

In some sense, Christian has already done this on the beta homepage.

-walter

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com> wrote:
> This is a cute idea. Does anyone want to write 25 Random Things about Sugar?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Deborah Elizabeth Finn <deborah_elizabeth_finn at post.harvard.edu>
> Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 8:35 PM
> Subject: (MBM) The "25 Things" meme
> To: Mission-Based Massachusets <Mission-Based-Massachusetts at yahoogroups.com>
>
>
> Dear MBM Colleagues,
>
> Some of you may be familiar with the "25 Random Things About Me"
> phenomenon on Facebook
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25_random_things#Notes>.
>
> I was just reading the latest e-newsletter from the Prison Book
> Program <http://prisonbookprogram.org>, and saw that this wonderful
> local nonprofit had made clever use of it to educate friends and
> stakeholder about itself. (Please see the bottom of my message, if
> you'd like to read the 25 things from the Prison Book Program.)
>
> It occurs to me that this could be a clever strategy for many small
> nonprofits - there's something in human nature that is drawn to lists!
> Do please feel free to post 25 things about your nonprofit
> organization to <mission-based-massachusetts at yahoogroups.com>.
>
> Many thanks and best regards from Deborah
>
> P.S. I've succumbed to the fad as well. If for some reason you'd like
> to knew 25 things about me, just go to
> <http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=48781602995>.
>
> Deborah Elizabeth Finn
> Cyber-Yenta
> Boston, Massachusetts, USA
> deborah_elizabeth_finn at post.harvard.edu
> www.cyber-yenta.org
> Skype: Deborah909
> Twitter: Deborah909
> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/deborah909
>
> "Everybody can be great...
> because everybody can serve."
> - Martin Luther King jr. (1929 - 1968)
>
> ===========================================
>
> 25 Things About the Prison Book Program
>
> 1. We share a church basement with some pretty famous people - John
> Adams, John Quincy Adams and their wives are interred in crypts about
> 20 feet away from our book room.
>
> 2. We have over 4600 books in our book room - if piled on top of
> each other, they would be over 30 stories high.
>
> 3. We have a collection of "wacky cat books" in our library. Some
> favorites include "The Cat Cookbook," "The Meow Te Ching" and a book
> of kitty personal ads.
>
> 4. One of the funniest books that was ever donated to us was
> "Children's Letters to Spiro Agnew."
>
> 5. We are affiliated with the Lucy Parsons Bookstore
>
> 6. Lucy Parsons was a labor organizer in Chicago
>
> 7. Despite having died in 1942, Lucy still gets marriage proposals
> and love letters from prisoners.
>
> 8. For $25, you can fund a GED study guide and dictionary that will
> allow one prisoner to receive a GED.
>
> 9. Our "We the People" legal primer was authored by an ex-offender
> who just showed up with a finished copy one day.
>
> 10. Our logo was designed by two inmates at the Souza-Baranowski
> State Prison in Shirley, MA. They also came up with the tagline
> "Books can open doors."
>
> 11. Our National Prisoner Resource List has been around for 21
> years. Recently a sight-impaired volunteer created the large-print
> version.
>
> 12. Dictionaries are by far our most requested book.
>
> 13. We love it when volunteers take it upon themselves to improve
> the way we do things at PBP.
>
> 14. We really would love for someone to donate several laptops.
>
> 15. With a small but dedicated group of volunteers, PBP is able to
> ship out over 15,000 books each year.
>
> 16. Unlike other non-profit organizations, PBP has no paid staff so
> all of the work is done by our volunteers.
>
> 17. PBP is one of the oldest "free books to prisoners" programs in
> the country; there are approximately 15-20 other programs across the
> country.
>
> 18. PBP is 35 years old.
>
> 19. Our favorite donations are paperback non-fiction titles.
>
> 20. We hold a book drive each fall with City Mission Society of
> Boston and Better World Books. We have collected 20,000 book
> donations in each of the last two years.
>
> 21. Our 2009 book drive is scheduled for Saturday October 3.
>
> 22. 43% of inmates did not have a high school diploma or GED.
> (Dept of Justice statistics)
>
> 23. Based on current rates of first incarceration, an estimated 32%
> of black males will enter State or Federal prison during their
> lifetime, compared to 17% of Hispanic males and 5.9% of white males
>
> 24. Thirty-one percent of jail inmates had grown up with a parent or
> guardian who abused alcohol or drugs. About 12 percent had lived in a
> foster home or institution. Forty-six percent had a family member who
> had been incarcerated
>
> 25. Since 1990, several studies have shown that prisoners who attend
> educational programs while they are incarcerated are less likely to
> return to prison following their release
>
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