<p class="MsoNormal">Hi friends,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As you know, Shaping San Francisco has been going for almost
a decade on a shoestring. I'm writing to ask you to donate to the project for
several specific purposes. We are on the cusp of a whole new on-line presence
that will include both a new, open wiki version, and a more carefully curated
collection that we'll be creating over the next few months. We've launched a
fundraising campaign to raise $10,000 and have already acquired $2,000 of that,
so we're off to a good start. <br></p><p class="MsoNormal">We maintain our current website as well as two public kiosks
at the Main Library and New College.
We have our ongoing series of Talks at CounterPULSE two Wednesdays every month,
recorded and broadcast on KUSF, 90.3 FM on Thursday nights at 10:30 p.m. And we also take history to the
public regularly by way of our ongoing bicycle history tours that are offered
8-10 times a year.<br> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We've done a great job of keeping these balls in the air all
these years with entirely volunteer labor. That is becoming impossible to
sustain. Now I come to you with hat in hand.<br> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We are raising money to pay for the radio time (very
inexpensive at $25 per show) and to help pay for the extensive editing time it
takes to turn our 2+ hour Talks into half-hour radio shows. We are also raising
money to pay a programming team to convert our existing content to a new system
that will allow us to finally have easy access to updating and fixing and
improving our collection on-line. And we hope it will also recapture some of
the multimedia magic we created in our original version that sadly was made
obsolete by changes in the Windows operating system… </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Donations to Shaping San Francisco can be made by sending a
check made out to "CounterPULSE" and earmarked for Shaping San Francisco to 1310
Mission Street, San Francisco, CA
94103. Or you can visit the
<a href="http://www.shapingsf.org">Shaping San Francisco website</a> and donate via our paypal donation button right
on the home page.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Help us jump up to the next level! Keep Shaping San
Francisco thriving and growing for another 10 years!</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you. If you have any questions, suggestions, or
comments, please send them to me.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chris Carlsson</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director, Shaping San Francisco</p>
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