ASCLA needs your help! We have an opportunity to win the $5,000 prize that GuideStar USA, Inc., the leading source of nonprofit information, and KIMBIA, a group that empowers nonprofits and other organizations to increase giving, are making available through their Winter 2011 GuideStar-KIMBIA Nonprofit Giveaway.
Anyone with firsthand knowledge about and who is not a paid employee of ASCLA—donors, volunteers, board members, recipients of our services—can write a review about ASCLA on GuideStar or GreatNonprofits.org. The organization that receives the most number of reviews on www.guidestar.org and www.greatnonprofits.org during this period will win a grand prize of $5,000.
To write a review, please click on:
http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/36-2166947/american-library-association.aspx
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http://www.greatnonprofits.org/reviews/profile2/american-library-association
We are incredibly fortunate to have passionate and committed members. If every supporter would take the time to write a review, ASCLA could be a contender for the GuideStar-KIMBIA Nonprofit Giveaway and could do great things with the prize money. Any one of the following things on our wish list could be funded by this gift:
- Fund an online advocacy toolkit, public rallies, educational online events about doing advocacy right, etc.
- Create a buyer’s guide with a review database that gives the seal of approval from ASCLA for accessibility products.
- Hire a famous or well-known presenter/instructor for an online course/webinar, preconference, or institute on a hot topic of interest to ASCLA members.
- Start a new membership drive with give-aways for new members (discounts on conference registration, free night at a conference hotel, money towards a flight, etc.).
- Start a traveling ambassador program: have volunteers in the regions visit library schools, state libraries, library co-ops and other potential ASCLA members to recruit into ASCLA.
- Create a total package for ILEX: hire someone to help develop an online version of the consulting institute, additional educational courses/preconferences for library consultants, or a business plan to reach out and recruit library consultants.
- Hire a consultant to plan and implement ASCLA online courses.
(If you have any ideas about how to use the prize money to benefit members and carry out our mission, send them to ASCLA Executive Director Susan Hornung, shornung@ala.org, and we’ll add them to the list)
There is no charge for writing a review, but you are limited to posting only one review per organization.
The giveaway ends at 11:59 p.m. EDT February 28, 2011, so please don’t waste any time: help spread the word about ASCLA by writing a review and forwarding this message to anyone else who can write a great review of ASCLA.