[pjw] THANKS/REQUEST: We appreciate your donations!

[Peace and Justice Works]

Dear PJW supporters

Many of you are probably being overwhelmed with end-of-the-year donation 
requests. Sometimes daily. We try to focus our fundraising efforts to our 
snail mailings, including a fundraising letter from Flying Focus that goes 
out each May, and ones from PJW and Portland Copwatch in November. For 
those of you who have already donated, THANK YOU!! The returns are on par 
with previous years.

But here are a few suggestions if you haven't yet given:

1) Think about increasing your donation by up to 20% to help us keep up
    with growing costs. So if you normally give $25, maybe give $30 this
    year.

2) When sending in your donation by mail or at Network For Good, divvy up
    the funds to help our project groups. Portland Copwatch is doing very
    well, but donations to the Iraq Affinity Group and Flying Focus Video
    Collective go a long way to help the educational work of those projects
    continue. Funds dedicated to the Peace and Justice Works general fund
    end up there. Network For Good has a "designation" field where you can
    say how you want the money allocated.

3) Stamps, stamps, stamps! The USPS keeps upping the cost of first class
    mail, which we need for various purposes. They're now 73 cents each and
    probably will go up again in 2025. Forever stamps can be used, well,
    forever, so if you have extras to donate, send them our way alone or
    with your check/money order.

We appreciate all of you and recognize we're in for another long stretch 
needing to bring an end to militarism, police brutality and the many 
related issues featured on Flying Focus' weekly show (now in its 34th 
year!). Please give if you can. If you can't get to it by the end of the 
year, have no fear-- a new PJW newsletter will be going out on December 
27.

Thank you
dan handelman
--Peace and Justice Works
    PO Box 42456
    Portland, OR   97242
    (503) 236-3065
    pjw at pjw.info
    http://www.pjw.info
    Donate on line: http://www.pjw.info/pjwdonate.html