Insideschools update
Thanks to our readers for your many generous donations and thoughtful suggestions on how to keep Insideschools.org alive and thriving. Please know that we are exploring your ideas and many, many others.
The good news is that Insideschools will not go dark. The sad news is that we have had to let go some of our gifted and committed staff members. And given our severely constrained financial circumstances, we will be curtailing some of our features.
During the coming months we will explore many strategies to determine how to continue providing a high service to you, our loyal readers, while we focus on finding alternate, sustainable sources of revenue.
At the same time, we’ll keep sending regular e-mail alerts to bring you the latest schools news. We’ll keep you apprised on The InsideSCOOP about what’s happening with school admissions and other Department of Education news. And, with your help, we’ll update individual school information as often as we can.
But, we cannot continue to provide this service without you!
How can you help?
- Post a comment. Tell us — and others – what’s going on in your school. It just takes a minute.
- Know of an event of interest to parents? Post it on our calendar
- Start a conversation – or join a conversation – on our forum.
- Share your contacts: Do you have contacts in business, philanthropy, or government that may be interested in Insideschools.org? Let us know!
- Donate! We’re more than halfway to our goal of $10,000 in individual donations by July 31. That is a small fraction of our total operating costs, but we know that generous support from people like you will help us to secure significant funding from other sources. (A special thanks to those who have already donated!)
Thanks for your support. We’ll keep you posted.
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Hi,
My name is Abel and I read your story in an article from The West Side Spirit. I will make a small donation soon
It would make an impact but every penny counts. Many organizations that would have come to the rescue last year have tightened their wallets.
I have worked in advertising and as I read your story I was thinking about what you could do to raise extra funds.
-Send out a press release about your situation
-Try to get more editorial in newspapers
-Call “help me howard” or “7 on your side”.
-The article mentioned over 1 million visitors. Have you captured their information. Such as e-mail and address to facilitate a direct mail campaign to solicit funds? If not, I think it would be best for you to capture visitors information. It would be great if you could send out a mass e-mail to 500,000 of these individuals if 1% of these individuals responded and donated $25. You would net $125,000.
-Increase advertising on your website
I hope all goes well. I think your website a great service to parents.
Best,
Abel
Comment by Abel — July 23, 2009 @ 9:25 pm
Hi,
One more tip…. Get Interns!!!!
Comment by Abel Devis — July 23, 2009 @ 9:29 pm