X-Message-Number: 1867
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 93 10:24:18 -0800
From:  (Thomas D. Shapard)
Subject: CRYONICS

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ALCOR Donations
	Large national organizations that solicit donations have 
the advantage of a very large pool of possible donors to draw 
from.  The same can even be said of local organizations, like 
your local PBS station that annoys you with those pledge weeks.  
ALCOR has no such advantage.  We ALCOR members are essentially 
its pool of potential donors, and that makes for a very tiny pool 
compared to outfits like the Heart Association or any national 
social/political organization you can name.
	With that in mind I commend the following line of 
reasoning to my fellow members.  I have been in the habit of 
dribbling out modest donations to assorted organizations during 
the year (many of who seem to use my donation mostly to print and 
send me more requests for donations ;-).  By the end of the year 
this amounts to a few hundred dollars of donations.  However on 
reflection, the success of none of these organizations means 
nearly as much to me and my future as does that of ALCOR.  
Further, nearly all of these organizations have that large donor 
pool advantage that ALCOR lacks.  For those organizations I 
represent a vanishingly small fraction of a fraction of a percent 
of their potential donor pool.  No so to ALCOR.  To ALCOR I am 
one of the (sadly) precious few.
	From this I conclude the following for my self, and ask 
other members to consider the same for themselves.  The bulk of 
whatever annual charitable giving I do should go to ALCOR.  
Whenever I see one of those many requests for donations from some 
other worthy organization, I remind myself that that organization 
has thousands   of people who will donate to it, maybe hundreds 
of thousands.  ALCOR does not, and it's up to me, and "we happy 
few" ALCOR members to make up for that fact.

Tom Shapard
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