X-Message-Number: 6914 Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 16:13:00 +0100 From: John de Rivaz <> Subject: Re: fundraising professionals In article: <> writes: > Before I agreed to take the fund raising job, I called several > professional fund raising companies as I thought that would be the best > way for Alcor to do fundraising. The minimum fees they charged were much > more than we receive in donations. You have to pay them regardless of > whether they help you collect any money or not. > I have heard exactly the same myself, and also about accountants who raise money for new businesses on the stock market. "Professional" was once almost a synonym for "excellent" - now (as a noun) it is a synonym for "con-man". By organising themselves into cartels, many professions are now just organisations for shafting the clients. I joined Terra Libra as a result of reading about this freedom group in Venturist Monthly News, thinking that here was an organisation that may be able to do something about the rape of the world by the professions. According to their literature, it would use non-violent, legitimate market foces to achieve the "terra libra shift". A few months ago Terra Libra appointed professional managers for their LMS program, and what was once a highly successful system of promoting freedom information is failing fast as a result. This is a bit off topic for cryonet, but if anyone would like to continue to discuss it, please email <> to get onto the LMS list (message address <>) which is a pressure list for disgruntled LMS members. -- Sincerely, **************************************** * Publisher of Longevity Report * John de Rivaz * Fractal Report * * details on request * **************************************** In the information age, sharing can increase world wealth enormously, because giving information does not decrease your information. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JohndeR Fast loading, very few slow pictures Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=6914