AHA - Support your Local Hackerspace!!

[Josh Williams]

Hey hey Ladies & Gents, as noted at the most recent board meeting, AHA
has been slowly going through our savings, and we are at a point where
next month (November), it's going to be quite difficult to pay for
rent. We need to bring in an additional ~$1,500 on top of the
estimated income in order to meet our needs.

Michael Shvartsman drafted an initial email, I've made a few
modifications to it, and is wondering if someone from the board could
send this email out to the general AHA list:

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Hello Everyone -

Help AHA make rent next month! On top of our estimated income,
we need to bring in an additional ~$1,500 in the next four weeks. In
classic NPR style, we are coming for you for help. Here are some
things you can do:

1. Have a few extra dollars? Donate! Please click the "Donate"
button on the front of our web site at: http://www.allhandsactive.com/
2. Become a member: If you can afford membership, we'd love to
have you join us!
3. Student/Starving Hacker Member? If your financial situation
supports it, we would love to have you move up to the regular member
rate!
4. If you have friends or compatriots who would enjoy hanging
out with us and making awesome stuff, bring them down!
5. Have your company Sponsor or Donate to AHA! We can offer
exciting perks like employee memberships, advertising, private
classes, or hackathons.
6. Donate your time, help make AHA beautiful! Talk to us for
specific suggestions.
7. If you have skills and can make things that AHA can sell,
talk to us, especially if those are things you can make at AHA! There
may be a bake-and-awesome-stuff fundraising sale in the near to medium
term future.

We have done a ton of awesome things this year alone, and want
to make the rest of this year even more amazing! Check out just a few
of our accomplishments at:
http://wiki.allhandsactive.com/Accomplishments

If you have any other ideas, please talk to us. Yours,

Dana, Michael, Nate D., Nate Y., and Jamison, aka: The Board.

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[Michael S]

If noone objects I will? If noone objects by 1 am, I will send it out.

Michael Senkow

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M.S. in Information '13

Human-Computer Interaction

M.S. Arch. in Digital Technology '13

Partial M.Arch.

University of Michigan 

Mech. Eng. and Tech. Comm. dual B.S.
Michigan Technological University

Alumni of Mu Beta Psi
General Technics Member

Michael H. Senkow | 906.281.4672

[N Y]

Looks good. Thanks, Josh and Michael! It might also be worth
emphasizing how low of an overhead we really have. We've been working
on a small budget for years and done so much.

-- Nate Y.

[Michael Shvartsman]

I like all of Josh's changes.

On #6, I think it makes sense to provide a bit more reasoning for why making AHA beautiful helps us make money. I totally agree that it does, but think this is not obvious to everyone.

Mike.