Re: Article mentioning the Food Coop

[Rachel Barge]

Thanks for the shout-out, David!  Hopefully PR like this will kick-start some substantial giving to the food-coop.  I am SO THRILLED at all the amazing hard work everyone has pitched in to make this a reality - you guys are true rock stars!

I wanted to share an opportunity with ya'll.  If anyone is interested in becoming a paid guest blogger like David on www.tenhabits.org, please email me at rachel...@gmail.com.  Please include a sample piece of writing, past blogging experience, familiarity with WordPress, etc.  You don't need blogging experience or WP proficiency in order to write for us - you just need to be interested in sustainability and willing to share your experience.  Check out my first post on the blog to get an idea of the content we're looking for.  FYI, TenHabits is a campaign I manage that is dedicated to bringing new folks into the sustainability fold by getting them to pledge to change ONE habit - it's that simple.

Good luck in the food coop funding campaign - let me know how I can help!

Hugs and peas and carrots,
Rachel

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:06 PM, David Corson-Knowles <david.cor...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi food co-operators,
I wrote this article for Rachel Barge's blog campaign. (If you don't know Rachel, she led the campaign to found the green student fees fund that started the co-op.)

So anyways, it plugs the co-op and The Local, and I thought you might enjoy passing it on to people:

http://www.tenhabits.org/ten-habits/habitchat/

Speaking of which, in my 'about the author' bit at the end I encourage people to contribute to the food co-op. It turns out that UC Berkeley will quadruple match donations from recent alumns (anyone who graduated since 2005 or will graduate in 2010) - so $250 becomes $1000 for the food co-op. If you fall into this category, people can give you money to donate - this counts as you raising and donating money to charity - just note that they don't get a tax deduction. 

All they have to do is visit this link which is the same as the Donate button on the homepage, and click the New Alumni Challenge box. The same is true for checks sent to the co-op in the normal way:
They can write a check, made out to UC Berkeley Foundation with Big Ideas @ Berkeley: Berkeley Student Food Coop in the memo line. THIS IS CRUCIAL. If they make it out to just UC Berkeley Foundation with nothing in the memo line, then they just made a donation to the UC Berkeley Foundation and we won't see any of that money. Sucks. Once they've made it out correctly, they send it to:

Berkeley Student Food Cooperative
P.O. Box 4250
Berkeley, CA  94704-0250

So if you like the article, I'd encourage you to send it on to people with a note about donating to this cool, amazing and soon to be delicious thing your involved in. If you don't like the article, just keep talking to friends and family and new alumni about your vision of community space with real food, what you plan to do to make it happen, and how they can help.

Happily,
David


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