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See message below. This is actually a worthwhile charity working in our industry to put charities in touch with people capable of helping them out.
Please vote if you think it worthwhile
Mick
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:06:41 +0100 (BST) From: info@it4communities.org.uk To: mick@rlogin.net Subject: iT4Communities - vote by 22 Jul to help our funding
As you may be aware, iT4Communities has been having some funding problems. We lost our government funding when Capacity Builders decided that national programmes should not support front line voluntary organisations directly. Now you and I know that services and systems like iT4C can only sensibly operate on a national scale (if not an international one?) and that we and you do serve front line voluntary organisations and charities directly. But that's water under the bridge now.
Right now, we've been short listed in a competition to win up to £20,000 of funding from MoneySavingExpert.com. We've done incredibly well to get this far - there were over 600 entries and we're in the final twelve. We need you to vote for us www.moneysavingexpert.com/#vote now! The four charities with the most votes when the poll closes on Tuesday 22nd July will become MoneySavingExpert's chosen charities for the year.
We have helped a lot of the most popular charities mentioned MoneySavingExpert's short list (34 projects for the current top 5 in the poll and their associates) but we serve you and them rather than the public directly so we are not as well known as the other short listed charities in the MoneySavingExpert list.
If every one of our 5000+ volunteers voted for us we'd have a great chance of being in the top four. So please go to www.moneysavingexpert.com/#vote to vote for us NOW! No automation please, I know that it's a temptation if you know how but please resist it! On the other hand, do encourage your friends and colleagues to vote for us by passing this message on.
And if we win? We'll use the funding to define more projects, help more projects to completion and encourage more volunteering to help voluntary organisations with their IT needs. So everybody benefits!
We are still, of course, hunting for corporate sponsorship too so please get in touch if you can help here - or know someone who can. Leads are mostly what we need. We'll follow up.
John I. Davies iT4Communities Programme Director Mobile: +44 7736 798802 Phone: +44 20 7796 2144 Email: john@wcit.org.uk www.it4communities.org.uk "Introducing IT professionals wanting to volunteer their skills to charities needing IT help" Email: john@wcit.org.uk 39a Bartholomew Close, London EC1A 7JN iT4Communities is a programme of the Information Technologists Company, www.wcit.org.uk.
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