Page 22. RAIN October 1977 Fundraising in the Public Interest, David Grubb and David Zwick, 1977, $4.50 from: Public Citizen Box 19404 Washington, DC 20036 Here's a good how-to based on experience for three different kinds of citizen fundraising efforts: direct mail, door-to·door canvassing, and assorted maratho'ns (bikathons and walkathons). It includes model letters, ads, petitions' and the like. A good resource if you're considering any of these methods of raising money for your organization or project. -LdeM. ' Doing It ~blishing Don't I remember you listed the Do It Now Foundation at some point? (Yes,· just looked it up-Tom Ferguson in your June issue.) Don'.t know if you've seen their How to Publish Community Information on an Incredibly Tight Budget. It's very good-covers the spectrum from offset to stencil, tools, mailing info, copyright, buying paperthe whole schtick-in an easy-t0-understand, low-key, non-romantic way. I learned an amazing (embarrassing!) amount in a flash-22 pages. You could do it now after reading this. It's 50¢ from Do It Now Foundati~n, Institute for Chemical Survival, P.O. Box 5115, Phoenix, AZ 85010, and worthy of a RAIN drop. Love to you all, Nancy ,Bell Coe INSIDE/OUTSIDE Prison Ashram Program We now have the correct address for the Inside/Outside Prison Ashram Project reviewed in the August/September 'RAIN (Vol. Ill, No. 10, p. 12): Inside/Outside Prison Ashram Project P.O. Box 39 Nederland, CO 80466 CORRECTION: The "Electronic Nike" logo of the Women's Communication Coalition's VidN Festival on page 24 of the August/September issue was designed by Elba Sanchez. Takin_g Charge, by the Simple Living Collective of the San Francisco American Friends Service Committee, 1977, $1.95 from: Bantam Books 666 Fifth Ave. . New York, NY 10019 For study groups and the intellectuals among you, here's a useful book for "personal and political change through simple living." Each chapter on consumption, work, community, creative simplicity, etc. is laid out with a philosophical introduction, facts and figures, ideas for action, resources,.and often study group questions. The Quakers • have always worked towards simplicity and cooperative fellowship-this book is bounded strongly in that tradition. -LdeM Public Scholars Research Bank P.O. Box 19367 Washington, DC 20036 It always disturbed me in college to be writing papers that were only read by my professor. Here's a group that is trying to make it possible for academic papers and general research to be more useful and relevant to a broader community. They're operating a clearinghouse of topics of research needed by community groups. They]l also he~ network the materials and research that are passed on to them. Their cat,p.log of 112 proposals can be had for $3.50. If you as a public interest group have some research needs, be sure to let them know-there's b.~und to be ari enterprising student ready to help out. Hopefully, this service will be well _used. . -LdeM Strategies for Access to Public Service Advertising, Glenn Hirsch and Alan Lewis, 1976, $3 from: Public Media Center 2751 Hyde Street San Francisco, CA 94109 Those air waves belong to us, remember? The Public Media Center has put together a thorough step-by-step guide for how to gain access to the broadcast media through free "public service announcements." How to create ads, d·eal with stations, implicat:ions of the"Fairness Doctrine," what your rights are, how to get firm with recalcitrant sta-- tions, and what can be achiefed with PSAs. Hmmm ... how about an ad against ads? -TB No Bosses Here: A Manual on Working Collectively, Vocations for Social Change, 1976, $3 from: Voq1tions for Social Change 3 5 3 Broadway • Cambridge, MA (i)2139 I've had this book on my pile for some time because I've been meaning to do a longer piece on t~e process of alternative groups working together. I really think that how we do it is as important ·' as-maybe even more important thanall the wonderful hardware technologies we are developing. We've got to learn to live our alternatives. This book deals with many of the ups and downs of nowhierarchical, worker-controlled .organizations. It doesn't really have any answers (it couldn't-we have to each work it out for our o,.tn situations), but it provides lots o_f first-hand exampJes and some valuable insjghts on the joyful moments and painful predica- ' ments. I found it very helpful in looking at various collective groups I have been involved with. Anybody know of other such books? -LdeM
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