=¢$©$$~$¢~~ • ~ • ON TO .BETTER THINGS ... Our last financial statement appeared in RAIN, August/September 1978. At that time we showed a deficit of $1,272 for the preceding fiscal year and we published our statemerit as a plea for help. As a result of your generous response and a large promotional campaign (36,000 brochures were mailed out to individual names and entire lists supplied by subscribers and other friends) we are now on solid ground. This year's $8,864 balance of income of expe·nses is the final result. Of course, this should not be considered as extra cash or profit, since we have a substantial subscription obligation into 1982. , But this figure in the black is immensely reassuring to us. We can now consider such luxuries as increasing.staff salaries. RAIN continues to operate as a self-reliant enterprise, unsubsidized by grants or government funds, and committed to continuing a no advertising policy and a special living lightly subscription rate for those who are doing more with less. We are also pleased to tell you that RA/N's subscribers include many federal and state agencies, university and college libraries, people in foreign countries, and most importantly, grass roots people everywhere. All of which indicates a healthy state of the arts for alternative technologies and good dreamers. A very big thank you! You lift our spirits. -DG/PSD cont. Journal of Community Communication issue on networking), is a summary of some research done by Village Design of com.munipation patterns of community-based organizations in San Francisco, with descriptions of several formalized networks such as Briarpatch, Peoples Food System and the Community Coalitio_n. Linkage (clo Robert Theobald, P. 0. Box 2240, Wickenberg,AZ 85358) is a network convened by Theobald (as he did in 1971 with what I always called "the Theobald Net"), designed .(f FINANCIAL STATEMENT-THE RAIN UMBRELLA, INC. SEPTEMBER 1978 through AUGUST 1979 Income: Subscriptions Other Publications Booksto~es Donations Rainbook Royalties Consulting Postage & Billing Interest on Savings Misc. Total Income Expenses: Magazine Printing Typesetting Mailing Production & Layout Total Other Publications Rainbook & Stepping Stones Posters • Rainde~ Woodstove Guide Living Lightly Environmental Primer Royalties Total Promotion Brochures Campaign Total Office Rem Utilities Telephone J>ostage & Mailing Supplies • Printing Subscription to Publ. Weekly Misc. Total Salaries (Net) Payroll tax deductions Consulting _& Contributors' Fees Total Expenses _Balance: $33,978 15,215 2,581 822 579 175 641 54 126 $54,171 $ 6,630 1,433 1,774 382 10,219 2,823 687 1,241 411 215 195 80 5,652 1,704 1,279 2,983 2,650 746 1,608 3,352 638 533 33 405 9,965 13,515 1,840. 1,133 $45,307 $ 8,864 to be a formalized "invisible college. " Linkage is now.developing a kir d of employmentkonsulting mechanism for its members. The Open Network (P. 0. Box 18666, Denver, CO 80218) charges members $10/year, providing them with access to the Network News (where members may post announcements up to 100 words long), a library, and a computer for storing and retrieving network information. . techs," the one now operating is Legitech, an information exchange among state legislativr: assembly research staff members, who use EIES (Electronic Information Exchange System), a computer conferencing system, to share information.through a software program developed to handle inquiries and responses that circulate between members. Self De'termin;ation (P. 0. Box 126, Santa Clara, CA 95052) is, as they describe it, a "personal/political network." They are presently involved in publishing "Nex~us," a statewide resource directory listing individual and organizational skills, interests and resources. They publish a quarterly journal and develop "ad-hoc" networks and coalitions around critical public issues (currently, nuclear power): 1 The potential of the communication technology for revolutionizing an individual's capability through more, but specifically channeled information, by changing our working styles, and through facilitating a rkh fabric of potential connections between persons Participation Systems Inc. (43·Myrtle, Winchester, MA 01890) is developing a series of networks through providing specific services to members.· Calling all of the networks, "fJo.liPage 22 RAIN November 1979 and organizations, is what I will share in a subsequent article. ■
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