Fundraising for RC Projects
I recently attended the Fundraising for the Re-evaluation Foundation and RC Projects Workshop, led by Mike Markovits, President of the Re-evaluation Foundation.
I was inspired by Mike’s commitment to fundraising for RC: “I refuse to let money be the limiting factor for the growth of RC.”
We were twenty-five people from different class backgrounds—mostly from the United States but also from Trinidad and Tobago, England, and South Africa.
Mike shared information about where the Foundation’s money has been going. In 2018, nearly half of the $640,000 total went to support the development of RC in Africa. Mike did a demonstration in which a participant shared what a difference the Foundation’s support is making in people’s lives.
Developing RC in Africa has remained a priority, as has funding wide world RC projects such as Sustaining All Life. The Foundation also supports more than 110 other projects—from Korean liberation, to healing from war, to helping RCers who otherwise couldn’t afford it get Internet access.
We can work on the following (whether we are fundraisers or not):
- Our distresses about money
- Our earliest memory connected to money in any way at all
- Talking about RC and how important it has been in our lives
- Reaching for people who have more than they need
- Asking for what we want
I am currently formulating a fundraising plan for myself. The workshop put the fun back in fundraising!
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Reprinted from the RC e-mail discussion list for owning-class people
(Present Time 206, January 2022)