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December 23, 2009
First Time Ever Holiday Appeal for the RCPP
Dear Friends,
It is difficult to to this, but I feel like I have no alternative. As may know it has been many years since the Real Cost of Prisons Project received any funding. The cost of mailing comic books to prisoners (usually around fifteen per week at $1.52 per set for postage), larger quantities to organizers, literacy projects, community groups organizing against new prisons, books through bars projects, etc., paying for the hosting of the website (www.realcostofprisons.org) and this blog are all borne by me and my spouse. All of the work I do is unpaid. At this point I am collecting social security having turned 62 but social security is not enough and the RCPP has become a major drain on our finances.
If you use the comic books (more than 120,000 have been sent, the website, this news blog, or have asked for and received information and requests for connections to others doing similar work, I ask you to consider making a tax deductible donation to keep the RCPP going.
Any amount would be helpful and greatly appreciated.
Donations can be made through https://www.networkforgood.org/donation/ExpressDonation.aspx?ORGID2=912114465
If you prefer, a check can be sent to:
Community Futures Collective
221 Idora Ave
Vallejo, CA 94591
Please write RCPP in the memo line.
If you know of others who might want to support the RCPP, please forward this to them.
Many thanks!
Posted by lois at December 23, 2009 11:14 AM