A lot of project expenses were funded by earlier donors, for example the legal costs to develop the constitutional amendment ONV is sponsoring, and consultants to help us vet the amendment far and wide.
Now, our most major expense this year by far is for signature collection. Even using volunteers for collection, each collected signature will need to be verified, at a cost of $1 each. We can't do the verification ourselves - it requires access to official signature files that we don't have.
That's a million dollars state-wide.
And, if we can't collect all the signatures we need with our volunteers, getting the rest of them with professional signature capture firms will cost $3 (or a lot more) per signature.
The state-wide budget for signature collection is $3,000,000 and Orange County is tasked with raising $300,000 of that. Please be as generous as you can. All contributions are welcome, of course, but we really need $100 -- more if you can do it. We'll report progress here on our site.
First, all funds donated will go straight to the treasury at Our Neighborhood Voices. Our local Orange County group is strictly volunteer, and self-funded.
Second, you can donate on-line with your credit card, or by check which you subsequently mail in (if you don't like to use your credit card on the Web). Like all "campaign" donations, you'll need to provide some personal information.
Note that, of course, there is no guarantee we will be successful, and no expectation whatever that any funds will be returned. We are almost certainly going to be outspent by such a wide margin that any left-over funds would mean we didn't market as hard as we should have.
If we can't raise enough money to go forward for the 2024 ballot, our funds will be retained for another shot at it. But our goal absolutely is to make this happen for 2024.
The Donate On-Line Button will take you to the Our Neighborhood Voices site to make your donation.
Before you go, please fill out our RLC Tracking form -- just your name -- or any you like! -- any E-Mail you like, e.g. bogus@aol.com and the amount. We're not being nosy - we just want to track fundraising against our goal.
Help us track how we're doing!
Donate on-line at Our Neighborhood Voices.
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