Report - Finance Committee Jan. 2009

1.  Total donations for last yr. = $314,709.29 (This includes donations to and at IC08 totaling $17,152.62)

2.  466 donors in 2008

3.   Donations since the Dec. solicitation letter, up till now. = $61,420.00 between Dec 1, 08 and Jan 20, 09.

4.  Goal for 2009 is to raise $250K (not including Summer Study Session).  The plan here is to target email solicitation to our email list of over 2000 email addresses.

First campaign is to sponsor your favorite chapters in the UB. Our goal is to raise $100K to pay for the 10,000 Urantia Books we just received from Donnelley. There are 1429 chapters in the UB plus 197 lead in chapters for a total of 1626. At $70 per chapter we would recoup our cost of goods. This campaign may take a couple of years to complete and we will be emailing it out each month.

Second campaign is to sponsor a key word or phrase for internet optimization. We are working with IT to determine the appropriate words or phrases and will be running an email solicitation on their sponsorship.