<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3">Good afternoon,</font></div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"> </font></div>
<div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"> You could provide an ability for starving students, retirees, and ordinary peoples to contribute to the Foundation. What is needed for an individual to go to a web site and arrange for $5.00/month to be taken out of her checking account. </font></div><div><span style="font-family: garamond, "new york", times, serif; font-size: medium;"> Hopefully a large number will join; this would give the Foundation a lot of credibility.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family: garamond, "new york", times, serif; font-size: medium;"><br></span></div>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"> Administratively one would need a 401(c) entity in the US so we could deduct our contributions.</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"> You could say all these contributions will go directly to increasing the Foundation’s endowment or to paid research/documentation/… </font></p>
<div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"> Use the contributions from big entities to pay for administration. That way individuals can feel that their money is being used productively. (I am told that the Red Cross does this for disaster relief: 100% of the contributions for a specific disaster go towards the victims -nothing to overhead.</font></div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"> It would be nice if there was a huge flood of cash from the base.</font></div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3">Thank you for your attention,</font></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><font face="garamond, new york, times, serif" size="3">-Carlton Mills, Urbana, IL</font></div></div></body></html>