Cohousing-L Mailing List: Supporting CohoUS - looking for donations - read if even if you are not coming to Madison

[Liz Ryan Cole (lizryancole]

Hello everyone who reads this outstanding list.

Are you coming to Madison next week?  Excellent - you will easily be able to 
bid on some of donated items that will appear on the Silent Auction and the 
Live Auction 

But even if you are not coming, do consider making a donation to support cohoUS.

The entire list is developing nicely. BUT… it would be excellent if we had a 
few more items.  
Consider offering one of the guest rooms in your community (or your own home or 
vacation home). 
Perhaps you’d be happy to donate some advising time - an hour? Think if it as a 
chat with someone who is interested in what you do and know about.    Of course 
you can do this by Zoom
Some generous folks are donating a registration for an event they are 
organizing/running. Is this something you might be able to do?

We are happy to receive donations even if you are not going to be there. As an 
example, Anna Koloseike, an accomplished sculpture, and a dear friend, is going 
to donate some hand drafted tiles. (See this link if you don’t know Anna’s work 
yet https://www.riverartsdistrict.com/artist/anna-m-koloseike/ 
<https://www.riverartsdistrict.com/artist/anna-m-koloseike/>

WE will have pictures of the tiles at the auction and she will ship them to the 
winner bidder.

Not coming to the conference yourself?  We are not using a platform like 
Bidding For Good this year, but maybe you have a friend who is coming - ask 
them to bid for you. I do plan to post on the CohoUS website a list of all the 
items received by next Thursday.

So donate, bid, and come if you can!! 

liz

802.274.1511
Pinnacle Project, LLC


> On Aug 4, 2022, at 7:17 PM, Liz Ryan Cole <lizryancole [at] me.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Cohousing Friends - CohoUS needs money to help us accomplish our 
> mission. Selling donated goods or services, with the proceeds going to CohoUS 
> can be a very effective way to raise money. Do you and/or your community have 
> something to donate?  It might be something very specific to cohousing - as 
> one example, the amazing and very experienced Jim Leach (Wonderland Hill 
> Development Company) will donate TEN (10)! hours of development consulting 
> (especially useful for launching communities).  Or you might be something 
> that is helpful to your community - perhaps a night or two in a guest room 
> that would benefit people traveling and allow you to spread the word about 
> what wonderful homes you have?  Or it might be something not specific to 
> cohousing that you can contribute - are you a jewelry maker?  An artist in 
> wood? A photographer? 
> 
> We will prepare a table at the Madison Conference with visual displays 
> helping to promote your donation. We have the donated services of an 
> auctioneer for some of the items we might caution during the event. We are 
> also exploring use a service like 32 Auctions so we (and you) get a broader 
> audience.
> 
> Have an idea?  Get in touch with me, Liz Ryan Cole 802.274.1511 or 
> lizryancole [at] me.com <mailto:lizryancole [at] me.com>. THANK YOU!