Another Important Year for the website
2009

   This website is run by community volunteers under the New York State not-for-profit guidelines. Sponsors pay $100 annually to keep the site operating. During the "First 10 Days of May" we solicit our visitors to donate to our annual fundraising campaign. Our goal from the beginning in March of 1998 was to obtain and maintain roughly 40 sponsors. This would keep us well under our $5000 not-for-profit cap, which eliminates a ton of paperwork every year. We have never had that problem over the last ten years: our best year was $2700. It takes 12 sponsors just to exist on the web and another couple for office supplies and the PO Box. The webmaster gets funding twice a year for computer hardware and software upgrades. With our current number of sponsors and donors, this pretty much drains our resources by the end of the fiscal year.

   Every year in the past we seem to gain a couple and lose a couple sponsors. This year we are going to put a larger emphasis on gaining more sponsors. Our goal is to spend some funding on computer hardware and software upgrades for our lead writers. This does not seem to be too much to ask!

   So if you have contemplated donating before, this would be the perfect year while we try to build our sponsor base. Also please encourage area businesses to become sponsors of this popular website. We not only serve our local area, but those in uniform around the world, college students, snowbirds and many who relocated but still hold Caledonia-Mumford dear to their hearts. This is the Caledonia-Mumford community website and we need the community to support us. Thank You.