Category: WP-ORG

WP-ORG: WP-ORG kicks off fund drive #56 – 28 years and counting!

Dear WP-ORG Community,

We’re kicking off our 56th semi-annual fund drive (FD56) with a goal to raise $40,465, ensuring the continued operation of West-Point.ORG for the upcoming six months.

To contribute, you can donate online via this link: https://www.west-point.org/donate/. You can select your preferred payment method – credit/debit card, PayPal, check, or even stock donations. We believe in full transparency, so if you’d like to see the specifics of our budget, it’s available at https://www.west-point.org/budget/.

For the past 28 years, we’ve relied on your twice-yearly donations to keep WP-ORG running and serving the West Point community. Your contributions serve as a strong endorsement of the work we do. By keeping West Point grads, parents, cadets, and friends connected through email lists, websites, and other resources, we’ve been able to fulfill our mission. This approach has worked successfully for nearly three decades, and we’re confident that together we can make this fund drive a success as well.

Our goal is to continue offering the services you depend on, from dynamic WordPress-powered websites for clubs and societies to email listservs that keep everyone in touch. Your support has always been the key to helping us carry out our mission providing “an online communications infrastructure that enables graduates, parents, and friends of the military academy to maintain and strengthen the associations that bind us together”.

Please consider donating today:

Thank you for your continued trust and support!

Sincerely,
Warren Hearnes ’89
on behalf of WP-ORG Advisors

Cease work on WP-ORG FD55!

Cease work!

Thank you for your quick response to our 55th bi-annual fund drive request. In only seven days, our users pushed us past our goal! That is amazing.

WP-ORG is an organization created by graduates and parents that is completely independent of West Point and the Association of Graduates, and our goal is to serve the communication needs of graduates and West Point families. When we get to our fundraising goal this quickly, we know that we are accomplishing that mission. Thank you for your continued support!

Donation Report: https://secure.west-point.org/donate/report/

Sincerely,

Warren Hearnes ’89
for the WP-ORG Advisors

Fund Drive 55 Kickoff – please donate to WP-ORG!

WP-ORG members:

I’m proud to announce that WP-ORG is kicking off our 55th semi-annual fund drive with a goal of $39,822 that will help cover our costs over the next six months.

Fifty-five consecutive successful fund drives! I never would have anticipated this when we started WP-ORG in 1996 with the mission to provide an online communication infrastructure that enables graduates, parents, and friends of the military academy to maintain and strengthen the associations that bind us together. We continue to do semi-annual fund drives because we believe it helps keep us responsive to the needs of the community – if we’re not providing value, then we won’t meet the goal.

You’re receiving this email because you’re subscribed to one of the many lists that we host for academy grads, parents, and friends that help foster connection, community, and conversation. We provide our services free of charge and ask for donations from those who have found value in these conversations and are in a position to give. Thank you to all our past supporters that have helped us continue our mission for the past 28 years!

Instructions to donate by credit card, PayPal, check or stock donations: 
https://www.west-point.org/donate

Direct link to the credit card donation Site:
https://secure.west-point.org/donate

Donation report broken out by affiliation:
https://secure.west-point.org/donate/report

Sincerely,
Warren Hearnes ‘89
on behalf of WP-ORG Advisors

A Lifelong Connection

The mission of WP-ORG is to support communication between West Point graduates, societies and parent clubs, fostering connections that last a lifetime.

Today, I’m reaching out to ask for your support so that WP-ORG can continue in this mission.

To make a donation, please go to:  https://www.west-point.org/donate

West Point has produced leaders, warriors, and visionaries who have served our country with distinction. The bonds formed during the rigorous years at the academy are like no other, transcending time, distance, and challenges. These connections are the backbone of a network that multiplies the impact of West Point graduates on the world.

Your contribution to WP-ORG plays a crucial role in our efforts to support the Long Gray Line.

Through our various forums, we create opportunities for West Point classes, societies and parent clubs to connect with each other, helping to strengthen personal and professional relationships and create a supportive community. 

WP-ORG facilitates events and reunions by providing not only email listservs for communication and planning, but also by providing credit card sites to easily handle your event / reunion registration fees, etc.  The Class of 1968 recently celebrated their 55th reunion, and the assistance given us by WP-ORG was incomparable – and having 24/7 access to the reunion databases made reunion planning and coordination much easier.

On a personal note, I became affiliated with WP-ORG in 2000, when our older son entered West Point.  Despite being the spouse of a grad, it was clear Plebe-Net was my “lifeline to sanity” during the early days of Cadet Basic Training.  As my son (and subsequently sons) moved through West Point, I became a moderator on the Plebe Net and Parent Forum, becoming part of a large community of welcoming parents who shared common interests.  When my husband’s Class looked for more administrative assistance, I was “volunteered” to handle some of the logistics for his Class – a task that could not have been accomplished without the help of WP-ORG.  Now, as the members of the Class enter a different phase of their lives, they have started a “Caregiver Initiative” – again, utilizing the services of WP-ORG. Throughout the years, WP-ORG resources have kept us in touch with the hundreds of Class of ’68 grads who have lifted us up, cheered us on and just been there – The Long Gray Line – a lifelong connection. 

Your support will directly impact our ability to continue drawing the West Point community together and helping to keep the storied West Point network thriving and vibrant.

To make a donation, please visit https://www.west-point.org/donate.

Many thanks for your support!
Megan Hostler
WP-ORG Advisor

FD54 Donation Report: https://secure.west-point.org/donate/report
FD54 Budget: https://www.west-point.org/budget
WP-ORG Website: https://www.west-point.org