Subject: WP-ORG: FD51 starts today - please consider donating to support WP-ORG Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 20:59:01 -0400 From: Warren Hearnes Reply-To: feedback@west-point.org To: corps@west-point.org WP-ORG Members: Today marks the launch of our 51st semi-annual fund drive (FD51) with a goal of $55,296 to fund the operation of West-Point.ORG (WP-ORG) for the next six months. You may donate online at https://www.west-point.org/donate/ and choose the form you'd like to use - debit/credit card, PayPal, check, or stock donations. We strive to be transparent with our budget needs. For the next six months, we anticipate needing $55,296 - see https://www.west-point.org/budget/ for details. We're in our 26th year of this PBS-style fundraising approach and know that these "votes of confidence" with your donations twice each year keep us actively listening to your ideas and needs. If we provide value to the grads, parents, cadets, and friends of West Point by helping to keep them connected through classes, societies, clubs, and other organizations, then we will generate enough goodwill and donations to keep it going...and that has worked wonderfully for over 26 years! In the spirit of fulfilling our mission of 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", we provide services like state-of-the-art web pages powered by Wordpress to help clubs and societies disseminate information and email listserves to foster communication. Through the email lists, we send out almost 2 million email messages every month! To modernize our infrastructure, we've made significant progress in our migration to the cloud. We have daily off-sites backups to two separate cloud instances and are beginning to test out database and email services in our new environment. The goal of our volunteers is to make the transition seamless and invisible to our users once we make the final cut-over. We consider it a privilege to help this community stay connected and sincerely appreciate your support! Link to All Forms of Donation: https://www.west-point.org/donate/ Credit Card Donation Link: https://secure.west-point.org/donate/ Donation Report: https://secure.west-point.org/donate/report/ F51 Budget: https://www.west-point.org/budget/ Sincerely, Warren Hearnes '89 for WP-ORG Advisors