1 Apr 2004 21:34
H-Net fundraising campaign
Kenneth S Nolley <knolley <at> WILLAMETTE.EDU>
2004-04-01 19:34:21 GMT
2004-04-01 19:34:21 GMT
Dear H-Film Subcribers, H-Film has been running now for over a decade after it began under the guidance and dedicated care of Steve Mintz in 1993. I joined Steve in doing moderating in 1995 and we were subsequently joined by Pat Aufderheide. When first Steve and then Pat left off moderating duties in the face of other responsibilities, I was fortunate to gain the able and dedicated collaboration of both Darryl Wiggers and Rebecca Bell-Metereau. The ongoing discussion space both for larger issues and for the nitty-gritty details of film scholarship has meant a good deal to many of us over the years. Probably many people in H-Film understand that we are a part of a large network of scholarly discussion groups in the H-Net family of lists that is managed out of Michigan State University. Indeed, the total number of lists is now about 140 with a total subscriber list of over 150,000. Indeed, our posts on H-Film normally go out to about 1000 subscribers in a wide variety of countries round the world. But an operation of this size is a significant undertaking, and the H-Net budget to support it now runs to about $200,000 annually. The H-Net Council has developed a multi-pronged fundraising strategy that includes charging for advertisements on the job guide, buy-throughs to on-line booksellers off the website and periodic direct appeals to our subscribers for donations. This week, H-Net is conducting a fund-raising campaign in hopes of raising $50,000 toward that annual budget. There are no plans to charge for H-Net; rather, there is a deep and abiding commitment to keep it free. But(and for our American subscribers I know that this sounds more than a bit like a PBS pledge break)it will be(Continue reading)
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