This discussion was written for the Libertarian Party, but works equally well for any other third party. Spending A Dollar’s Worth of Nickels to Make A Dime It’s important that we use our fundraising dollars as efficiently and profitably as possible. Taking a lukewarm profit as “the best we can do” is almost as bad as taking a loss. A…
Posts published in January 2023
Never Waste An Opportunity With only a few exceptions, every fundraising event should offer an opportunity for outreach, whether to affinity groups, new members or lapsed members. Likewise, fundraising at an outreach event can be as simple as putting out cards or envelopes for donations or as elaborate as a dinner or excursion. Joint fundraising events with affinity groups and…
There have been claims that LNC fundraising and membership retention are well down. I have previously written, in various places, that these claims were untrue. Matters have changed. For most of this year, membership renewals were in the range 550 to not quite 1100. In each of the last two months, membership renewals were under four hundred, namely 360 and…
Fundraising and Outreach Without money and people, the Libertarian Party will die, no matter how appealing or persuasive its political ideology. The good news is that people tend to give of themselves, both in terms of money and time, if they find something worth supporting. Given the number of Libertarian candidates and issues finding their ways onto more and more…
The LNC should ask people to give the Party money. How should the money be handled? First, spend more and more of the LNC’s money on doing real politics. The quick fixes mentioned above are going to free up very substantial chunks of change, though less than they would have, a few years ago. That money will be going into…
You can’t buy a voter base. You have to earn one. We can earn a voter base if we: ● consistently put our name and stands before the public, ● run good candidates, ● give candidates solid support, ● sell the electorate on our answers to their problems, and ● deliver excellent performance when elected. ● Above all, we gain…