serenityplus/Ann (aka Charlotte) wrote:

1/ ...targeted mostly chain stores because they have multiple cash
registers, which means more cans, fewer stores to service;
2/ ...I'm fairly comfortable cold calling, but some people are not.
However, if you use a "script" it is much, much easier to feel
comfortable about picking up the phone.
3/... My merchants were largely super markets, independent markets,
drug chains, and books stores.

Hi Ann & list friends,

First I want to welcome you to the Parkinson Alliance. Good to have
your initiative, brain power and hard work. Since a lot of us are
"chickens" in making cold calls, would you post  your "script" and the
names & phone numbers of the contacts you made in the home offices of
your targets?  A few rudimentary lesson plans
in marketing, P/R and fundraising will be most helpful.

I have always wondered what careers are represented by our 1800
members? Just realized that we've doubled our numbers since the 900+,
that Patrick Martin was trying, so valiantly, to survey and provide
drug interactions, contr-indications, etc. So glad Patrick is still
interested in educating us about our body chemistry. I am really
looking forward to receiving the CD, Patrick!!

Don't worry gang, I am not proposing another survey! Though it would
be fun to know how many candlestick makers we have among us. What I am
hunting for, are the business savvy PWPs and Caregivers. Those who
have marketing, public relations, fundraising, grant writing skills
and legal,or accounting backgrounds. A few, high power CEO types
wouldn't hurt either! It has taken me two days to write a few
amateurish  posters, flyers and letters to prospective donors. And I
still am suffering trying to find the right fonts. This is good -- I
am learning new skills. Probably, though, I could better utilize my
ever shrinking window of productivity by doing other organizational
functions. Don't we have healthy daughters and sons who would be able
to knock off clever copy to dazzle the corporate world??

So, how about signing up for short term assignments? Anybody???

My area of expertise was in the social worker/counselor (the typical
liberal arts major scenerio of the mid 60s - oy, how long ago that
was!!

Please lets have a showing of hands, or at least send an email
volunteering your time, knowledge to give the rest of us a leg-up.

Mucho gracias,

Margaret Tuchman
Princeton, NJ
H (609) 921-1696
Fx(609) 921-1613
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-----Original Message-----
From: Parkinson's Information Exchange
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Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 7:04 PM
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Subject: Re: Spread the word/PENNIES FOR PARKINSONS


Hi,

I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I've been on the phone
soliciting mostly chain-store merchants for Pennies for Parkinsons to
accept the coin cans that I was able to order from a company in
Chicago. I targeted mostly chain stores because they have multiple
cash registers, which means more cans, fewer stores to service; I have
had to meet with some of the more faint hearted who want to see the
cans and some authentic literature, such as the brochures, but mostly
I've been able to get authorization over the phone, so that starting
this Friday when I receive the shipment of cans, I'll get the labels
on the cans and start distributing them to the stores.  So far, I'll
need 53 cans.  Some store managers are making donations or matching
donations instead of taking cans.  I'm fairly comfortable cold
calling, but some people are not.  However, if you use a "script" it
is much, much easier to feel comfortable about picking up the phone.
If anyone wants any help with scripts or info on getting cans (I also
found out how to make them out of mailing tubes and end caps), or
anything else, just e-mail me.
My merchants were largely super markets, independant markets, drug
chains, and books stores.  But the possibilities are endless.  Each
person has to do what they're comfortable with, and what makes sense
for them.  For me, it was lots of cans in fewer stores, and that meant
I had to have "real" coin cans so that they would take them. But many
smaller stores will take more hand made varieties with the Pen for
Park. label on them.  Do you all know about the labels and brochures?
Call Bill Turenne at 1-888-331-4673 at the Parkinson Alliance.  Sorry
if I'm repeating stuff everyone already knows or stating the obvious.

Also, the NPF can provide literature to put in libraries for education
during PD awareness month.  I'll be putting packets in three of our
libraries with a sign that they said they would allow me to display.

Good luck, Ann (aka Charlotte)
PWP, local support group volunteer,
and new member of the Parkinson Alliance
_________________

Jim Cordy wrote:
>
> I wish I knew what motivated people.  This prayer by Tutu is great.
There
> seems to be a couple postings on the list every day.  It has
involved people
> who do not regularily post.  I'm thrilled to see the positive
response of
> people all over one by one contacting their local media.  I hope to
learn
> from this burst of excitement on the list.  To learn what turns PWP
on
> (besides Sinemet).   I had sensed, apparently correctly from the
response to
> "spread the word", that there was a pent-up frustration among PWP.
Tapping
> into that energy source with a constructive nationwide campaign is
the goal
> of Pennies for Parkinson's program recently announced by the
Parkinson's
> Alliance.
>
> Pennies for Parkinson's has gotten off to a good start. I had been
hoping,
> and still do hope, that we will pick up the momentum that this
"spread the
> word" campaign has.  My fantasy vision of this grassroots
fund-raising
> campaign is like the old March of Dimes when I was a kid. Where
every school
> kid would be saving Pennies for Parkinson's to help grandma or
grandpop.
> If we could do that, do you know what that would mean?  Quite simply
we
> would cure Parkinson's and probably do it in the next five years
they.
>
> I want to cure Parkinson's and soon.  I want that with such
intensity that
> words can  not adequately discribe.  Furthermore, I know how to do
it -
> money.  Finding the cure for Parkinson's is not a bottomless pit
into which
> we pour money.  Its tantalizing the close.
>
> So my fellow list members, my brothers and sisters with Parkinson's,
share
> with me your thoughts.   Give me some feedback.  Tell me what needs
to be
> done in order to tap into that reservoir of energy that exists in
shaking or
> immobile bodies throughout this country and world. What can we learn
from
> this wonderful spiritual iniative that we can apply to motivate us
in a more
> pragmatic venue.  I want to hear from all of you, regular posters
and
> lurkers who have never posted, anyone who has an idea as to how we
light the
> fuse to this time bomb of energy so that we can blow Parkinson's
disease out
> of our lives.  That's the word I would like spread - that
Parkinson's is
> dead.