[mit-habitat-exec] Fundraising

[Oren Weinrib]

Hi,

I had the good fortune to have one of your chocolate-chip cookies in 
the infinite corridor a couple days ago.  After talking to one of your 
people, I learned that you are doing fundraising for a MIT Habitat 
house.  That's a great project, and I may be able to help!

After a few years of involvement with activism and art in Boston, I am 
creating an organization that will help make more resources available 
for those communities.  Specifically, we will help progressive groups 
on college campuses do fundraising for both local and international 
needs.  The fundraising project involves the resource of promotional 
textbooks, which faculty receive from publishers and occasionally sell 
off to freelance textbook buyers.  A rough estimate of the opportunity 
at MIT is around $100-200 thousand.  My mission is threefold: first, 
empowering progressives on campus to take advantage of an existing 
resource and marshall it for progressive ends; second, creating an 
organization that provides progressive employment to Boston-area 
artists and activists, and third, using the campus resource as a way to 
bridge campus and community activists.

I would like to collaborate with you on a project that fits your needs. 
  We would solicit faculty donations of textbooks for the MIT Habitat 
house.  For instance, one department could be targeted with a limited 
investment of time and yield around $5-10 thousand.  This could be 
scaled up as appropriate to your resources.

Please contact me with any ideas and questions.  I look forward to 
speaking with you further.

Happy spring,
Oren Weinrib
617-359-4742
oren at post.harvard.edu