Donation Request Letter

Hey everyone!

Salena has recently created a new best practices document that we can all use. It's based on a real donation request that she made to support the UCP Texas Access Housing project. This can be used to solicit individuals or organizations for specific donations. Enjoy! Simply cut, paste and save it as a word document.


DATE



LETTER RECIPIANT
ADDRESS 1
ADDRESS 2
CITY, STATE ZIP

RECIPIANT NAME:

YOUR ORGANIZATION program is working to develop an online searchable housing resource for people with disabilities. We are currently in the process of recruiting eight VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) team members to spend eight weeks this summer conducting surveys of local apartment communities for their accessibility features for people with disabilities. EDIT TO SPECIFIC DONATION REQUEST Team members will be using public transportation to travel to each different apartment community to orient them to the usefulness of public transportation in Austin – often the only mode of transportation available for people with disabilities.

Please accept this letter as our request to DONOR to provide EDIT TO SPECIFIC REQUEST the Capitol Metro passes that will enable these eight new team members to travel around Austin for the weeks of June 23rd to August 15th. Your generous contribution of $160.00 in bus passes and will go a long way in our continued development of the Access Housing program.

We plan to have our housing resource online sometime this fall and a contribution from DONOR will directly affect our ability to provide this resource for low income people with disabilities looking for housing in the Austin area.

United Cerebral Palsy of Texas, Inc. (UCP Texas) is a private, non-profit organization (Tax ID # 74-1364723) and member of a national network of over 100 affiliates that provides direct services and advocacy on behalf of individuals with disabilities. UCP Texas offers a unique array of programs and services designed for one specific purpose: to ensure that people with disabilities have the opportunity to participate fully and equally in every aspect of our society.

Thank you for your consideration. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me by phone ###-###-#### or by email, ENTER EMAIL



Sincerely,

NAME

Housing Web Resources

Hey Guys,

I created a spreadsheet on google docs and shared with everyone (i think) called
helpful housing links.

You can make changes by using google docs and the changes will automatically show up on the document web link.

Please share any websites that you know of that have useful housing information. If there are other resources you would like us to share please let me know and I will try to create something.

Salena

Good Idea

Count me in!

Would you use this site?

What is the likelihood that you guys will use this site to communicate with each other in a non formal way. This would not be taking the place of the monthly VISTA meetings. This would be a separate space for questions or comments about what people are doing at their sites. I think what we would want to use this for would be up to us. Whether this is something that we use to keep us connected as far as getting help on our projects or if this is just a fun way for us to keep in touch and stay connected with each other since we dont see each other is for the group to decide.

Some ideas for how to use this blog:
1. post links to websites with good info
2. post links to interesting articles
3. sound off
4. silly fun things