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From: David.Andrews@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews)
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Subject: Re: Dialogue Magazine
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Date: 10 Jul 90 20:22:56 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

SB> Scuttlebut has it that we may have already received our last  
SB> issue of Dialogue Magazine.  The board met on June 11 and wants    
SB> to close it down.  Anyone else know more?   

I received a letter from Dialogue a week or so ago, an emergency
plea for money.  As you will remember, they almost went under in
1986, I believe it was, and were only saved by an Ann Landers
column plus grant from Clement Stone.  They offered me a
fund-raising job twice when I ran the Reading Service in Chicago,
but I wasn't interested.  They have never had a good professionally
run fund-raising effort, relying on the ond-boy system, Lions Clubs
etc.  With fund- raising competition getting so fierce, they most
professionalize their efforts and expand them also.  Unless they do
this they will eventually go under, even if they get another
emergency reprieve.  I had to raise approximately $250,000 a year
when in Chicago, and it is a tough way to make a living, but it can
be done.

David Andrews

... Your Sound Alternative

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