{"id":239,"date":"2005-10-27T05:11:44","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T09:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2005\/10\/27\/how-to-hold-really-big-fundraisers\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T05:11:44","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T09:11:44","slug":"how-to-hold-really-big-fundraisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2005\/10\/27\/how-to-hold-really-big-fundraisers\/","title":{"rendered":"How to hold really big fundraisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1124'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 1 : Throw a party.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2 : Make it really, really big.&nbsp; 10,000 people?&nbsp; Almost there.<\/p>\n<p>Step 3 : Don&#8217;t hold back.&nbsp; Invite everyone;&nbsp; make it a spectacle of an event.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Step 4 : Only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itu.int\/wsis\/funding\/campaign.html\">ask for 1\/3 of the total cost<\/a> of the event from the world<br \/>\nat large.&nbsp; If this doesn&#8217;t come to a few million dollars, you&#8217;ve<br \/>\ndone something wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Step 5 : Put up a nice progress bar on your website to show people how well fundraising is going.<\/p>\n<p>I guess it helps if you&#8217;re a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UN\">major international body<\/a> working towards the peaceful betterment of mankind.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/wsis\/list_by_author\">WSIS I reflections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/topics.developmentgateway.org\/special\/informationsociety\/template10.do<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/topics.developmentgateway.org\/special\/informationsociety<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.itu.int\/wsis\/funding\/campaign.html'>How to hold really big fundraisers &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1 : Throw a party. Step 2 : Make it really, really big.&nbsp; 10,000 people?&nbsp; Almost there. Step 3 : Don&#8217;t hold back.&nbsp; Invite everyone;&nbsp; make it a spectacle of an event.&nbsp; Step 4 : Only ask for 1\/3 of the total cost of the event from the world at large.&nbsp; If this doesn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-3R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}