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Give!Guide is now LIVE!
Today marks the beginning of Willamette Week‘s 2010 Give!Guide. So many great nonprofits to give to. Donate now and support Literary Arts!
Give early (in the next few days!) to get tickets to Bill Byrson, whose appearance on stage at the Schnitz is only a week away, on Thursday, Novemeber 18th!
There are two (2) ways to get Bryson tickets:
1) Donate $750 or more to Literary Arts through the Give!Guide and get a great Bill Bryson package: two premium tickets to Bill Bryson on November 18, 2010, a signed copy of At Home, a complimentary one-night stay at The Heathman Hotel, as well as two seats at a special dinner with Bill Bryson at Bluehour after the event! Only one (1) of these incentives is available.
2) Donate $250 and get two premium tickets to see Bill Bryson on November 18th at the Schnitz! Only two (2) pairs are available!
Good luck, and have fun!
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What Your Contribution Means
As a supporter of Literary Arts, you may wonder how your individual donation helps our cause. Donations impact our various programs and fellowships and they are fundamental to every aspect of achieving our goal.
Sixty percent of our total budget is from contributions. If it were not for your gifts, we would be half of what we are today.
Our programs reach readers and writers on many different levels and every single donation from $10 to $500 has a very definite impact.
Here are some examples of how your contribution helps:
- $15 covers the postage and envelopes to mail awards to Oregon Literary Fellowship recipients.
- $35 sends a box of poetry or books across the country to be judged for the Oregon Book Awards.
- $45 supports an hour of one-on-one writing skills mentoring.
- $75 sponsors one student for Writers in the Schools.
- $100 would provide free copies of the Writers in the Schools Student Anthology to featured students, so they can see their work in print.
- $1000 is enough to send a local writer into a Portland Public Schools classroom for a whole semester; or help an emerging Oregon writer fund the business of conducting research, completing a manuscript, and finding a publisher.
From providing books for Writers in the Schools students, to reserving hotels for touring authors, your donation ensures that Literary Arts can continue to bring literature and literacy to Oregon for another 25 years.
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Your donation is tax-deductible!
Don’t forget that your donation to Literary Arts in the Give!Guide is tax -deductible.
Who likes to pay more on their income taxes?
No one.
There’s no better way to lower your income tax than to give to Literary Arts during the Give!Guide. We’re sure you’ll be happy and merry during the holiday season knowing you gave to our fantastic organization and lowered your income taxes at the same time.
Hooray for filling out those tax forms in April! Wait…
At least you know your Literary Arts donation is deductible. Smile for that.
Good day.
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Poetry in Motion
Poetry in Motion is one way Literary Arts makes its voice heard in and around Portland everyday.
If you’ve ever seen those poems on Trimet buses and Max train, you’ve seen our work. For over 10 years, Poetry in Motion has brought poetry to the public while on their daily commute.
Many of the poems on Portland buses and trains are from Oregon poets, who we are honored to support.
Your donation will help keep this program going and nurture Oregon poetry for years to come.
Check out our website for past poems and more information on Poetry in Motion.
http://www.literary-arts.org/pim/
Tags: Literary Arts, Poetry in Motion, Trimet
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Special incentive – get a free pair of tickets to see Greg Mortenson or The Moth!
Looking for tickets to the sold out Greg Mortenson event on Dec. 14? Desperate to see The Moth perform on Jan. 18? Now’s your chance!
Donate $120 or more through Willamette Week’s Give!Guide and get a free pair of tickets to see Greg Mortenson or The Moth (based on availability).
Remember, your donation is also tax deductible!
UPDATE (12/14): There are no longer tickets available for Greg Mortenson nor The Moth. These events are sold-out, and we have run out of the tickets set aside for the Give!Guide campaign. Thank you to everyone who has contributed so far!
Tags: Greg Mortenson, incentives, The Moth, Tickets
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Literary Arts Give!Guide Social Media Contests
For those of you who haven’t heard the news yet, Literary Arts is having a number of contests through Facebook and Twitter to raise awareness of the Give!Guide!
So even though you may have missed the first week, the contests will continue throughout the duration of the Give!Guide. If you have a Facebook or Twitter account make sure to start following us for the chance to win some awesome prizes!
This week:
Tuesday, November 24th: Twitter Challenge for two signed copoes of In Persuasion Nation
Wednesday, November 25th: Facebook Challenge for two single Delve tickets
Friday, November 27th: Twitter Timely Challenge for PA&L series tickets
The following weeks:
Tuesday, December 1st: Twitter Challenge for two signed copies of The Brooklyn Follies
Wednesday, December 2nd: Facebook Challenge for two signed copies of Resistance
Friday, December 4th: Twitter Timely Challenge for PA&L series tickets
Tuesday, December 8th: Twitter Challenge for two signed copies of For the Confederate Dead
Tuesday, December 15th: Twitter Challenge for two signed copies of Man and Camel
Friday, December 18th: Twitter Timely Challenge for PA&L series tickets
Tuesday, December 22nd: Twitter Challenge for two signed copies of Ego & Hubris
Tuesday, December 29th: Twitter Challenge for two signed copies of Dress Your Family in Corduroy & Denim
Tags: Contests, Give!Guide, Social Media
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Hot off the presses, the 2009 Writers in the Schools Anthology
Literary Arts is thrilled to be participating in the Give!Guide again this year. We’re only a few days in and have already raised over $1,000! All thanks to you.
Just a reminder, if you make a donation to Literary Arts through the Give!Guide you’ll receive a brand new copy of the 2009 Writers in the Schools Anthology as our thanks to you.
You can also find the WITS Anthology at these local book stores:
- Annie Bloom’s Books
- Broadway Books
- In Other Words
- Looking Glass Books
- Powell’s Books
- Powell’s Books on Hawthorne
- Reading Frenzy
- St. Johns Booksellers
- Twenty-Third Avenue Books
The new anthologies arrived just last week and look great. They feature some truly fantastic work from the Writers in the Schools students.
Have you received your anthology already? Have an experience to share? We want to hear your stories! Leave a comment here and join the conversation.
Tags: incentives, WITS
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The 2009 Give!Guide Launches Today!
Don’t forget to grab the Willamette Week today to get your copy of the 2009 Give!Guide. If you need help finding your nearest copy of the Willamette Week, you can use this handy map.
Donate as little as $10 if you like, but the fun starts at $25, when you become eligible for some great incentives from Willamette Week. Additionally, Literary Arts is also offering extra incentives as a thank you for donating.
To kick-off the 2009 Give!Guide in style, Literary Arts is pleased to give away two pairs of tickets to see Al Gore on November 18 at the Keller Auditorium. To win, simply make a donation to Literary Arts through the Give!Guide. The largest donors on Wednesday (Nov. 11) and Thursday (Nov. 12) will each receive a pair of tickets to Al Gore.
If you’ve won, we’ll contact you within a few days, once we’ve received the official numbers from the Give!Guide staff.
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Donation Incentives for the 2010 Give!Guide
In addition to the wonderful incentives offered by the Give!Guide, Literary Arts has gathered an array of gifts for you to enjoy as a thank you for your donation:
[Donor Incentives]
Two tickets to see THE MOTH on February 17th, as well as two VIP passes to a private party with THE MOTH performers! Only two (24) pairs are available! GONE!
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Eat dinner with TRACY KIDDER! Donate Here!
Donate $500 to Literary Arts through the Give!Guide and get two tickets to the Tracy Kidder lecture at the Schnitz on March 3, 2011, as well as two seats at a special dinner with Kidder at Tin House afterward AND a one-night stay at the Heathman Hotel! Only one of these incentives is available. GONE!
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Eat dinner with ART SPIEGELMAN! Donate Here!
Donate $500 to Literary Arts through the Give!Guide and get two tickets to the Art Spiegelman lecture at the Schnitz on April 28, 2011, as well as two seats at a special dinner with Spiegelman afterward AND a one-night stay at the Heathman Hotel! Only one of these incentives is available.
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Stay at the HEATHMAN! Have a private WINE TASTING party! Meet JON RAYMOND!
Donate $200 (up to $499) to Literary Arts through the Give!Guide and choose between the following incentives:
- A complimentary one-night stay at The Heathman Hotel in downtown Portland. Only 20 of these incentives are left!
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- Two premium tickets to see Bill Bryson on November 18th at the Schnitz! Only two (2) pairs are available! GONE!
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- A private wine tasting party for you and seven guests at Et Fille Wines! Only two (2) ONE (1) of these incentives is left!
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- Jon Raymond, author of Livability, will visit your private book club while you read the book. Only one (1) of these incentives is available!
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- A pair of spots in a Delve seminar (based on availability). GONE!
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Get a SIGNED BOOK!
Donate $50 (up to $199) to Literary Arts through the Give! Guide and choose one (1) of the following books:
- A signed hardback copy of Isabel Allende’s Island Beneath the Sea (9 available).
- A signed paperback copy of Margaret Atwood’s Year of the Flood (5 4 3 available).
- A signed paperback copy of Molly Gloss’s The Jump-Off Creek (5 available).
- A signed hardback copy of Barry Lopez’s Resistance (5 available).
- A signed hardback copy of Leslie Marmon Silko’s The Turquoise Ledge (5 available).
- A signed hardcover copy of Stones Into Schools by Greg Mortenson (7 available).
- A signed paperback copy of Will Shortz’s Crosswords for 365 Days (3 available).
- A signed paperback copy of A Plea For Eros by Siri Hustvedt (3 available).
- A signed hardcover copy of When Your Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris (2 available).
- A signed hardcover copy of Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills (2 available).
- Al Gore’s Our Choice in paperback (10 available).
- Scott Turow’s Limitations in paperback (10 available).
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Furthermore, if you donate at least $50 through the Give! Guide, Willamette Week will give you an array of items!
If you give $50 – $99.99 to any of the nonprofits included in the Give!Guide, you’ll get a postcard containing a batch of coupons.
Gifts of $100 – $499 result in a separate postcard with better goodies.
Next, if you’re 35 or under and give the $10 minimum, you’re automatically entered in a drawing for all manner of goodies including a check from Willamette Week for $500.
At $500, there’s home delivery of a nice, recyclable New Seasons grocery bag containing a bottle of A to Z Wineworks finest, a 12-ounce bag of freshly roasted Stumptown coffee beans, tea from Smith Tea, and a 22-ounce Widmer beer. A $1,000 donation ups the wine component — to Rex Hill Reserve Pinot Noir and adds some fancy Moonstruck chocolate. At $2,500 or more the wine and chocolate get better, and you get one of Willamette Week‘s owners — Publisher Richard Meeker or Editor Mark Zusman — at your door with a further enhanced shopping bag.
Finally, there are incentives for the nonprofits, too. Whichever one attracts the greatest number of contributions from donors under the age of 36 will get a $1,000 check from Willamette Week. The same holds for the nonprofit that raises the most money through this years Give!Guide. (Only one prize per nonprofit.)
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Throughout the campaign, be sure to follow Literary Arts on Twitter and Facebook for more details on how to score some of these great gifts. We’ll also be giving away books as special social media perks, so stay tuned!
Questions? Call Evan P Schneider at 503-227-2583, or email at evan [at] literary-arts [dot] org.
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