Santa Fe Complex Fundraising Glitches

[Don Begley]

I understand some folks have not been able to donate to the complex  
because of glitches on our site, www.sfcomplex.org/zen-cart. I worked  
on the site and, hopefully, made donations easier.

When you are ready to checkout, please choose the PayPal button  
regardless of whether you have a PayPal account. (Our PayPal merchant  
account lets you use your VISA, MasterCard, Amex or Discover card  
without your own PayPal account.) You should see a screen divided in  
two vertically. The right side is for PayPal account login. The left  
side leads to a standard credit card processing page. Choose it and  
you're on your way.

Thanks to everyone who succeeded in making a contribution. We've  
raised approximately $2500 so far, thanks to their generosity. We need  
another $10k in the next 10 days to pay current expenses, so we  
greatly appreciate any additional help those of you on this list can  
offer.

We are beginning an institutional fund-raising program and have had  
very positive responses so far. The difficulty we face is coordinating  
our cash flow with the grant cycles of these institutions--in plainer  
English, that means we have to meet our expenses while we apply for  
and receive institutional support. Santa Fe helped us start this  
process with the city's $29,000 personal services agreement. As Nick  
noted, we have to raise $20,000 ourselves to get all of that grant. We  
also have to demonstrate our ability to raise funds before we can  
receive further city grants. Thus, we have an additional incentive in  
our short-term fundraising effort, which is to complete our agreement  
with the city.

Your help is the key to our short-term needs and long-term success.  
FRIAM is the intellectual godfather of Santa Fe Complex. One of our  
main goals is to create a virtual space where FRIAMers around the  
world can see what happens here and participate in it. Your  
contribution today will help us all move towards that goal.

Which leads to the ask, as they say in fundraising. Click here to go  
to our donations site and make your contribution. If you have any  
difficulties, please call me.


---
Don Begley
Managing Director
Santa Fe Complex
624 Agua Fria
Santa Fe, NM 87501

www.santafecomplex.org
505-216-7562
505.670.9432 (cell)






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[George Duncan-2]

Don,

I tried to donate $50 on my credit card. Got all the way to the end, and it
says "sorry we don't offer that support level".

George

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Don Begley <DonBegley at jjwalker.biz> wrote:

> I understand some folks have not been able to donate to the complex because
> of glitches on our site, www.sfcomplex.org/zen-cart. I worked on the site
> and, hopefully, made donations easier.
> When you are ready to checkout, please choose the PayPal button regardless
> of whether you have a PayPal account. (Our PayPal merchant account lets you
> use your VISA, MasterCard, Amex or Discover card without your own PayPal
> account.) You should see a screen divided in two vertically. The right side
> is for PayPal account login. The left side leads to a standard credit card
> processing page. Choose it and you're on your way.
>
> Thanks to everyone who succeeded in making a contribution. We've raised
> approximately $2500 so far, thanks to their generosity. We need another $10k
> in the next 10 days to pay current expenses, so we greatly appreciate any
> additional help those of you on this list can offer.
>
> We are beginning an institutional fund-raising program and have had very
> positive responses so far. The difficulty we face is coordinating our cash
> flow with the grant cycles of these institutions--in plainer English, that
> means we have to meet our expenses while we apply for and
> receive institutional support. Santa Fe helped us start this process with
> the city's $29,000 personal services agreement. As Nick noted, we have to
> raise $20,000 ourselves to get all of that grant. We also have to
> demonstrate our ability to raise funds before we can receive further city
> grants. Thus, we have an additional incentive in our short-term fundraising
> effort, which is to complete our agreement with the city.
>
> Your help is the key to our short-term needs and long-term success. FRIAM
> is the intellectual godfather of Santa Fe Complex. One of our main goals is
> to create a virtual space where FRIAMers around the world can see what
> happens here and participate in it. Your contribution today will help us all
> move towards that goal.
>
> Which leads to the ask, as they say in fundraising. Click here<http://www.sfcomplex.org/zen-cart> to
> go to our donations site and make your contribution. If you have any
> difficulties, please call me.
>
>
>     ---
> Don Begley
> Managing Director
> Santa Fe Complex
> 624 Agua Fria
> Santa Fe, NM 87501
>
> www.santafecomplex.org
> 505-216-7562
> 505.670.9432 (cell)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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--
George T. Duncan
Professor of Statistics, Emeritus
Heinz School of Public Policy and Management
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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[Don Begley]

On Jun 27, 2008, at 4:07 PM, George Duncan wrote:

> Don,
>
> I tried to donate $50 on my credit card. Got all the way to the end,  
> and it says "sorry we don't offer that support level".
>
> George
>
>

Thanks for the note, George. I flipped some switches and made some  
screen shots from the $50 educational sponsor level. (I also tested it  
for the $50 web affiliate in case that was the one you selected. These  
are low-res screen shots so let me know if a higher resolution is  
better.) Hopefully this will help.

1. Select the Paypal button in the shopping cart
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2. Select the continue checkout option on the left hand column if you  
don't want to use Paypal.
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The rest is straight-forward. Here are the screenshots.
3. Fill in the form and click review to continue.
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4. Click continue if all is well.
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