The Big Idea needs your help
2009 has been a tough financial year for The Big Idea. With very little public funding, we built a whole new website with great new tools. We also continued to deliver the content and services that the creative community loves and needs.
As with many projects no matter how tightly you manage them, there are cost overruns and we now need financial support from the community to help meet those costs.
We’re working hard to clear an internal debt of $20,000 that is the shortfall on the cost of rebuilding The Big Idea.
We’d like to start the new financial year on 1 July with the debt cleared. Can you help us to do that?
We reckon that if everyone who uses The Big Idea contributed the price of a coffee before 30 June, we’d get there. To make it easy, The Big Idea is registered with Givealittle, a great online fundraising tool made in New Zealand.
So if you think The Big Idea is a good idea, then please give here.
Elisabeth Vaneveld
Executive Director
The Big Idea Trust - Te Aria Nui
For those of you who would prefer to give a little via internet banking, our details are:
Account Name: The Big Idea Te Aria Nui Charitable Trust
Account Number: 12 3011 0837133 00
To enable us to identify your payment please quote this information -
Particulars: Givealittle
Code: your name (optional)
Reference: your reference (optional)
About The Big Idea
The Big Idea | Te Aria Nui is the online home of NZ’s creative community offering job listings, industry information, news, tools, profiles, forums, networking spaces, market-places and much more.
The Big Idea is now in its eighth year and has a strong online community of 20,000 members and tens of thousands visitors every month.
The Big Idea Trust - Te Aria Nui is a registered charitable trust.
Donations to the Trust’s Givealittle to The Big Idea campaign entitle the donor to a tax rebate, which is managed by www.givealittle.co.nz
For further information, please contact:
Elisabeth Vaneveld, Executive Director
m | 027 490 7113
For media assistance, please contact:
Margaret Lewis, Marketing Manager
m | 027 446 1071
Comments
12 June 2009 - 18:40 PM
Hello everyone . . . Kia ora koutou . . .
As a community, there's been a tremendous response to our call for help and 24 hours in, $2084 has been donated. On behalf of the entire team at The Big Idea, a very big thank you to each and everyone of you. Your contribution is hugely appreciated.
We've also had an offer of an art-work for an on-line auction and we're looking into that - great idea!
Also for those of you living in Auckland, we're having a fundraising screening of A Bunch of Amateurs (it's a UK film set in a community theatre) at the Bridgeway Cinema in Northcote, 8pm Sunday 21 June. Watch out for details in the events section of The Big Idea.
Once again, a very warm thank you . . . I'll keep you posted as we go along . . .
With best wishes . . . Elisabeth
16 June 2009 - 23:06 PM
Hi everyone . . . A quick update: As of tonight, the total raised so far is $2552.50. We're on the way - that's great . . . Thank YOU . . . Elisabeth