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Donate via PayPal.
Use the button above. It's a secure
and easy way to donate to this
important town non-profit, grassroots,
informational organization.
Donations, unfortunately, are
not tax deductible. Thank you
for your support.
Or send a personal check.
If you prefer, send a check made out to WeLoveMillburn, Inc., Treasurer, 25 Stewart Road, Short Hills, NJ 07078.
Your local United Way serves needs right here in Millburn/Short Hills. Give today. www.unitedwayofmillburn.org.
WeLoveMillburn.com supports the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Specify "2008 Hurricane Season Relief". Contribute at our local American Red Cross chapter, 389 Millburn Ave., Short Hills, NJ 07078 (973-379-4198) or the American Red Cross, P. O. Box 37243, Washington, DC 20013 (1-800-RED-CROSS). Text "Give" to 2Help (24357) to donate $5. Internet users can make a secure online contribution at www.redcross.org.
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Help your friends and neighbors be informed
about upcoming issues and opportunities we face together.
You've already taken the first step. You found our website
and, hopefully by now, you read a lot of the information
and views we've posted.
Here are some suggestions of how you can pass on the information
about our fairly new grassroots organization to others:
The best way to help us spread the word about the
organization to friends, relatives and neighbors is
always the in-person, face-to-face way. In your conversations
with others about town issues and concerns, it is very
easy to remember the name of our organization. Just
say, "check out WeLoveMillburn.com" and they will have
no trouble remembering our name, spelling it and looking
us up on the web.
Another way you can help spread the word is to copy the little
note below or cut and paste it into your own personal email you
send out. Add a personal touch of your own by all means and send
it to as many town residents as you have in your email address
directory. This is not spam but peer-to-peer recommendations of
a valuable helpful website you want them to visit too.
Proposed text for your email but by all means change
it, edit, add a more personal touch of your own:
"I recently discovered a new organization in town
that is helping to inform us all of town issues and
hopefully opportunities too in the future. This is
a grassroots activism group that is made up of many
of our own friends and neighbors. Their name and web
address is WeLoveMillburn.com. Their rallying cry at
this point is: We deserve town, school and tax options.
They are already covering a lot of issues in town that
I am learning about and concerned about. Their biggest
issue until December is the proposed $40 million new
school bond referendum. They have research and demographic
studies posted on the website that questions the need
for spending that much. They go on to say that if the
referendum is in fact defeated the Board of Education
has not proposed any backup plan at all. I have signed
(I am considering signing) the petition at WeLoveMillburn.com
because it asks the Board to present alternatives to
the community that are both lower cost and educationally
equal (or better) to the currently proposed plan. It
is my opinion that the Board of Education has not seriously
analyzed or considered alternatives. Even if you don't
sign the petition, do sign up for their informational
newsletter. Thanks for letting me share the information
on this new activism group with you. Let me know what
you decide to do if you would."
Here's another possible way to help us spread the word.
If you belong to town organizations or school organization
and have an ongoing way of communicating news, like a
newsletter, include our address (our URL www.WeLoveMillburn.com)
in that communication.
If you have other ideas that would help us spread the word about
our grassroots informational organization and website, send them
to us at info@WeLoveMillburn.com
And in case you missed it on the front page, below is our mission
statement and reason for being.
Who Loves Millburn?
WeLoveMillburn.com is composed of hundreds of concerned
residents from the Millburn/Short Hills community who
have come together for one reason. We want to be better
informed about the decisions being made that affect the
future of our town.
During 2005 and 2006, critical issues face the township that will
have long lasting effects on our educational system, town government,
local business district, property taxes and the community as a whole.
WeLoveMillburn.com will provide residents with regular updates on
all of these issues so you can make informed decisions when it comes
time to vote or make your voices heard.
Our mission is to both provide information and encourage all residents
to vote. Whether you have recently moved to town, or have lived here
like some for several generations, we join together in a positive
spirit of informing one another about what is happening, what is
not happening and what is possible. We are all neighbors and this
is our town.
You can email us at info@WeLoveMillburn.com with
any specific questions you or your neighbors and friends might have.
We would like to respond to your questions but we also would appreciate
your comments and reactions to town issues we may have covered or
have not covered yet. We're a team. Give us your help.
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