2022 SPRING FUND DRIVE BEGINS

Time for our Spring Fund Drive.  We’ll be sending our lots of HTML mail and putting lots of notices on our website and social media platforms.  We’ll also be playing a variety of fund drive videos. If you want to see them all at one time, check out our 2021 Fund Drive playlist.


The Fund Drive dates are from 4/15 to the end of May, but you can of course donate before and even a few days after and we’ll still give you credit in our public thank you notes.  And we’ll greatly appreciate you and be deeply grateful for your contribution to our efforts and to help us continue our work for the community.


So stand by for our Drive, it’s coming in only a few days and we hope, hope, hope that you will make a donation, as much as you can, to help us continue our efforts to bring clarity to a very uncertain world and actually a world that is growing more and more uncertain as we watch.  As you can imagine, it’s very important to us.


Clearly, these days, we must all follow the sea changes to make sure we know what’s going on at home and in the world, and to have our hosts and guests bring clarity by participating on ThinkTech, by addressing these issues and by encouraging us all to be more actively involved.  As Amanda Litman says, run for something.


The common denominator is that people don’t much get involved.  The common denominator for ThinkTech is that we do care and we do get involved.  In these uncertain times, complacency is simply not a defensible option.


Get involved.  Make a donation to help ThinkTech keep going.  Click here.  And thanks so much for your support.


Best,


Jay

(808) 708-9254

thinktechhawaii.com


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