You know how crucial it is to empower today’s girls with healthy, positive media–alternatives to the toxic media drenching our daughters. New Moon Girls online community and magazine gives girls ages 8 and up a safe, exciting, supportive space to express themselves and hear from other girls around the world. Girls who could be the next Courtney Martin (a finalist this week in Washington Post’s America’s Next Great Pundit contest) whose first article was published in New Moon when she was a girl, 14 years ago.
Sadly, this will all end on 12-31-09 without your help.
New Moon has had a tough year like many other businesses. Even with a lot of effort, we haven’t succeeded in bringing in additional investors this fall, and it’s time to add a new strategy to keep New Moon alive. We have until Dec 31 to reach monthly break-even so that New Moon can grow in the future.
Have we tightened our own belts? You betcha! Right now our monthly expenses are 65% less than they were a year ago. But we still have a gap of $7500 a month to break-even. The good news is that with your help we can close this gap. The gap amounts to only 250 additional orders a month @ $29.95.
You can help by:
Sponsoring memberships for libraries, schools and programs serving low-income girls. It’s quick and easy to sponsor one, ten or 100 girls – every dollar matters!
Buying memberships for all girls 8-14 that you know. Our holiday special saves you 50% after the first order.
Telling everyone what you value about New Moon. Link to us, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter and share with your FB friends and Tweeps.
Please act today so the media universe for girls won’t be totally dominated by Stardoll.com, Seventeen magazine, and worse.
With your help to sponsor memberships for non-profits and to give New Moon as gifts, we can continue to ensure a media that lifts girls’ aspirations, increases their power, and gives them an outlet for their unique perspectives and voices. I’m sending this email to everyone I know and asking you to do the same.
Also, if you (or someone you know) would like to learn more about becoming an investor in New Moon, contact Nancy Gruver: nancyg@newmoon.com.
All the best,
Joe
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I will be getting a subscription for my best friend’s 10 yr old, asap. This is a publication I want to see still going to press when my daughter reaches 7 or 8.
I will also ask my library to carry the magazine — having had my own print publication fold recently, I know that now more than ever we must support the publications we believe in!
Great article, I especially like what you had to say in the last paragraph.