This paper includes a plan to begin to advocate for gay, lesbians, transgender, and bisexuals in modern-day Canada. It plans for Facebook geared to the LGBT community. It involves seeking support, both financial and social, from the community. The plan includes the proposals, oral and written, that one would make to the community.
¶ … Advocate Outline
Recruit corporate partners to donate for every member who "like" the website or facebook site.
Identify potential businesses for solicitation.
Search for gay and lesbian friendly businesses who advertise online.
Develop a prospect list
Develop an oral spiel for presentation
Include mission statement
Include benefits to the prospect's business
Include specific request
Contact all prospects via telephone
Present oral spiel
Ask for commitment
Keep a log of all prospects that were not available via telephone
Keep a log of all contributors
Develop a written spiel for presentation
Send a mailout to all prospects that were not available via telephone.
Maintain a log of those businesses targeted by mailout
Follow up on all attempted and completed contacts
Send thank you letters with confirmation of the business' commitment
Make additional phone calls to all businesses whom have yet to respond to either written or oral attempts to contact.
Begin to Advocate
Note: The cultivation of corporate sponsorship will be a continuous project. The following is designed as an initial "push" to capture as many donations as possible with the least expense. All of the potential donors have been targeted because they have self identified as gay and lesbian friendly and would benefit from the additional exposure,
List of gay and lesbian friendly businesses and phone numbers identified online:
Business Name
Proprietor
Phone Number or Address
SCP Books unknown [HIDDEN] Canada
Howelling Moon Artworks Ilisa Howell
866-470-3095 Canada
TSW Enterprises
unknown dba Rainbow Athletics [HIDDEN] Canada
RGB Law Group
unknown [HIDDEN] Vancouver
Atlantic Escapes Travel unknown [HIDDEN] Manitoba
Cetlalic unknown
011-52- [HIDDEN]
David Greenshields M.A. same
250-381-9626 Canada
Dfmi Designs
unknown
614-370-3202 Canada
Flersdirect.com unknown
800-836-2993 USA
Garden Valley Ranch unknown
707-792-0377 USA
GayImmigration.ca unknown
888-922-9495 Canada
Globally Boundless unknown
800-665-1321 Canada
Localadlink.com unknown
480-720-2069 Canada
Toronto Women's Bookstore unknown
416-922-8744 Canada
Oral Presentation
Hello. My name is ____. Because your company self identified as gay and lesbian friendly we decided to contact you about an interesting initiative that we are undertaking. As we are sure you are aware, it is difficult to reach all persons who may be interested in gay and lesbian businesses and issues. This is because the various forums and media outlets are not interconnected. This is a major impediment in the socio/political sphere as well as the business spectrum. Intuitively, we sensed that what is needed to surmount this obstacle is a means to unite all the individual groups, businesses, and persons who have an interest in the goings on in the gay and lesbian community. Therefore, we developed an online clearinghouse whereby all interested parties may communicate and bridge the gap of interconnectivity. In doing so, we hope to disseminate all social and political issues on one site. This will enable a person who would normally access a site limited to something like "Gay and Lesbian Softball" to also see what is going on the entire community which could effect their life (legislation, help lines, etc.).
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