For those readers who remember 2013-2014, it was a tough time running the Vanguard. In December 2013, our longtime website crashed and died. We ended up having to hire a new company to build it from scratch. But while we built a new site – at a huge cost – the site that replaced it was attacked immediately by bots and it too went down a few months later.
We had a website that was down twice for about 10 days a piece. Not a happy time.
In the fall of 2014, we hired Uptown Studios and lunched the current website in September 2014 and we have not a problem since. But now it is time to update the current website. This is not a full rebuild, but rather a re-design and it will modernize and optimize the site.
Still the cost won’t be cheap – about $4000. So for our fundraiser this year, we will be financing the new site – and maybe get us a few extra doctors to help pay our normal and ongoing costs.
As usual – you can help with a $5, $10, $25, $50, $100, $1000 or $5000 contribution. Whatever you can afford or would like to give, we appreciate.
To donate, we have three options:
Option one: our gofundme: http://gofundme.com/vanguard-new-website
Option two: paypal by going to DavisVanguard.org and hitting donate at the top or directly at info@davisvanguard.org
Option three: by check: Davis Vanguard, PO Box 4715, Davis, CA 95617
Thanks so much for your support.
To date we have raised more than $7310 of the $4000 after the second week of the fund drive. We have now passed our goal, but there is still time to make your tax deductible donation.
Nice photo – perhaps taken at the site of the Covell Village proposal?
Yes last July during the summer fires.
I see the smoke in the photo, now.
I won’t “thank” the fires, but I will thank Measure J/R (and those behind it) for saving this property from development. And, I’ll thank you for sharing the beauty of it.
The flowers/plants are crystal-clear, in your photo. And, you captured the sun at just the right time/position in your photo.
If only you’d use your photographic ability for the “good”, more often. 🙂
So, I see that the Vanguard has exceeded its goal.
Hadn’t really thought of it before, but the tax-deductibility of donations to the Vanguard would presumably also apply to developers.
Truly a way to make your dollars go further.
Meow… ~ 5 days, and counting…
Had Davis/VG been in “developers’ pockets”, it wouldn’t have taken more than two days to raise the entire $4,000… and a bunch more…
Well, I wonder who those contributors include.
Regardless, you can clearly see the Vanguard’s direction/future.
Of course, if the Vanguard was a for-profit publication, I understand that such contributions might then be considered a straight-out business expense. (And, could therefore still be deductible from development revenue, vs. personal taxes.)
There are certainly a lot of other non-profit organizations that aren’t taking developer dollars (via contributions, or direct advertising).
You guys must be desperate to be fighting over this post…
Jim:Â I didn’t intend to fight with Howard, but (as usual) he responded.
I just can’t imagine anyone donating to a publication that I view as harmful. Makes me wonder who these folks are. (Since the publication has a definite development-oriented slant, I would think that developers would be interested in supporting it.)
Ron, maybe you should open a “Vanguard Leaks” site and hope for the best.
None of you guys bothered to click on the GOFUNDME to see who donated to it?
I clicked it, it shows a total of 16 donations no where near the $7310 total.
Obviously they haven’t raised it all through the GoFundMe, but it does give you a start.
Plus we’ll never know who the anonymous donors are, will we?
Yesterday, I recall that the total was just over $4,000. I wonder how it increased by more than $3,000, overnight (to $7,310).
Seems like David’s “business model” is working pretty well!
Breakdown of four sources of funds in this drive:
GoFundMe $1575
Facebook $710
PayPal $3275
Checks $1750
(What I laugh about is that some of you believe that the monetary sources are developers, the reality is that – and both GoFundMe and Facebook donations are public – the biggest source of money came from attorneys and developers as far as I know have not contributed anything to the drive).