Donor Bridge, whining, accident

The Donor Bridge is a great program in which agencies can sign up and on a specific day, donors can donate to the agency (or library) and the donation is matched. Great, right? But the application is awful. We need the mission statement, impact statement, employee retention, history of the organization, management succession plan, strategic plan, fundraising plan, three year financials, etc., etc.

I know, I know - it's all valuable information - but what a pain to do it all. Do most agencies have a paid person to do this? Also, it only works on a PC and internet explorer - so all the info I've collected on my Mac has to be sent to a person with a PC then uploaded from there. And did I mention that we changed our name in 2005, but apparently not with the IRS, just with Texas, so all that has to be changed and they've misspelled library on all our forms (Libarary) - so that all has to be changed, too.

If it weren't a local program and if we weren't planning a capital campaign, I would just say to hell with it.

In worse news, one of our key library people, past president of the Friends and good friend was in a car wreck tonight and broke her neck. She has feeling in her extremities and is talking, so it could be lots worse -

Last whine. Our generous landlord has let us have about 4500 more square feet for the library - mostly storage space and space for meetings and storytime. Since it used to be an office, there are poles which contain computer cables and electricity which go from ceiling to floor which we want to remove since we don't need them. I took the man who's been doing handyman stuff here at the house and at the rental places over to help - but now the building manager says everyone who works there has to sign a waiver for asbestos.