Catsey charity

[Phoenix]

Nice idea in theory, how would it work in practice?

[EmmaG]

Originally Posted by dandysmom

OK to make it simpler. suppose we decide on a Catsey mug. What color? What wording? Pic a generic cat or one of ours (decided how, by vote?) What vendor? Who picks the vendor and sets the price? Who negotiates with vendor?

I'm not trying to rain on your parade; I love the idea, but having been thru the tee shirt bit, am very much inclined to play Devil's advocate here. There is usually a lot of enthusiasm in the beginning, but it falls off when we get to the details.

Emma, I'd be glad to work with you if you want to take charge of getting this up and running.

I would gladly contribute a small amount monthly to the charity bit.

Eileen I think you have got my idea of the charity merchandise wrong.

Catsey merchandise would have the catsey logo on and perhaps the URL

So we have white mugs, with the four cats above and www.Catsey.com on the mugs, buy them for say £10 and resell for £15 + P&P - the charity would get £5.

If we keep it simple it will work, try and make it complicated and it wont.

[dandysmom]

You're right, I did misunderstand the merchandise bit; what you propose is, I think, doable. I'm all for it. I did have to get an OK from Az for the tee shirts as Angie mentioned, to use the name and URL.

[Moli]

What do you mean by local charities Emma....we are spread about a bit..

[Shelley123]

Sounds a good idea, i like the idea of a paypal account for donations and the idea of donating once we get say £100.
Where would the money come from to buy the merchandise?

[Kazz]

I am paying attention but so excited by my new arrivals (garden tools) I can't concentrate so am reading and taking nothing on board but will reread tomorrow and try to say something useful.

Think its a good idea though.

[EmmaG]

Moli - when I said local charities I really meant not giving all of the money to the RSPCA for example. The money could go (for example) and help somebody who was fostering some cats/kittens, we could donate by way of food/vet vouchers. There are plenty of catsey members who foster or take in stray cats or help a local charity - it would be great to help some of them, even a small contribution would help I am sure.

Shelley - I would happily donate say the first 5 mugs - once they are sold we have funds available to buy new ones. Or we could set up an online merchandise account whereby we just provide a link to all of the merchandise and people buy direct (we set the prices) therefore we do not have to buy any stock. Once a purchase is made we would get the markup.

[EmmaG]

We could decide beforehand who we would donate the money to - once we reach target we distribute the money to those people (more than 1 would be good I think) With the money we could buy vouchers rather than donating cash if people thought that was more appropriate.

[dandysmom]

As I recall, the online merchandise account was what Matt did for the calendars.

[angieh]

Yes, that's right Eileen. But I think that because so few were actually sold, there wasn't much to give to charity, if anything. I don't remember the figures. The markup that the producers make is fairly hefty.