@PapaBloog
Essentially, you can help us to do what we do even better.
If you want to help ECF do it better, then maybe spare a thought for the poor, underworked, overpaid staff. Sorry I mean overworked, underpaid. Phew... There is nothing the staff like better than mods, and like most people, their wages are better spent on the family than themselves - so there is a
mod shortage among the Moderators.
If you got together with a few other members and bought a
mod, and put it up as a raffle prize for the Moderators, you'd make a lot of friends here. The Mods here don't just moderate the forums (as if that wasn't enough, with over 100,000 posts a month) - many of them also have 'projects' they look after, such as looking after biz card supplies, liaising with Suppliers, organizing paperwork. There are a lot of things to do for a forum of this size. So if you'd like to help them with a gift, you are both helping the machinery of the site and giving a thank-you where it is deserved.
I'd also suggest that you donate to CASAA - except it looks like you know that already, from your avi
The most valuable thing anyone can donate is time. We can all find a buck here or there to help out with but very few can or will take the time to do what needs to be done: making sure your voice is heard by people in power before they make the wrong decisions for the wrong reasons. Phoning, writing and mailing a letter, and especially visiting their office. Taking part in meetings or demonstrations. Turning up at committee hearings. Actually doing something, not just sending an email.
People could ask themselves: have I visited my Representative's office and told them what I think? Did I take printed copies of the downloads we have available for you to use?
Useful electronic cigarette factsheets
Have I taken these fact sheets to my local doctor's surgery and ensured that all the medical personnel there each have a copy? Have I visited my city's committee chair or other city chief elected representative's office and told them what I think about local regulations, and left some literature with them?
These are things that need to be done that are worth more than money, as time is more precious and few will donate that. And especially, being someone who helps with organizing those things as well as taking part.
Since you have a CASAA emblem in your avi you most likely know all these things and have done many of them, so this list is mainly for others who read this. Except the mod for the Mods bit
