Are you one of the eight?

There’s one last, special chance and only one way you can still join the Downsize DC “Refounders-2016″ committee. So read on to learn the only way you can get your name on this historic list.

Also, in a moment, I’m going to share with you the finalized Refounders-2016 committee listing.

This is our “final report” on the capitalization stage for our new Engage system. In nine messages over the course of September, we…

• covered how this fresh system would deliver 16 new benefits to you, the Downsize DC Army.
• explained how it would save us significant money on maintenance, freeing up resources to focus even more on bills like the One Subject at a Time Act.

We started out needing to raise $38,000. Our recurring pledgers were joined by others so that over 320 people donated. Most of them are listed below. Some preferred anonymity.

As a result, we finished off this fundraising campaign just…

$697 short.

$38,000 is a lot of money. Perry, I, and the rest of our team are so grateful to each of you for the confidence you’ve invested in us.

As for the $697… This tiny shortfall happened because we came up short on our new monthly pledgers goal. We needed only eight more new credit-card pledgers. That is…

If eight more people had given $8 with a credit card pledge, we would’ve made our goal.

Therefore…

• The first eight people who…
• Start a monthly credit card pledge of $8 or more

…shall be included in the Refounders-2016 list.

That’s right. There are only eight “special slots” left and when they’re gone, they’re gone.

We look forward to giving our Refounders, including these eight new pledgers, a “sneak peek” of the pictures of the new website. It looks great. And that should happen in just a few days.

Below my signature, please review the list of wonderful people who are making the new DownsizeDC.org Engage system possible.

Thank you for your support,

Jim Babka President DownsizeDC.org, Inc.

Refounders-2016: Brian Thomson, Dougin Walker, Larry Ryan, Jann Werner, Ken Whedbee, Bill Staton, Bruce Sawicki, Virginia Schilling, Jean McCrady, Ferdinand Reinke, David Mason, Robert Stern, Beau Branson, Rob Chrisman, Bruce Morton, Peter Cappello, Leo Hamel, Robert Lehman, Dwight Baker, William Hees, Allan Higgins, Bruce Liddel, Nicholas Hasulak, Robert Hart Jr, Martin Anding, William Buzzell, Albert Pigeon, David Rempel, Carl Case, Wilma Sinclair, Daniel Laux, Scott Mosher, David Kaup, John Fehsenfeld, Rob Miller, Stephanie Adams, Joe Cobb, Elijah Henry, David King, Eric Olivas, Jonathan Sauer, Mary Swim, Andy Williams, Travis Walston, Steven Castrechino, James E Mayer, Michael Burks, John Sparduto, Richard Loomis, Andrew Borom, R Hilliard, Gerry Benton, Marc Bessent, John Bitner, Richard Browning, Alan Eames, Joshua Horstman, Victoria Kelley, Erik Lindborg, Benjamin Moyes, David Rowntree, James Smith, Larry Stuppy, Edward Wright, Deborah Bishop, Michael Gibbs, David Jeffries, Tim Kaelin, Michael Newsome, Christopher Norbury, Mel Pinney, John Hathaway, Marjorie Peters, Jaret Osborne, Charles Lankford, Kendra Robb, Jim Compton, Michael Stoll, Howard Beatty, Jeff Cannon, Paul Davis, Craig Finch, Ralph Horton, Michel Kaiser, Dave Larson, Jack Madren Jr, Kay Samalin, Kirk Singh, Curry Taylor, Susan Varey, Mark LeBar, Dan’l Leviton, Mark Crowley, Robert Lidral, Jim Ferris, Randolph Szabla, Mark Gogan, Chuck Patel, Dennis Poole, Michael Phillips, Doug Szarkowski, Peter Skaates, Steven Schram, Barbara Haskins, John DiLiberto, Franklin Davis, Tom Demers, Christopher Gough, Shawn M. Murray, J.D., Ross Primrose, Jerry Titus, Kathleen Arnheim, Pranav Badhwar, David Brown, Steven Busby, Ronald Cadby, Norman Coppola, William Cross, Kerry Daniel, Terri Dewell, Jill Friedman, Roger Garcia, Ralph Hollister, John Konrath, David Kornbluh, Michael Kraus, Pamela Krauskopf, Thomas Kurzej, Cherry Lewis, Jerry Mabry, Anne Marshall, Michael Maskalans, Diane McFarland, Frank Pater, Harold Peckham, Joseph Plummer, Kurt Schurenberg, Judith Ann Shellabarger, Robert Terhune, Susan Tindall, Mark Wilczek, Travis Williams, Randy Young, Len Hofferber, Andrew Jason, Terry Robinson, William Stoner, William White, Timothy Doubledee, Dan Kelly, Michael Hughes, Dana Gudenau, Roger Leahy, Pamela Browne, Dana Davis, Anneliese Gimpel, James LaCombe, James Marquart, Dann McCreary, Joel Norgaard, Robert Schlotman, Shohn Trojacek, James Troy, Jim Wilson, Craig Thompson, Peggy Christensen, Dan Edgar, Marta Howard, Derek Moyes, Eric Parks, Sandra Pierre, Virgil Ragsdale, Jim Delton, Jack Bruns, Dale & Leslie Bates, Adam Rezner, Mike Spalding, Andrew Walling, George Hanson, Ronald Pond, Jacquelyn St Aubyn, Dwight Bakker, Randy Etter, Steve Stewart, Patricia Wedel, David Gorrell, Michael O’Brien, James Balson, Pattie Bagwell, Charles Brady, Keith Brilhart, Landon Cahow, Todd Clark, Brice Dobry, Teryn Driver, Richard Fall, Marcelyn Floyd, Roy Fuller, Eric Geislinger, Justin Gillen, Kristi Granger, Richard Hale, Jackson Harvey, David Herzfeld, Phil Hoff, Thibeaux Lincecum, Christopher R. Maden, Chuck Metalitz, Matthew Pfluger, Odetta Pierce, Salvatore Pizzo, Jason Rowberg, Annalee Scharbor, Sonja Smith, Roman Sovkoplas, Jeff Stewart, Carl Swinney, James Wahler, David Weakland, Gregory Williamson, Bob Ford, Martin Johnson, Tom Morris, Valerie Nixon, Wendell Drye, Luke Elms, Dan Goebel, Steven Hahn, Loretta Hurite, Paul Rogers, Yvonne Schick, Paul Smith, Timothy Streit, Thomas Thacker, Larry Upshaw, Jeffrey Hatwig, Tracy Almeida, Kirk Beck, Robert Bussey, R.S. Elam, Tim Haffner, Jeff Held, Jerry Hickman, Wes Johnson, Mary Kennedy, Joyce Manett, Raylene Short, Gregg Young, Gary Wood, Hana Bernard, Bruce Boyd, Bobby Chapuis, Kathleen Chippi, Terry Hulsey, Sue Lewis, Derrick Nybakken, Richard Rountree, Richard Siebold, Robert Taylor, John Tierney, Jo Vaccarino, Raymond Veneklase, David Bradshaw, John Davis, Ed Grether, James Howe, Edward Krieger, Scott Lieberman, Nicholas McNamara, Paul Meyer, Linda Rowberg, Steven Bachman, Mike Clancy, Christian Conti-Vock, Carrie Eiler, Jon Foster, Matthew Haas, Charlotte Juett, Russell Stanton, James C. Stevens, David Yett, Robert Havay, Mike Rosing, James Sewell, Joe Shearey, Jim Babka, Frances Gettys, William IV, Anna Janek, Adora Jones, STATEOFTHEHEART LLC, Martha Montelongo,Brad Morefield, Dan Moyes, Tom Mulcahy, Evan Nagel, Thomas Solt, John Walker, Rachel Weber, Liz Winterhawk, Brittany Wolf, Bernard Zamostny, Darryl W. Perry, Kit Arbuckle, Drew Campbell, David Gaj, Scott Grunsted, Brian Happaney, Joseph Keeney, Thomas Mayhew, Nick Morana, Greg Moser, Paul Price, Joseph Theriault, Billy Burger, Larry Calvert, Roy Hannah, Michael Kitchen, Thomas Knapp, Paul Spray