We Need Your Help!

The donations OVEC gets from folks like you give us flexibility. We can use your donations, coupled with general support grants from foundations, on things that may not be covered by project-specific foundation funding.

To everyone who “gives as you are able,” throughout this newsletter are examples of how even the smallest donations are important to the work that we do.

Even the smallest donations are important to the work that OVEC does.

• $1.00 pays for a 15 minute call from the office in Huntington to members in Williamson who are organizing around water quality issues from the coal sludge impoundments in their area.
• $2.00 pays for a single newsletter, from the printing to the mailing. Our newsletter keeps people informed, and is used in- and out-of-state as an educational tool. We even have some libraries on our mailing list.
• $2.00 pays for six letters to the Corps of Engineers and other government agencies to submit comments on various proposed mountaintop removal (MTR) sites, sludge impoundments, buffer zone rule changes, proposed floating coal synfuel plants (gasp!)… and to just generally chew them out.
• $2.50 pays for mailing foundations our grant proposals, which allow OVEC to continue our outreach to coalfield communities on the issues of mountaintop removal and sludge impoundments, and the legislative work of passing Clean Elections in West Virginia.
• $3.00 pays for a week of newspaper subscriptions, which allows the OVEC staff to stay on top of local and worldwide events that affect our work, and to track the global publicity that mountaintop removal mining is getting.
• $4.00 pays for a ream of paper on which we can print everything from letters to legislators, to informational fliers, to handouts for events, to the newsletter you are reading right now.
• $5.00 pays for 83 pages of printing. This allows us to produce everything from fliers and brochures to fundraising letters, getting the word out to an ever-growing audience of concerned people.
• $10.00 pays for 1 day of rent for our office space in Huntington. The view isn’t too great, but it does give us enough room to work and store materials. And at least we do have windows now!
• $10.00 pays for two day’s upkeep of the website. Yes, it’s worth it! Have you been to our website lately? The website allows us to do outreach to hundreds of people every week. We get requests for permission to use our photos weekly, sometimes daily, from students, text book publishers, and publications as large as the New York Times, to as small as groups’ newsletters. We ask for a donation from the for-profit publications, while we ask non-profits to link to our website.  The website also allows supporters to make on-line donations through PayPal. We receive donations from all over the world this way.