This fund-raising campaign is asking for support to help cover the costs of printing and mailing The Lathrup Village Voice newsletter and other written communication to residents in Lathrup Village.

I'd like to send a batch of beautiful new invitations out to all of Lathrup Village to invite anyone interested to come join our Facebook group, The Lathrup Village Voice - the group that's got everyone talking and where discussion is encouraged! (Check out the newest update for more info.)

I'd also like to continue to print and mail out the Lathrup Village Voice newsletter.

Today, with censors limiting social media's content and reach, and with digital media content largely replacing old-fashioned and independent local print media, it seems to me that there is a real need for reconnection; a physical document to hold in one's hands that contains relevant local news, updates, reminders and announcements, as well as a place for voices in our community to be heard, with freedom of speech at it's core.

For these reasons I launched the Facebook group The Lathrup Village Voice in 2021 - and then, in Nov, 2023, I launched the print version by the same name. As of this writing, I have now printed up and sent out FOUR months of the printed version - Hooray!

However, as one might imagine, the print version of The Lathrup Village Voice costs real money to have printed and then sent out.

My main goal is to print and mail out a new newsletter every month, on (or as near as possible to) the first of the month.

I have been pondering how to sustainably finance this project and last month we were blessed with several donors and donations towards this cause, and that donated amount fortuitously covered the printing costs for 520 copies and then mailing out to a select section of Lathrup, roughly 450 houses, through the Post Office's 'Every Door Direct Mail'.

Currently, it costs roughly $400 for every 500 newsletters. (.80 cents each)

For the upcoming newsletter I'd love to be able to repeat last month's mailing, along with hoping to possibly enlarge the delivery area - but each delivery area is route predetermined by the Post Office, and each route is 350-500 houses, so I'm hoping to print and deliver that many more, but will be content to at least repeat last month's effort.

And that's where YOU come in. Will you join me in support of this effort to print and send out this newsletter?

My pledge to you is to be consistent and informative and to do my level best to create a lovely and entertaining local monthly newsletter that is germane to what is currently happening in the Village and at City Hall.

This fund-raising campaign is asking for support to help cover the costs of printing and mailing The Lathrup Village Voice newsletter to residents on 3 postal routes in Lathrup Village and hopefully reach just over 1450 residents, the largest mailing to date!

My larger goal *was* hoping to eventually be able to deliver this newsletter to *all* of Lathrup Village, and maybe even someday be a multiple paged paper with space to devote to other local voices and contributors - but perhaps moving to a subscription format that is mailed direct would be a more realistic goal for now? I do intend to keep this paper independently owned and operated, possibly register as a non-profit, and remain free of sponsors and advertisers if possible - but in the meantime, I'm simply hoping to add one more delivery area/USPS route, hoping to deliver to roughly 1450 houses in Lathrup.

Want to help do that?

Every donation, no matter how small, adds up!

Thank you so much for considering supporting this campaign's effort to provide this new newsletter to our Village.

Sincerely, Autumn Sousanis,

-Admin for The Lathrup Village Voice group on Facebook, and author/editor/publisher of the print version of The Lathrup Village Voice hoping to be delivered to your door, every month.

This campaign is unpublished.

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