7th-July-2008
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Lt Gen. Tersak, Reporting | |
Terri Lynn Tersak, report from TEN. You want an Army, soundly organised and active?
TEN has Percy's personal recommendation. Quote: Hello Everyone –
We have been busy and we thank everyone for the remarkable level of support we have been getting. Here’s an update on what we have been up to lately.
Survey:
Some of you expressed concern that survey missed a few questions you felt were key. The free system we used limited our survey to ten (10) questions per survey, which is why is was broken into multiple surveys.
Others wanted an open format comment field. The free system has no means to correlate answers beyond multiple choice questions, manually correlating up to 160,000 comments (our current mail list size) in simple text fields, such as URL’s of other organizations readers feel we should consider affiliation with will be a huge manual task alone. We don’t have the people power to deal with mass information the scope of a larger comment field would deliver to us.
We did however learn a great deal about who reads our eNews list already. At the 25% response point (40,000 responses) we learned that we have an equal number of married, divorced, and single readers. 50% of our readership has no political affiliation and the gender breakdown is 53% male – 47% female. 100% listed “False Claims of Abuse,” as their “Most Important” concern with no one listing false claims of abuse a lesser concern. In fact, that is the only concern category that only has most important as the response with not one person listing it as being a lesser concern.
We hope you understand the limitations we are working through with a free polling system. However, what we have learned will help direct our efforts into the future.
Shelter Investigation:
A large potion of our leadership has been on the road for the past week and will be traveling again this coming week through July 23, 2008 supporting almost 200 shelter employees who are trying to blow the whistle on many serious abuses, including putting high priority on the intentional, systemic discrimination against male victims of partner violence and deliberate actions to prevent any negative comments be added to files of female residents of abuse shelters. Having people who have worked within the system come forth and tell the world how far up the partner violence funding system discrimination against male victims and the pandemic fraud runs promises to open the problems up for public scrutiny. This is far beyond what we have seen to date or been able to accomplish in the past.
This effort comes with a pretty hefty price tag for air travel, lodging, gasoline and meals for over a dozen TEN members (including regional directors, state chapter leaders and field investigators) and costs (copying, notary fees, etc.) of getting certified copies public various records (police reports, professional license revocations, etc.). We can use a lot more funding help then usual for the next three to six weeks than the leadership can collectively afford out of own pockets. Being that no one at TEN gets paid for our efforts, we all either have full times jobs or our spouses/significant others foot the bill for our members’ efforts. This effort; code named, “Project Root Beer” will help both men and women equally, which is a very rare occurrence in our disaster of a family law system. Most of all, it will help the children of everyone affected, which is, after all, our real goal.
I need to ask for more monetary support than usual for the upcoming weeks. You can PayPal contributions from our web site or use the email address, Contribute2TEN@True-Equality.org on the PayPal site. Those who prefer to send checks and money orders, please email me for the addressing information as we have relocated our offices to a much smaller, cheaper location.
Thank you again for working with us and remember that we are all in this together.
Yours truly,
Terri Lynn Tersak
President & C.E.O.
True Equality Network
member - Affiliate
RADAR: Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting
http://www.True-Equality.org/
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