Dear Friends of Appreciative Inquiry,

Whether you will be with us in Kathmandu (330 participants from 38 countries!!); Online from where you are; or just among the hundreds who can't make it to Nepal but wish you were with us for this exciting conference that starts in just over a week, we write to ask your support to help make the conference 'even better.

We need to raise $2000 to cover a few gaps that remain.

Please join with us and send a pledge by return email. We'll reply with instructions asap on how to get the cash to the right place.

Here's the story

We are almost at 'break-even' -- a miracle given these rough economic times--but we are still short of the funds needed to bring those wonderful WORTH women from Chitwan for our Day 2 interactive session. And we need support for our colleagues in Nepal who have put this conference together.

Those remarkable WORTH women made it through the Maoist rebellion, through one political crisis after another, they kept their village banks going, and are still hard at work educating their daughters, ending domestic violence, and--as the biggest circle of AI practitioners that we know about anywhere in the world--have ended poverty for themselves and thousands of other women in Nepal, and now across half-a-dozen other countries in Asia and Africa.

But we can't ask these amazing women to have to pay from their own pockets to come meet with us in Kathmandu--and we can't ask the local grass roots NGO, Samjhauta--which is making the arrangements for them to come and for setting up village visits for those of us going to visit them after the conference--to pay from their pockets either.

And... as important... we can't let our Nepali colleagues--who have worked tirelessly for the past year to organize this great event--to dig into their own personal pockets to cover the remaining costs in Nepal! They have all volunteered to pay full freight as participants... We cannot let them do that after all they have done!
We all owe them for all they've done, not only for the Conference, but for the global Appreciative Inquiry movement they are supporting.

So, please, dig into your hearts and wallets and send us whatever you can spare. We're each chipping in $100. Can you do the same? Or $25, $50... or maybe $500 if you got a bonus check recently?

Reply with your pledge by return email and we'll get back to you ASAP with instructions on how to get the money to us.

Only a week to go!

"Do it Now!" 'Yes We Can!"

With heartfelt thanks, and lots of 'appreciation,'

Please contact us at info@2009worldaiconference.org for details regarding how to help support this exciting conference!"