I just got a call from the DCCC asking for a donation to get started early on the '06 campaigns. I told her I'd have to check and see if I could afford the amount she was asking for, but that I'd be interested in setting up an automatic monthly donation. I already give to a few organizations that take 15 or 20 a month, which I can always spare.
But she said they don't have that capability. It seems to me that having a steady flow of monthly recurring revenue would be a better for them as far as being able to count on it for budgeting. And of course, it's better for us as patrons in the sense that giving 10 or 20 bucks a month is easier to do than say a 150 bucks at once (especially coming into a bleak holiday season), and also in the sense that they wouldn't have to keep calling every so often (which gets kinda tiresome and ends up feeling like being pestered no matter the cause).
So if anyone here has connects to the DCCC's techie or fundraising folks, could they get a hold of them and ask them about setting up the same system that (for example) Greenpeace/HRC/SaveTheChildren/etc have?