June 12, 2007 Dear Interested Persons,KUMEYAAY.INFO is a three-year-old grassroots hobby publication with no employees and only one person working on the site. To date, it has been built and funded solely by me, the webmaster/founder. In January 2006 I posted a query here for financial sponsors to help establish a functioning organization. After six months and no inquires, I withdrew the offer. Please enjoy the web site. Sincerely, GARY G. BALLARD SITE STATISTICS (over 38,000,000 hits!): SCREEN SHOTS of our complete 2005/2006/2007 statistics.
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January 1, 2006
Dear Perspective Sponsors,
KUMEYAAY.INFO is an 18-month-old grassroots hobby publication with no employees and only one person working on the site. To date, it has been funded solely by its webmaster/founder.
In this short time, OUR impressive site traffic is a result of aggressive Search Engine Optimization, and quality, original multi-media content and professional graphic design.
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Our total 2005 Site Statistics are:
Our numbers are growing fast:
Our Goggle ranking is first page (top 10) on nearly all KEY WORDS targeted: online american indian museums #5 of 18,300,000 We rank similar on most Kumeyaay words, but they are far less competitive, including: kumeyaay museums #1 WHO today is actually building a kumeyaay historical image library (that hasn't horded them away in a vault and charged money to see them)? I could show very long lists of similar results.... Google is HOW people are finding information today, and people are forming their opinions on what's available, right or wrong, biased or unbiased, the pretty pages get attention. |
ven my critics who would say — he's not Indian and has little business publishing this type of website — would be hard-pressed not to acknowledge my effort and enjoy (and learn from) parts of my work.
It's true I'm not Native American, and I am certainly no expert on the Kumeyaay or California Indian peoples.
But I bring a powerhouse of other interesting qualities to the table as evident in my many original 2005 "Indian" works....
Today I am looking for a Cornerstone Sponsor to invest in this dream and help us build a VIRTUAL INSTITUTION on the California Indian peoples — 10 years, 150 years on the internet — this is a timely ground-breaking opportunity to etch your name into stone as the Cornerstone Sponsor.
This is a golden opportunity for a Kumeyaay band, but we will also consider corporate, institutional and private sponsors for Cornerstone and Executive sponsorships.
| "This site is happening with or without outside financial support — I've already proven that.
"We could do a lot more important work better with proper funding." -webmaster |
With proper funding: We can hire qualified researchers to write, review and "clean up" the parts of KUMEYAAY.INFO that I have written wrong or misleading. We can setup a proper organization, and I can continue this work full time without distractions.
As a first priority:
The elders are our generation's last living link to the past. KUMEYAAY.INFO needs funding today to afford us the necessity of visiting and videotaping tribal elders in their natural environments as they tell their oral histories and speak about their pictures and memories.
Yes, I have a dream, and it is my time to do this work.
Very truly yours,
GARY G. BALLARD
Webmaster, Founder
