January 15

Today is a glorious sunshiny day here in Maine! After my meeting at Saint Dom's High School this morning, I went to my favorite little coffee shop in Gorham, sat in the window seat and basked in the sun. I had to take a few moments to think, and be thankful.
Russ, the Director of Institutional Advancement at St. Dom's HS is a great guy. He has a no nonsense exterior and looks like a marine so I was a little nervous. But it didn't last long. I started by telling him about myself and my family, and how I got involved with My PowerMall. We covered the details about TWCCTW, Ginny, and how schools and NPOs can create sustainable funding. I discussed the 3 sources of income, the WCM fees, rebates from the mall and the American Express gift cards. I handed him a printout of the income calculations for the school after each one. I used very conservative numbers. Tier 1 was the school, tier 2 was 50 staff, faculty and board members, tier 3 was 275 students and tier 4 was 1375 (each student getting 5).
I told him the best was yet to come - each person - staff, faculty, board member and student could help a non profit, AND earn money themselves.
He said exactly what I said the first time I saw the income numbers..."I can't wrap my head around this.It seems too good to be true" I said, "Yes, I know!"
I preempted his next comment by saying "You may think it looks like a MLM, but it's not. There are no products to stock or sell, no meetings and no games."
I added at his point that my husband has been a State Trooper for 23 years. I am used to being very careful with what I associate with. We checked out everything before I even got involved, and I invited him to do the same. He seemed pleased with this. We got back to the numbers...
"So, on this level where I would have a WCM, where does that money go?"
"To you, that would be yours." Big silence.
I know it's a lot to take in so I just sat there and let him think.
He was thinking about how they could implement this at the school, because the next question was "I could very easily see us directing parents to use the gift cards to pay tuition, but how would they do it?"
"They would go their own WCM, buy the Amex gift cards, then go to the School site and pay the tuition online."
We logged onto the Buxton Food Pantry WCM at this point and I showed him around the One Child at a Time, the Local Merchant Mall, and then we went to the biz site. I showed him which video he should watch, and the "I want a World Changer Mall" button just below it. At this point I suggested that he talk with Brian, his counterpart from Cheverus, about how we could get a pilot program started right here in Maine, and offered my help at every point along the way. He agreed that we would meet again soon.