It Takes Money to make money

I know we have all heard that saying. It makes perfect sense. What doesn't make sense is that this same truth applies to non profits - which by definition are NOT making profits. Ha! We can't even go to a bank and ask for a loan to start. *sigh*

It's the same when you are starting any company - you need to get your name out there, you need quality advertising etc.. because you only get one shot at making a first impression and for us, we are trying to reach companies and ask for sponsorships so we need to have something professional in order to be taken seriously. Hence the reason that we need professional looking information but as we all know takes money. It's something I'm torn with because I don't want to use the money we've been given so far for all these things that are actually necessary. I want to use them to save up for all the loans we need. BUT in order to get the money for those loans we have to get out there and catch the attention of some big wig companies willing to give us tens of thousands to see the lives of Haitians changed forever.

We need specific funds in order to produce quality media/advertising kits and we need certain funds to buy the aprons that the people will wear at the marketplace. My dream world consists of this, someone donating a large sum of money to Open Hand and telling us that we can use it wherever it is needed. Ok, I put it out into the blog sphere...