Contact Information for Jayne Cravens  

I probably really want to hear from you!

But FIRST, before you contact me:

• please do NOT ask me for grants advice/funding suggestions beyond what I already freely offer in this document, unless you are willing to pay a consulting fee for my time on this project.

• please do NOT ask me to recommend a volunteer management/constituent management software package. I'm not familiar enough with the variety of products out there. Here, for free, is what i think you should look for in volunteer management/constituent management software. 

• please do NOT write me to say you want a "partnership" without saying explicitly what you mean - do you mean you want to pay me for my time and expertise? do you want me to promote your initiative and give you advice but not compensate me? do you want to go into business together and share profits? Be specific and detailed, please. I ignore messages to me that talk about partnerships but aren't explicit as to what they mean.
  

• please do NOT ask me to review your business plan for your nonprofit or NGO, your web site, your software or your volunteer recruitment platform and provide feedback, unless you are willing to pay a consulting fee for my time to review such (happy to discuss my rates with you!)

• please do NOT ask me how to start a nonprofit organization or NGO (this information is oh-so-easy to find online).

• please do not write and say "I need to talk to you by phone" and offer no information about the nature of your inquiry. I might LOVE to talk to you by phone, but first, I need to know more about why you wnt to talk.

• please do NOT start your message with "Dear Sir." 
  

• please address me by my name, spelled correctly, to prove to me that you actually know who I am and that are writing me specifically because of who I am - not because you bought a list of email addresses. Also, it proves that you aren't a bot. If you don't, if you just address me by an email address, I delete your message without replying.
  

• if you have my email address and are able to email me, then please put an appropriate subject line - I receive more than emails 100 a day, and I delete what looks like spam without reading it.
  

• please remember if you are writing me for my opinion that you are writing me because you have decided I've got some sort of expertise or knowledge, and when you reach out to subject matter experts for their advice or opinion, you need to be prepared that they might say something you do not want to hear.
  

If you are writing in regard to a particular Web page on my site:
PLEASE give me the exact title of the page or the exact URL address - my web site is made up of a few hundred pages, and if you aren't specific, I won't have any idea what you are referring to.

If you want to suggest a link FROM my Web site, please read this linking criteria.

If, after reading all of the above, you're in doubt about whether or not to write, please contact me anyway; the worst that can happen is that I won't reply at all or that I'll say no. I'm grumpy only with those people who don't read the above bulleted text or assume I'm a man or grossly misspell my name.

Form to contact Jayne.

If you want to talk by Skype or Zoom or your own WebEx account, please note that I'm usually on USA West Coast time (same as Los Angeles). View my public calendar if you want to figure out where I am and my availability. 

You can also try sending me a direct message via the MANY online social networks I'm a part of.

I am on WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram- if you have that app too, and I am on your contact list, you can text me.

Or, if you would like to talk via phone, use the form to set up a time to talk.