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For the cost of a fast-food lunch you can buy a cave!

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You can help the NACD in its pursuit of purchasing a cave site for its members today by purchasing your own personal print copy of this masterpiece by Michael Angelo Gagliardi for $100. Please contact Debra Green at 1-888-565-6223 or by e-mail (manager@safecavediving.com) to make your contribution for a print, but act fast, as there were only 25 of these numbered prints made and supply is limited! All proceeds from the sale of these prints will go to the NACD Sustaining Cave Program for the purposes of cave acquisition under the NACD.

For the cost of a fast-food lunch you can buy a cave!

How? By becoming a Sustaining Contributor to the NACD! The NACD must have a steady income to make mortgage payments on acquisitions. We are currently pursuing several properties and need to start raising funds.

The Sustaining Contributor Program offers NACD members and supporters a convenient way to make regular donations in monthly or quarterly installments billed to their credit card. NACD members have already signed up as sustaining contributors by authorizing a monthly charge of $5 to $100 on their Visa, MasterCard, American Express or Discover card. Contributions go directly to the NACD Cave Acquisition Fund and are used to buy caves.

If we can build this program, we can leverage that income with mortgage loans to purchase more caves each year. It only takes 200 people willing to commit $5 per month to cave acquisition. That's about the cost of one lunch at a fast food restaurant.

What sacrifice will you make to ensure that caves are preserved for the future? Can you skip a $5 lunch once a month in order to make a monthly donation to the NACD? Just think: if 100 donors pledged $5 a month, the NACD would receive $500 a month for a total of $6,000 for the year-all for the cost of one lunch each month! Would you eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich one day out of every week to save $5 a week? If those same 100 people did, and they donated $20 a month to the NACD, we would receive $2,000 per month for a total of $24,000 for the year.

Sustaining Contributors and those who make a one-time donation of at least $250.00 will receive an NACD embroidered logo shirt and NACD decal.

All credit card information is kept confidential under the supervision of Debra Green, who manages the program for the NACD. You can end your participation and stop all charges at any time by contacting Debra Green. Contributions can be authorized on a one-time basis, for a limited period (such as 1 year) or indefinitely until cancelled. They can be made monthly, quarterly or annually - whichever you prefer. Use the new Sustaining Form to sign up.

To sign up as a Sustaining Contributor to the NACD, or to make changes to your sustaining contribution, contact NACD Credit Card Officer Debra Green. Or, if you prefer, you can print this Sustaining Form, fill it out and mail it to us at:

NACD, Sustaining Contributor Program, P.O. Box 14492, Gainesville, Florida 32604

May 2007 update:

Our continued thanks to the following for their contributions to the NACD’s efforts to acquire a cave site.  Their long-term consistent commitment is greatly appreciated, as land acquisition can be an expensive and drawn-out process.  The fund balance is steadily growing thanks to these folks and is close to $12,000.

January 2006 Update:

The Sustaining contributor program now holds an excess of $5000.00 in funds.

Now is the time to act. We need your support in purchasing our own dive site / cave. As of January 2006 a committee is being formed. Contact the committee Coordinator for more information.

We would like to sincerely thank the following Program Contributors:

Sustaining Form